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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.”

This year’s award-winning teachers act as intellectual travel guides, enabling students to take important steps on their individual journeys of self-discovery and academic success.

UVA faculty members in STEM disciplines will have the opportunity to enlist more support for using active-learning methods in their large introductory classes–with the help of undergraduate students.

The outstanding teachers in this group of 13 professors at various points in their careers, plus a medical resident and five graduate teaching assistants, not only share important life lessons, they impart wisdom.

Now in his 47th academic year as a faculty member at the University of Virginia, Ken Elzinga is showing no signs of slowing down.