CTL Workshops

Here you'll  find details on CTL Workshops!

In an ongoing effort to support teachers and learners, the Center for Teaching and Learning heads up many vibrant pedagogical endeavors.  We are proud to offer the"Focus on Student Learning" series (FOSL). The series features monthly presentations by engaging leaders in the world of academic excellence, and mini-workshops guided by professors who have introduced helpful and innovative teaching strategies. These are useful discussions that encourage creative approaches to both old and new ideas in teaching and learning.

SPRING 2009 FOSL SESSIONS

(Click here to learn more about FOSL sesisons planned for this semester! )

The March 2009 FOSL focused on "Creating Lesson Plans for Every Learning Style." Presenters Michelle Baker and John Sheridan shared helpful information on discovering what kinds of learners you have in your classroom and how to best present material to them. These two websites offer questionnaires that reveal how you best learn:

EDUC. professor Becky Mercado also shared a survey she created and gives to students on the first day of class to enhance how she presents material in class, determining group work throughout the semester and to allow for variance on how papers are submitted (online or handed in hard copy). Her suvery can be found HERE.
 
Click HERE to view an informative Powerpoint presentation shared by Counselors Rhonda Jackson and Barbara Byers during our Sept. 2008 discussion on "Dealing With Students In Distress"

Sessions are recorded to DVD and currently available for checkout in both the Scarborough Library and the CTL library. Ask for the specific FOSL title.

  • 09/2007 – Tips for Top Tests
  • 09/2007 – Assessor Refresher
  • 11/2007 – Team-Based Teaching
  • 02/2008 – Students Behaving Badly
  • 03/2008 – 2nd Annual Celebration of Student Learning
  • 08/2008 – Incorporating the Common Reading into your Classes
  • 09/2008 – Recognizing the Signs of Students in Need
  • 10/2008 – Engaging the Millennial Generation

Mini-Grant Funding

Each year the Center for Teaching & Learning awards mini-grants to various individuals and departments throughout the campus community. The recipients make use of the funding in any number of ways that contribute somehow to assessment and student learning within their own work or the work of the department. Click here to view feedback from Dr. Rajeev Rajaram on a teaching conference he attended after being awarded mini-grant funding in the 2005-2006 academic year.
*Minigrant update: Funding has been exhausted for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. We will resume accepting and reviewing minigrant applications for approval after June 30, 2009.
Faculty Development workshops offered in previous semesters:

Fall 2008 FOSL Series