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This Week for Faculty: Get Ready for Summer B!
Join us for synchronous sessions the week of June 21-25, just in time for the start of Summer B!
This Week for Graduate Students: Apply now for 2021-22 CTL Fellowships!
The CTL is now accepting applications for Teaching Observation Fellows and Teaching Assessment Fellows.
This Week for Faculty: Faculty Book Discussion Group: Radical Hope
Could your classes use more hope after a year of teaching and learning during a pandemic? Are you looking to prepare for your fall semester among a community of like-minded colleagues? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then join the CTL this summer for a discussion of Kevin Gannon’s Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto.
This Week for Graduate Students: Last Week to Apply! Transforming Your Research Into Teaching Seminar
The Transforming Your Research Into Teaching (TYRIT) seminar is an online intensive that will help you create an advanced course based on your disciplinary research.
This Week for Graduate Students: Summer 2021 Book Club: Cheating Lessons
What motivates students to cheat and how can we prevent cheating? Join us every other week, starting Wednesday, May 19th, for this summer’s CTLgrads Bookclub where we will read Cheating Lessons (2013) by James Lang, PhD, and dig into the research on student learning, memory, attention, and motivation and what it can tell us about why students cheat.
This Week for Faculty: Active Learning Institute | Apply Today!
Looking for ways to increase student engagement in your face-to-face or online classroom? Transform your courses into environments for participatory learning with the CTL!
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