As the Community Engagement Coordinator for the Service-Learning Program (SLP), I am tasked with understanding the needs and experiences of our community. This often happens in one-on-one meetings, but I learn most when our community partners are able to share their experience collectively. This year, I was able to host two community-wide events for this… Read more »
Have you heard of the Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship Program (GTAP)? GTAP is a program developed by the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning to better support graduate students’ career development and teaching interests. GTAP participants engage in CITL-sponsored workshops and learning communities, faculty and peer mentoring, and goal-setting activities. They also spend time creating job… Read more »
I am thrilled to share the 3rd annual CITL summer reading list! These are the books that CITL consultants are reading this summer. Over the summer, CITL and EDS consultants will be reading Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone (Tobin & Behling, 2018). In this book, the authors encourage readers to broaden their view of Universal Design… Read more »
Interested in this topic? There is still time to register for our March 22 SoTL talk on “Helping Students Learn in an Age of Digital Distraction” by Katie Linder from Oregon State University. Register here. If you’ve ever faced a room full of students who seem to be paying more attention to their laptops or… Read more »
This week’s post comes from Carl Weinberg, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of History Things were not looking good for a student pretending to be King Louis XVI. The revolutionary forces had proclaimed that France was now a democratic republic, and the radical Jacobins were calling for the king’s head. Fearing for his life… Read more »
As a white, female, first generation scholar, disciplinarily trained in experimental psychology as well as curriculum and instruction, currently working in faculty development, I am a pragmatist. Rather than holding firmly to a particular theoretical paradigm or research design, I choose the best theory and approach for the question of interest. Currently, this has me… Read more »
