Early Career Teaching Program 2009-10

The Early Career Teaching Program is designed to develop and enhance teaching skills and establish a foundation for creative and engaging teaching. Participants work closely with distinguished teachers to explore a range of teaching topics through workshops, small group discussions, and individual activities. Faculty learns how to be more efficient and effective teachers while sharing and developing new ideas for use in their classrooms.

Teaching Seminars and Learning Communities

Making a Difference: Designing Courses to Improve Student Learning and Teacher Satisfaction

Rather than move on alone in addressing SLOs, SDOs, LEs and accreditation requirements, we invite you to join with a small group of colleagues to revise or plan courses. You will focus on (1) incorporating the distinctive educational impact you would like your courses and your teaching to have on your students' learning; and (2) selecting the teaching, learning and evaluation strategies appropriate for learning, development and communication objectives you write.

Each small group will meet with a CTL facilitator for four work-oriented course design sessions supplemented by two short personalized consultations. Seminar participants will receive a small honorarium, the book Significant Learning, and food.

Completed applications due to CTL by September 11, 2009. Click here to apply.

Lunch with a Great Teacher!

Observe a master teacher conduct a class and then join her or him for lunch to discuss the art of teaching. Through the Lunch with a Great Teacher! program, CTL will connect full-time University teachers with award-winning teachers and pay for lunch.

Improving Lecture Based Teaching and Learning - Spring Semester 2010

Expand your current knowledge and skills in the area of lecture-based teaching and learning. By engaging regularly in inquiry-based peer group discussion, classroom observations and individual consultations you will unpack ideas about, possibilities for, development of and learning in lecture-based courses.

If you're interested in joining this learning community, please contact Ilene Alexander at alexa032@umn.edu or 612-624-6507. You may also request an individual consultation about creating great lecture-based courses.

Multicultural Teaching and Learning - Spring Semester 2010

Extend your everyday instructional practices – from labs to lecture halls to discussion seminars across the disciplines – by exploring multicultural teaching and learning practices that foster excellence in learning for a diverse array of students. This learning community will make use of observations of classroom teaching, individual consultations and a "learning circle" discussion model to address participant driven teaching queries.

To learn more about this learning community, please contact Ilene Alexander at alexa032@umn.edu or 612-624-6507. You may also request an individual consultation about multicultural teaching and learning.

Consultation Service

Through the Consultation Service, faculty may request one-to-one, confidential consultations at any time during the academic year. Experienced consultants offer practical guidance for both immediate and long-term teaching needs. Common topics for early career faculty include syllabus development, classroom management, and improving student ratings of teaching.