Faculty
Services and Programs
The
Center for Teaching Effectiveness (CTE) offers many services and programs
to assist faculty in enhancing and improving their teaching skills.
Faculty
services and programs include course and instructional development,
workshops,
seminars, conferences, 398T assistance, and more.
Continue reading below for more information.
The
CTE also offers
services for GSIs (Graduate
Student Instructors).
Course
Instructional Development
Individual
Consultation
Faculty members may receive individual consultation on questions about
their classes or other teaching and learning related matters. Services
include classroom observation, materials review, mid-semester feedback
from students, course instructor survey reviews and analysis, literature
searches on specific topics, and multiple office visits. More
information
Mid-semester
Feedback
Mid-semester is a great time to find out how things are going in your
class. To do this, you may use the feedback
forms that are online and either administer them yourself or the CTE
staff will be happy to assist you. In addition, a CTE consultant can come
to your class to conduct an oral mid-semester feedback session with your
students. The consultant discusses effective and ineffective aspects of
the class with the students and gets their suggestions for improvement.
Then, the consultant and instructor discuss the students' responses and
brainstorm ways to address the students' concerns.
Departmental
Consulting
Consultants also work with departmental administrators to assess
and/or assist with the support needs of faculty and/or GSIs.
398T
Course Assistance
In
1986 The Dean of the Graduate School at UT Austin instituted a course
in each department for the purpose of teaching the graduate
students (who
were being hired as Graduate Student Instructors) strategies
for teaching more effectively. The Center for Teaching Effectiveness
was
called upon to provide support for the faculty members teaching these
courses. Services currently include:
-
Summer
Seminar for 398T Instructors - a one day seminar to share strategies
and techniques for teaching this course,
- course
materials,
-
"Teaching
Pedagogy to Teaching Assistants" - a handbook for the course,
which will be on-line in the near future.
-
1.5
hour workshops on special topics for the students in 398T classes,
and
- critiquing of
microteaching or in-class teaching segments. More
information
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Teaching
Resources
Information
for Faculty
The CTE offers information on improving educational practices, teaching
a university course, and connecting with other educators. More
information
Teaching
Portfolio
A
teaching portfolio consists of samples of a professor's teaching accomplishments
that illustrate how his or her teaching is carried out in the various
venues in which teaching occurs. This Guidebook developed by the CTE goes
through the steps for compiling a teaching portfolio. More
information
Peer
Observation
Peer evaluation of teaching is an essential part of a faculty member's
promotion and tenure file. This Guidebook prepared by CTE reviews key
aspects of peer observation and contains sample forms.
More information
National
Teaching & Learning Forum
Visit this nationally published newsletter available online. More
information
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Colloquia,
Seminars, & Workshops
New
Faculty Teaching/Orientation Seminar
This seminar provides an introduction to the UT campus and the University
rules and regulations regarding teaching. It is also an opportunity to
meet colleagues, learn about UT students, receive ideas for teaching and
learn resources for survival!
Fall 2005 will mark the 25th offering of the New Faculty Teaching/Orientation
Seminar!
The program
for 2004 is available online.
Faculty
Colloquium
All UT faculty are invited to attend a two-day conference on
teaching prior to the Spring semester. The main conference topic differs
each year and is featured in a plenary session and small breakout sessions.
The conference also includes sessions by faculty who are using interesting
teaching innovations in their classes.
The 19th
Annual Faculty Colloquium held January 7-8, 2004, was a great success.
We explored the fun and excitement of the teaching experience.
Departmental
Workshops
Have you ever wanted to provide information about effective teaching to
the faculty members in your department? Would you like to encourage the
faculty members in your department/college to discuss teaching issues?
The staff of the Center are available to conduct 1.5 to 2-hour workshops
for Departments, Colleges or groups of interested faculty members. If
interested contact Dr. Karron Lewis at 232-1776 or kglewis@mail.utexas.edu.
Please call or e-mail at least 3 weeks in advance so we'll be able to
fit you into our schedule.
Special
Interest Workshops (on
demand)
The Center schedules workshops of special interest to the faculty, such
as the half-day conference on "Teaching Large Classes" which was conducted
in 1996. If you have a topic suggestion for a 1/2 day conference/workshop
that you think would be of interest to a number of faculty members, please
send your suggestion to Dr. Karron Lewis at kglewis@mail.utexas.edu.
The
International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) ICED,
formed in Oxford, England in 1993, aims to link national educational development
networks and share practice in higher education across national boundaries.
2004
ICED Conference
Themed "Defining a Profession, Re-defining Actions:
The convergence of goals of University Professors and Faculty Developers",
the June 21-23, 2004, conference took place at the University of Ottawa.
The conference took on the subject of how the scholarship of teaching
is an increasingly important role along with research.
2002
ICED Conference
The 4th World Conference of the International Consortium
of Educational Development was held in Perth, Western Australia, July
3-6, 2002. The conference theme was "Spheres of Influence: Ventures
and Visions in Educational Development".
2000
ICED Conference
The 2000 ICED Conference took place in Bielefeld, Germany with
the theme "Scholarship and Professional Practice in Academic
Development."
1998 ICED Conference
The University of Texas in Austin, Texas hosted the 1998 ICED Conference
which included 200 international visitors from over 20 countries. Proceedings
may be available on-line at a future date.
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Teaching
and Technology
The Center's
companion at DIIA, the Center
for Instructional Technologies, provides technology
workshops for faculty.
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