Hi Friend of the CTE,
With midterm exams underway in many courses, it’s a good time to pause, gather feedback, and reflect on how students are achieving learning goals. Doing a midcourse evaluation or formative classroom observation now can set the stage for success in the second half of the semester. Engage other resources to connect and reflect.
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Upcoming Seminars and Workshops
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Using GenAI and Learning Theory to Center Students in the Classroom |
Thursday, March 12, 11:40 am - 1:00 pm, 320 Laws Hall
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Use GenAI as a pedagogical design partner to build or retrofit a student-centered activity that makes thinking visible and supports meaningful completion. We’ll translate principles from How Learning Works into concrete design moves (e.g., eliciting prior knowledge, contrasting cases for transfer). You’ll leave with a ready-to-use activity and an implementation plan for your course. Lunch will be provided, and laptops are required.
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Teaching First, Technology Second: Designing a Pedagogically Sound Tutor Bot |
Wednesday, April 8, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, 320 Laws Hall
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Design a course- or topic-specific TutorBot (a Gemini Gem) that supports learning without turning into an answer engine. We’ll translate tutoring research into practical routines (e.g., one-question-at-a-time Socratic loop). You’ll build and test your TutorBot with common student scenarios and leave with a deployment plan including the TutorBot prompt and routines. Lunch will be provided, and laptops are required.
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Major Teaching Project Grant Proposal |
Submit a CTE major teaching project grant proposal ($3,000). These grants encourage curricular and pedagogical innovations that result in more engaged and improved student learning. Innovations may be at the course, department, division, and/or university levels.
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FLC Proposal Deadline Extended: |
Are you interested in proposing and facilitating a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) in the 2026-27 academic year? An FLC is a specifically structured learning community of faculty and staff in higher education that includes the goals of building community, engaging in scholarly practice, and developing the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
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What Do You Want to Learn About Your Teaching? |
The FTA was amazing! So much great coaching on everything from how to better structure the mid-course eval for the high volume of students I have to how to interpret the data.
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Boost your teaching impact with two complementary CTE services: a Midcourse Evaluation and Consultation and a Formative Classroom Observation. Receive timely, confidential feedback from a CTE Faculty Teaching Associate to make meaningful instructional adjustments. Demand is high and availability limited—schedule yours now while spots remain.
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Tapping Into AI’s “Pedagogical Power” |
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From saving time planning lessons and communicating with students to promoting high-level instructional goals, this Faculty Focus article discusses how to make GenAI your personal pedagogical assistant.
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Supporting Students as Researchers |
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Learn strategies for meeting students where they are as researchers, modeling professional behaviors, and teaching effective project management skills in this Faculty Focus article.
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Center for Teaching Excellence
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