Center for Teaching Excellence
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Curriculum Innovation Program

CTE's Curriculum Innovation Program is an opportunity for a team of faculty from a department to collaborate on transforming a key part of their curriculum to improve student learning and success. Selected teams will be awarded two-year grants totaling $10,000; will receive consultation, guidance and support from CTE throughout the duration of the project; and will join a community of colleagues from other departments for idea exchange and problem solving.  Application details can be found here.

Interested department members are encouraged, but not required, to attend one of two workshops on developing a Curriculum Innovation Proposal, held at CTE in 135 Budig Hall at 10-11 AM on November 19, and 2-3 PM on November 20. Important dates:

  • Wednesday, December 4, 2019 (end of business): Applications due
  • Friday, December 20, 2019: Departments notified of awards
  • Mid-January 2020: Funds awarded
  • January 2020 through December 2021: Work on project, assess impact on student learning
  • Fall 2021: Evaluate impact on students and other outcomes
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GTA Flex and Online Teaching Program

GTAs: The link to the application form for the GTA Flex and Online Teaching Program is now available. It can be accessed here. 

Events
Flex Teaching

CTE has created a website for helping faculty create flexible courses that can shift between in-person and online. Visit the Flex Teaching site.

Bloom's Sixth, the CTE blog

40 days (and 40 nights?) of teaching in confinement: A diary

Making iPad videos, using VoiceThread, and living a life of non sequiturs

A place for community during isolation from campus

Helping students find their way through a fog of uncertainty online

To give your online class a bit of campus feel, add a virtual whistle

News & Notes

KU Physics Department faculty design an introductory, calculus-based physics course that uses an "energy-first curriculum" to improve student learning. 

Carol Holstead, Journalism & Mass Communications, shares strategies for improving teaching, starting with a back-to-the-basics approach for names, emails, feedback, and office hours. 

Tony Rosenthal, History, discusses the use of new teaching methodologies in a urban history course in his article, "Sin Cities: From History to Sociology to Urban History, an Interdisciplinary Journey".

Harvard University scholars focus on "Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom".

The American Sociological Association calls for reconsideration of student teaching evaluations. Click here for official statement. 

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