Tag: classroom

  • Congratulations and Thank You!

    The Center for Teaching and Learning congratulates Oregon State University’s record 7,391 graduates and expresses deep appreciation to our faculty who have skillfully taught, nurtured, guided and mentored their students through the unprecedented challenges of the past year. Looking ahead, see the newly updated Teaching Faculty website and the summer and early fall Faculty Training…

  • Call for Applications – Inclusive Excellence@OSU 2021 Cohort

    Each year IE@OSU welcomes STEM faculty from OSU, Linn-Benton, and Lane Community Colleges to participate in a year-long fellowship. Inclusive Excellence@OSU seeks to transform STEM education by creating a thriving community of peers who are invested in inclusive excellence in STEM, challenging fellows to develop equity and justice-oriented mindsets, and exploring pedagogical practices that fellows can implement…

  • Start the New Term Strong: Tips from Fall and Psychological Science.

    [This blog post is based on a piece published in The Teaching Professor by Regan A. R. Gurung. You are free to modify it to share with your students. The original post can be found here: https://www.teachingprofessor.com/covid-19/adapting-for-2021-a-students-guide/ ] Most New Year’s resolutions revolve around getting more active, improving what you eat, or perhaps even cutting…

  • CTL Reaches out to OSU Faculty in Eastern Oregon

    The faculty of OSU’s Agriculture and Natural Resource Program at Eastern Oregon University participated in a CTL workshop on Blended, Flipped and Hybrid Course Design and Teaching. The Agriculture and Natural Resources Program is a long-standing cooperative relationship between EOU and OSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences to serve students, communities and industries of eastern Oregon…

  • Are Visual Learners Disadvantaged in Classrooms? More on Learning Style Myths

    “I am a very visual learner so I do not learn well in classes with a lot of lecture.” After having taught for over 25 years I hear variations of that comment a lot. In conversations with students I have heard a range of complaints. Teachers who only use one teaching style. Teachers who do…