Tag: teaching
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A Reflection on CTL’s Supporting 2SLGBTQI+ Students In and Outside the College Classroom
About the author: After 17 years away, Teresa recently returned to OSU as an instructor in the HDFS department. Previously, Teresa taught for five years in the OSU laboratory preschool – Child Development Center/Head Start program – and has more than 20 cumulative years of university-level teaching experience at multiple institutions, including OSU-Cascades, Washington State University Vancouver, WSU Global Campus, and Central…
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Join a Fall ’21 Faculty Learning Community
The Fall ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community, sponsored by CTL and Academic Technology, is gearing up to help you advance your teaching skills. This small, supportive cohort will focus on applying effective practices for skillful use of ed tech and for integrating synchronous and asynchronous learning activities. Participants will explore and develop solutions to self-identified…
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Looking to Fall 2021!! Onwards to Better
Dear OSU faculty and staff, We have missed you. With the arrival of the 2021 academic year a few weeks away, we are looking forward to seeing you our colleagues, and students, again. The excitement of starting is tempered somewhat by the uncertainty of the pandemic but OSU has safeguards in place, policy to guide…
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Career Champions Accepting Applications for New Cohort
By Brenna Gomez About the Author: Brenna Gomez, MFA, is the university innovation alliance fellow in the Office of Academic Affairs. She has 12 years of experience working with first-generation, low-income, students of color in the nonprofit sector, support services in secondary education, and classroom teaching at the college level. Brenna teaches composition, technical writing,…
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Increasing Resilience Through Modular Teaching
By Inara Scott, Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning Excellence, College of Business Like many of us, at the beginning of the summer I was filled with optimism about the fall and the prospect of a post-COVID school term. Vaccination rates in Oregon were going up and masks were coming off. The challenge, it felt,…
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Teaching & Learning Town Hall Series
You are invited to attend a Town Hall Series on Teaching & Learning throughout September, presented by the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU, formerly the Reinvention Collaborative) and partners at Colorado State University. The Town Hall Series will feature Michael Dennin, Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning…
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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…
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Feeling Burnt Out?
About the author: Inara Scott, Ph.D. is Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning Excellence in the OSU College of Business. She also serves as the 2020-21 Provost’s Fellow. As we draw close to the one year mark from when we left campus, I’m hearing more and more from faculty and students who are feeling–to put…
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Join Spring Learning Community: Due Date Extended
There’s still plenty of time to get your proposal in to join the Spring ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community. The due date has been extended to March 8. Professional development funding is provided! The Spring learning community will explore and develop solutions for personal teaching challenges through effective use of educational technology. These challenges may…
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Join the Fall Conversation on Blended Learning!
Wondering how to engage students in blended courses, now or in the future? Academic Technology and CTL invite instructors and tenured/tenure-track faculty who teach Corvallis and Cascades campus courses to join a small, cross-disciplinary faculty cohort and explore blended learning and ed tech during Fall term. The group will have lively, interactive meetings twice a…