When we started an end-of-semester teaching event four years ago, we referred to it simply as a poster session.
The idea was to have instructors who received grants from the Center for Teaching Excellence or who were involved in our various programs create posters and then talk with peers and visitors as they might at a disciplinary conference. In this case, though, the focus was on course transformation and on new ways that instructors had approached student learning.
As the event grew, we decided to call it the Celebration of Teaching, and it has become exactly that.
We didn’t do an official count at the event on Friday, but well more than 100 people attended. There were 54 posters created by instructors involved in Diversity Scholars, the Curriculum Innovation Program, and the Best Practices Institute, and those who received course transformation grants during the year.
Here’s view of the Celebration of Teaching in photographs.