The Board of Visitors and Student Life Committee approve the establishment of the Barbara Fried Directorship of the Center for Teaching Excellence. The endowment is set to "provide impactful resources that will allow faculty members to teach in increasingly innovative and effective ways."
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Students must pass INST 3150 to become an instructor of a CavEd course. CTE Director Michael Palmer teaches that seminar, which aims to help undergraduate students learn how to be effective teachers.
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The Contemplative Sciences Center and Center for Teaching Excellence piloted the week-long Contemplative Institute for Teaching and Learning during Summer 2021. Faculty participants share how this experience impacted their personal and professional lives this semester.
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Professor Joe Fore joined UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence as a 2021-22 Faculty Fellow in July.
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PhD Student Janet Lawler shares more about why she decided to apply for the internship and what she hopes to get out of the experience.
This 3Cavaliers research project will create a suite of digital tools to observe and measure college teaching that documents frequency and duration of classroom activities but does not require subject matter expertise.
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Introducing our newest CTE Faculty Fellows: Marina Escámez Ballesta (Spanish), Joe Fore (Law), and Ann Reimers (Engineering).
Engineering Ph.D. Bethany Gordon developed the Engineering Social Justice course during the Center for Teaching Excellence's Course Design Institute. The course focuses on helping students understand not only why, but how to make social justice part of their future engineering designs.
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After receiving a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, WTJU is developing a jazz curriculum with the help of the Center for Teaching Excellence.
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The Center for Teaching Excellence will support WTJU in creating an online jazz history curriculum aimed at high school and early college students.
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A PhD Plus intern at the Center for Teaching Excellence during the 2020-21 academic year, Christina Boltsi talks about her time in the position supporting professional development programs for graduate students.
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From the School of Data Science to the Department of Drama, the CTE is engaging in curriculum design work with eight different units across Grounds. We announce the next grant cohort and also speak with a 2020 recipient that is making great strides toward completing their curriculum redesign.
