Is there a specific aspect of your teaching you would like to work on? Do you have a plan of action for achieving your goal? Wherever you are in your development as a teacher, it is important to have goals and a plan for how you might accomplish them and the CITL is here to… Read more »
Increasingly, conversations around campus and Zoom have included some sort of reference to fatigue. It seems to be an amorphous discussion that circles the shared feeling rather than an explicit discussion of the current situation and strategies to address the fatigue. In one of these recent conversations with a colleague, he stated that he was… Read more »
This week’s blog was written by Sean Sidky, the WTS Dissertation Group graduate assistant. For many graduate students who have completed the coursework stage of their degrees, the disruptions and challenges to their research trajectories due to the ongoing pandemic have been insurmountable. Continuing travel restrictions, for example, make it difficult or impossible to access… Read more »
This post is by Lisa Kurz, Cassie Coble, Allen Davis, J Duncan, Olga Kalentzidou, Cody Kirkpatrick, Margaret Lion, and Katie Metz In January the CITL offered a series of webinars (facilitated by the co-authors of this blog post) on career development for teaching faculty, covering topics such as writing a teaching statement, summarizing student evaluation… Read more »
When quarantine started in March, I thought about throwing my beloved planner into the garbage. It seemed like plan after plan was cancelled and I was facing a wide-open schedule of nothing. (Cue chirping crickets and a tumbleweed blowing by.) However, as our world quickly transitioned online, it didn’t take long for many of our… Read more »
CITL would like to announce some good news for non-tenure track faculty: we have created a new position, a Principal Instructional Consultant for Non-Tenure Track Development. Funding for the position was provided by the Provost as a way of recognizing the growing importance of providing support and programming tailored to the professional needs of non-tenure… Read more »