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About
Mission:
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning is to enhance teaching and learning by providing an environment and resources to:
- Create opportunities for faculty and staff to enhance teaching and learning skills,
- Promote cross-discipline discussion and collaboration, sustain an interactive community of faculty and staff learners,
- Encourage awareness of issues that affect both the academic community and its disciplines, and
- Help faculty and staff maintain currency in their chosen fields.
CTL People
- In Center: Luanne Fose, Joe Grimes, Patrick Kammermeyer, Tonia Malone, Laurie Tennant, and Ann Wilenius.
- CTL Associates: Walt Bremer (Associate Director), Roberta Herter, Sean Hurley, Al Liddicoat, Don Maas, Pat McQuaid, Marnie Petray, Deborah Wilhelm.
- CTL Volunteers: About 40–50 each year.
Past CTL Activities:
- Workshops and Courses (Many are filled with waiting list for some)
- Teaching Effective Class
- Teaching Well Workshops
- Special Workshops (diversity, curriculum development, advising, etc.)
- WINGED (Reading, Synthesis, and Writing) Workshops
- Newer Faculty Fall Workshop and Learning Communities
- Preface Program
- Newer Faculty (Orientation Workshop, Fall BBQ/Football Game, Learning Community, Breakfasts/Lunches with President, and Personal Consultation)
- One-on-one consultation with faculty members to assist them to enhance their teaching. This includes classroom visitations.
- Community Based Learning (Service Learning)
- Enhancement of teaching and learning through the use of technology.
- Teaching/Learning with Technology Class
- Course transformation to online/hybrid course (Two courses during the summer.)
- CSU
- Exchanges: The on-line journal of teaching and learning in the CSU http://www.exchangesjournal.org/
- Work with CSU on Academic Technology Initiatives (Member of Academic Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC)). ATAC has approved a comprehensive proposal for faculty development.
- President of Faculty Development Council (FDC)
- Grants
- Center for Teaching and Learning Grant Program
- Third year of program
- Seven results from the 2005-2006 program were presented to Deans’ Council. The work done was amazing.
- Excellent set of 13 are in progress
- CSU Faculty Grant Programs (State Faculty Support Grant, Curriculum Enhancement, Community Based Learning, and Information Competency)
- CSU Forgivable Loan Program
- Faculty groups discuss methodologies for enhancing teaching and learning. CTL is assisting these groups.
- Communication
- World Wide Web (Faculty Page [CTL is responsible for Content]; CTL Page [CTL is responsible for Content and Design])
- Quarterly Newsletter
- Email - Important Information ( In particular, an E-tip each month)
- Flyers
Plans for 2007-2008:
- Continue with the programs of the past
- CTL will move to Honors Program area on the second floor during fall 2006
- Greater integration with Learning Commons with the CTL moving to the second floor in the near future
- Greater integration of faculty support efforts of ITS, Library, and CTL with Luanne Fose, Patrick Kamermeyer, and Tonia Malone to the second floor in the CTL
- Advance the appropriate Use of Technology in Teaching/Learning
- Support faculty in planning and implementing a course enhancement
- Consider the enabling a course enhancement through the use of technology
- Initiative addressing online and hybrid/blended course development
- Work with Instructional Advisory Committee on Recommendations
- Collaboration
- Learning Spaces
- Faculty Development
- Information Security
- Instruction Technology Access for Persons with Disability and Security
- Others as Appropriate
Enhance faculty development support for new tenure track faculty
- Adapting
- Linguistics
- Appropriate use of pedagogy and enabling the pedagogy with technology as appropriate
- More learning communities
- More aggressive consultation
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