So often, as we teach and reteach the same courses, we accidentally fall into a pattern of repetition. Certainly, for those of us who have taught the same courses with the same student learning outcomes, we have found the activities that work, dismissed the ones that don’t, and only overhaul a course when it becomes… Read more »
Professional Development
Quick Tip: Using Summer Planning for Fall Semester
The summer, while great for decompressing from the spring semester, is also an amazing opportunity to begin planning for the fall semester! Our responsibilities during peak times can often feel overwhelming, so what better way to relieve pressure from ourselves than to use the summer to complete some of the items on our to-do lists?… Read more »
Graduate Students — Prepare to Teach at IUB
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 »
6th Annual CITL Summer Reading List
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 »
Supporting Your Post-Coursework Graduate Students
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 »
For Teaching Faculty: Preparing for Promotion
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 »