News from CTL

Do you work hard at continuously improving your teaching? Interested in documenting your work with a nationally-recognized teaching credential? The University of Texas System is awarding grants for 30 full-time instructors to participate in the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Effective Teaching Practices course. This year-long professionally facilitated asynchronous course gives you the opportunity to learn about, implement, and reflect on research-based teaching practices in the courses you are teaching in real time.

https://themoth.org/The Center for Teaching and Learning will hold an event to center personal experience and anecdote as a highly effective strategy to share knowledge.

We hope spring break provided an opportunity to recharge in your favorite ways. Graduate Teaching Showcase is this Friday, and all are invited to hear the six selected instructors virtually present their stories. In addition, there are two more GrantED opportunities to hear from previous grant recipients. As a reminder, ILC and TIG proposals are due April 3.

March is the month we celebrate the contributions of graduate student instructors at the Graduate Teaching Showcase as well as a new cohort of Provost's Teaching Fellows. In addition, see below for experiential and blended learning opportunities this month. Finally, there are two grant programs that provide funds to support your instructional goals. We continue to make progress on steps towards our name change: Center for Teaching and Learning! Stay tuned.

The Provost's Teaching Fellows are excited to announce the members of the 2022 PTF Cohort who were selected from a competitive group of applicants. The Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs offered support for this year’s Provost’s Teaching Fellows cohort to empower UT’s best and brightest professional teaching faculty to create cultures of change in their departments and colleges.

We are reflecting on the guiding messages sent in January from the Provost and our Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) colleagues. While we have passed this initial phase of spring semester, many principles and strategies are applicable to the ongoing work of inclusive teaching and learning.

We have begun the process of changing our name to Center for Teaching and Learning! You can read more about it in Director Molly Hatcher's recent message to instructors. This item is also discussed in Dean Mark Smith's announcement of the expanding Academic Affairs portfolio. Thanks for your patience while we refresh our branding and content.

Happy New Year! "Normal" continues to be elusive, but we are refreshed and ready to learn with you this spring. Read on to see all the FIC has to offer.

This past summer, thirteen graduate students from the College of Liberal Arts successfully completed the Inclusive Course Design Institute, a pilot program developed by the Graduate Student Development program at the Faculty Innovation Center to support AIs who were designing a course from the ground up for the first time. Graduate students who completed the Institute received a stipend of $100, generously provided by the College of Liberal Arts.