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This year, thanks to a grant from UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence, Dr. Patrice Grimes was able to organize a full-day visit to Montpelier for her “Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary School" students.

UVA Vice President and Provost Liz Magill urged graduate students to take advantage of opportunities offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence.

How do today’s professors teach? This is a question Karen Inkelas with CTE Assistant Director Lindsay Wheeler and other colleagues are trying to answer. They're creating a web-based teaching observation tool to document what actually happens in college classrooms at UVA.

SEAS Educational Strategies Coordinator Michael Redwine, Education Associate Professor Karen Inkelas, and CTE Assistant Director Lindsay Wheeler are developing a “suite of digital tools designed to improve college teaching and student learning.”

In this Tea for Teaching episode, CTE Assistant Director Lindsay Wheeler and Postdoctoral Research Associate Hannah Sturtevant join the podcast hosts to discuss potential interventions to overcome the barriers to adopting effective teaching practices.

Nursing faculty Jenn Kastello, Barb Reyna, Sarah Craig, Maureen Metzger and Tomkea Dowling at a recent event at the Center for Teaching Excellence, at which they were celebrated.

CTE Assistant Director Lindsay Wheeler and Postdoctoral Research Associate Hannah Sturtevant are interviewed about their research, which explores the barriers to using innovative teaching practices. Wheeler and Sturtevant explain their findings and possible solutions.

Some younger faculty credit the Course Design Institute, run by UVA’s Center for Teaching Excellence, with helping them develop more interactive teaching methods, even in large lecture courses.

CTE Assistant Director Lindsay Wheeler receives a $141,173 grant from the Jefferson Trust to develop tools to improve instructors' teaching and transform student experiences.

The fund supports endowed professorships and helps the University recruit and retain the very best faculty. President Jim Ryan described the fund as “critical to our current and future success.”

With the gift, the center can innovate new programs and help more members of the University’s teaching community “become the teachers they want to be.”

CTE Director Michael Palmer works to help faculty design deeply memorable moments in class through an activity called “the dream exercise.”