CTELD Events and Programs
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
The Center for Teaching Excellence and Leadership Development is open to all faculty and provides opportunities for people to come together in various venues to talk about teaching and discover ways to improve their teaching effectiveness. To find out about upcoming events look for postings on the Central Bulletin or come to this web site. The Center for Teaching Excellence and Leadership Development Resource Center is located in 102 Barnard. Books and other materials on pedagogy, program assessment and the scholarship of teaching and learning are available for loan.
Faculty Development Workshops
| Rae Shipke | Writing Across the Curriculum | Sept. 20, 2006 12:00-1:00 | Clock Tower 134, Student Center |
| Mitchell Charkiewicz | Avian Bird Flu: Seeds for Learning | Oct. 25, 2006 12:00-1:30 | Camp Room 121, Student Center |
| David Fearon | Helping Learners Make Friends with Concepts | Nov. 14, 2006 12:30-2:00 | Clock Tower 134, Student Center |
Teachers Forum Lunch Series
The lunch series offers a forum for faculty to discuss their teaching experiences or particular challenges that they overcame in the classroom.
| Zbigniew Prusak | Engaging Students to do Hard Work: Expectations and Facilitation | Sept. 26, 2006 | 12:30-1:30 | Clock Tower 134, Student Center |
| Carl Lovitt | Building a Community of Learners | Oct. 11, 2006 | 12:00-1:00 | Founder's Hall Davidson |
| Ken Weiss | The Journal to Academic Integrity | Oct. 31, 2006 | 12:30-1:30 | Blue and White Room, Student Center |
| James Mulrooney and Jason Jones | Panel on Learning Communities Initiative | Nov. 28, 2006 | 12:30-1:30 | Clock Tower 134 , Student Center |
For more information, suggestions, or to volunteer to offer a talk contact Maria Roxas.
CTELD Book Club
Faculty read and discuss a selected book over the course of a semester for its implications to their teaching.
The book for this semester is Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind, Gerald Graff, 2004
| Parts I and II | Oct. 6, 2006 | 1:00-2:00 | Room 1849, Second floor, Student Center |
| Parts III and IV | Nov. 17, 2006 | 1:00-2:00 | Blue and White Room, Student Center |
For more information, suggestions, or question contact Laura Levine
Leadership Development
Reupholstering the Chair Forum
Reception: Welcome to the New Chairs and the Provost October 3, 2006 3:00-5:00 Bellin Gallery, Student Center
Excellence in Teaching Award Celebration
Nov. 3, 2006 2:00 - 4:00 Founders Hall Davidson
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) initiatives
CCSU's core membership in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Leadership Cluster of CT 2 (Critical Thinking for Civic Thinking) will promote SoTL efforts to improve student learning in the sciences. Involved faculty will assess the structures of learning objectives in the development of critical thinking and civic thinking. More information on CT 2 is available at the Carnegie Foundation's CASTL cluster website. For more information on the CASTL Program contact Stephen Adair.