
CETL Teaching Intensive: Designing for Inclusive and Accessible Learning
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Teaching Intensive: Designing for Inclusive and Accessible Learning What: The CETL is pleased to announce the 2024 January teaching intensive, which will focus on inclusive teaching practices, including creating high-structure courses and applying principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to design accessible learning activities and assessments.

Productive Pathways to Promotion: Spring Sessions
The CETL Early Career Faculty program, Productive Pathways to Promotion, will continue into spring 2024 with monthly working sessions for new and early career full-time faculty. See below for session details. Registration links will be provided as the upcoming session dates approach. Productive Pathways Session #5: Scholarly and Creative Works (Being Intentional) Learn strategies

Fall 2023 CETL Workshops
CETL Workshop Schedule The CETL hosts a variety of workshops and other learning activities throughout the year. Below you will find a listing of upcoming sessions with details and registration links. Some of these will be repeated during the spring term. Please reach out to us if there is a topic you’d like to see

Teaching Tips for the Week of September 25, 2023
In case you missed it… we’re revisiting a post from earlier this year about the importance of feedback, mid-term check-ins with your students, and creating an engaging classroom. Providing Meaningful & Effective Feedback One of the most important factors leading to students’ academic growth is the quality of feedback they receive from their instructors. Woolf

New Early Career Faculty Program Launching in October
New Series for Early Career Faculty: Productive Pathways to Promotion To compliment your college/school mentoring program and events sponsored by the Office of Faculty Advancement, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is excited to announce its year-long program and community specifically designed to support early career, tenure-track (TT) and non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty. Clear

Teaching Tips for the Week of September 18, 2023
The Power of Prediction: Activating Prior Knowledge to Boost Learning In a traditional course structure, we deliver information through readings, lectures, and other instructional activities. Students are then asked to practice the skills or application of information we’ve provided by answering questions or solving problems. What would happen if we asked students to answer these

Teaching Tips for the Week of September 11, 2023
Strategies for Success: Tips to Share with Students As the fall term gets underway, now is the time for students to learn about and implement realistic, evidence-based strategies for their academic success. In their article, Optimizing Learning in College: Tips from Cognitive Psychology, the authors provide several high-impact strategies to help students better manage their

Teaching Tips for the Week of August 28, 2023
Calming Anxiety and Inspire Students: First Day Strategies Do you remember how you felt on your first day of college? For most of us, this was a time of great excitement and anticipation – perhaps a chance to live away from home, make new friends, and explore interesting ideas and diverse perspectives that would help

Opportunities for Professional Development with the CETL
CETL Events & Programs As we look forward to the start of the fall term, the CETL team is excited to announce our 2023-2024 programming. These sessions have been designed with the success of both our faculty and students in mind. Our goal is to provide faculty with practical strategies that can be implemented in

Teaching Tip for the Week of August 7, 2023
10 Tips for Fostering Inclusive Learning Environments Terms such as inclusivity, diversity, belonging, and equity come up frequently in education research and literature these days, but what do they actually mean in the context of teaching? As we begin to consider how we can be more inclusive in our teaching practices, it is important to