News from CTL

The Center for Teaching and Learning eagerly returns to our Inclusive Teaching and Learning Symposium where we invite you to Pause for Pedagogy. This year’s event will focus on promoting inclusive and transformative pedagogy through panels and communities of practice. Submit your proposal by October 10.

We hope the start of the semester is progressing with abundant amounts of curiosity, collaboration, and fresh insight. As always, contact us if we can support your teaching and learning journey.

We hope your summer has included opportunities to reflect and recharge. With the calendar turning to August, we wanted to share resources that instructors and staff can use to prepare for the upcoming semester. Contact Us if we can support your preparations for fall.

We hope your summer is off to a great start with opportunities to recharge. CTL team members are wrapping up spring semester, planning for next year, and starting some times away. Use our Contact Us form if we can support your current courses or preparations for fall.

Congratulations to our first cohort of Fractalizing Pedagogy Fellows! We look forward to supporting the developing community of instructors to support each other with the goal to cultivate more accessible learning spaces.

This was a group of 30 instructors who participated in the Association of College and University Educator’s course to earn a nationally recognized certificate in Effective Teaching Practices.

The end of the spring semester is near. We are on the sidelines cheering you on as you get close to the finish line! In our May newsletter, we celebrate many milestones and achievements of our teaching and learning colleagues, as well as share out some resources and upcoming events available to you as the semester comes to a close.

The CTL's first-ever Came to Listen, a nod to The Moth, took place on April 22, 2022. This storytelling event was designed to foster and bolster teaching and learning amongst instructors.

Lessons learned from solving puzzles in escape rooms, teaching in community schools and prisons, and leading parties at zoos were just some of the stories shared at the 6th annual Graduate Teaching Showcase presented by the Center for Teaching and Learning in partnership with the Graduate School and UT Libraries.

In Spring 2021 the OER Working Group successfully applied for a Center for Teaching & Learning Instructor Learning Community (ILC) grant. Working group members Ashley Morrison, Hannah Chapman Tripp, and Lydia Fletcher created the content and facilitated the ILC, which focused on open educational resources (or OER) -- learning materials that carry open licenses and allow anyone to freely read, share, and modify them -- and how adapting courses to incorporate OER can enhance inclusivity in classrooms.