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Center for Teaching and Learning

The University of Delaware has a strong commitment to student and faculty engagement and support in effective teaching. In 1975, the Faculty Senate established the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) which promotes the enhancement of learning and teaching at the University. CTL and the Office of Educational Assessment (OEA) have been joined programmatically under the new title: Center for Teaching & Assessment of Learning (CTAL).

CTL's primary goals are:

Support the instructional improvement efforts of UD's teaching community.
Facilitate the implementation of programs and activities that enrich and improve teaching and learning.
Promote active engagement and innovation in teaching and learning.
Cultivate an institutional climate that values, rewards, sustains and renews excellence in teaching and learning.
Serve as a clearinghouse on teaching and learning in higher education.

CTL supports faculty, administrators, graduate students, and staff in their instructional activities and provides a range of instructional services to help all members of UD's teaching community enhance the teaching and learning process.

Call for Nominations - K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

Deadline for Receipt of Materials: October 1, 2012

The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning; and who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others.The award honors the work of K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Please go to the K. Patricia Cross page of AAC&U's Web site for complete information.

Contact Information
Please contact Suzanne Hyers at hyers@aacu.org or 202.387.3760 with any questions.

Past UD Winners
Cara Robinson, School of Public Policy & Administration, 2010 (link to UDaily article)
Amy Cass, Sociology & Criminal Justice, 2007 (link to UDaily article)

Teaching at UD: Session for Faculty New to UD

This pre-Fall semester session is designed to support you as a faculty member, help ease your transition into your teaching position, answer your questiosn, and introduce you to instructional resources. In this interactive setting you will network with faculty from other disciplines, discusse teaching practices, and have a sounding board for ideas and questions.

The session will take place on Friday, August 24th, from 2-6pm at the Courtyard Marriott at UD.

Click HERE to register by August 17. See Agenda (pdf).

Doctoral students attend National Conference on Teaching

The 10 University of Delaware doctoral students who were awarded competitive travel grants to attend the annual Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching and Learning held in Bethesda, Md., May 31-June 3, are now putting the new instructional ideas they have learned into practice. The students will share what they have learned with the larger University teaching community by serving as TA Conference Fellows and/or facilitating sessions in their respective departments.

Read the full UDaily article HERE.

The Teaching Professor: Learning from Our Mistakes

The Teaching Professor, June, discusses the idea of a learning from our mistakes. The article provides references for several articles about faculty who have learned from their mistakes in teaching and advocates for all faculty to reflect and improve on their teaching.

Applications Invited by June 18: Ph.D. and Postdoc Career Prep

This one-week Academic Career Preparation Summer Institute, July 23-27, 2012 is designed to prepare doctoral students and postdocs for the academic career path. The Institute will focus on two primary goals (1) preparation for the academic job search process, and (2) acculturation and successful transition into the first years of an academic appointment. The Institute will occur from 9:00a.m. - 3:30p.m. in Room 109, Memorial Hall.

The institute is co-sponsored by CTAL, Career Services, and the Office of Graduate and Professional Education in support of UD doctoral candidates and postdocs who pursue faculty careers.

Details and application information can be found here. UDaily, June 5, 2012
Application deadline: Monday, June 18, 2012.

The Teaching Professor: The Reflective Final

The Teaching Professor, May, discusses the idea of a relective final and how it can promote higher ordered student learning.