This Week for Faculty: Celebration of Teaching & Learning This Week; Funding Opportunities

Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium Starts Today!

The Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning invite the Columbia community to the annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium from March 15–17, 2021. The Symposium will showcase imaginative and effective teaching initiatives at Columbia during this unprecedented year. It’s not too late to register!

Funding Opportunities for Innovative Teaching and Learning

2021 Provost’s SOLER Seed Grants (PSSG) Information Session

Join us for a virtual panel with past Provost’s SOLER Seed Grants (PSSG) faculty awardees Brent Stockwell, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Alfredo Spagna, Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience & Behavior. The two faculty members will share how they are collaborating with the Science Of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER) to perform Discipline-Based Education Research – a subfield of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning driven by formal research methodologies – in their courses. The panel will be moderated by Adam Brown, SOLER Program Director, and will include a Q&A session. Register today!

Date and Time: April 15, 12:00pm-1:00pm

Provost Teaching and Learning Grants 

The Office of the Provost provides funding opportunities of up to $25,000 for faculty looking to integrate new educational methods and technologies into their classrooms and learning environments. Recipients receive logistical, organizational, and instructional support from the CTL. Proposals for 2021 Office of the Provost Teaching and Learning Grants are due April 19, 2021.

Schedule a consultation with the CTL to discuss your proposals. Contact us at ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu. 

Voices of Hybrid & Online Teaching and Learning: Spotlights

Find inspiration and submit your voice

Denise Cruz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature shows how she transformed the online lectures in her Asian American Literature course to maximize student engagement.

Martina Pavlicova, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, and Cale N. Basaraba, Instructor in Biostatistics, PhD Student in Epidemiology discuss how they worked with the CTL to redesign the course Applied Regression I into a hybrid model to promote student learning, and share how this work greatly eased the transition of the course into an entirely online format when the pandemic hit.

Diana Rose Newby, Graduate Student in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, and a consultant in the Columbia College Writing Center, shares two ways that she has adapted her consultation work with student-writers to an online format.

Upcoming Events

• Reading Group: Anti-Racist Pedagogy Theory and Practice; March 25, 3:00pm-4:15pm

• Assessment Tune-Up for RFP Applicants; March 25, 12:00-1:15pm

• Assessment and Grading Online with Columbia Tools; March 30, 10:00am-11:15am

Check the CTL events calendar for other upcoming events.