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 Future Professoriate Program (FPP)
FPP Seminars
The FPP Seminars are designed to support an expanding nucleus of professors committed to preparing advanced graduate students for teaching careers, and to assist those professors in implementing the project in their disciplines. The seminars are led both by nationally renowned experts and by Syracuse professors recognized for their success in teaching and TA supervision. The initial seminar is an intensive three-day workshop held in May at the university's Minnowbrook Conference Center in the Adirondack Mountains. It is followed by a sequence of two-hour seminars held on campus during the academic year.
Although a variety of topics are covered, all the seminars share three objectives related to improving the preparation of graduate students for college teaching careers:
- to establish an interdisciplinary faculty forum for the discussion of common approaches and disciplinary differences
- to provide professors with specific strategies and methods for mentoring prospective teachers
- to foster in each department a heightened presence of faculty members to whom graduate students can turn for guidance on issues of pedagogical theory and practice
These seminars imply a long-term investment in the Syracuse faculty and in academia as a whole. Professors better prepared to mentor their current graduate students can permanently alter the future of higher education, since the graduate students they mentor can in turn influence yet another generation of students, thus creating an ever-expanding national effect.
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