The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) strives to connect the TU community through collaboration, consultations, workshops, and professional development activities. The CITL team provides instructors with faculty development activities, webinars, and workshops while supporting and enhancing teaching and learning through the use of best practices, innovative delivery methods, digital resources, instructional technologies, and other strategies.
| Event | Description | Date / Register |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty Success 101 | This is an open Zoom session with an overview of how to navigate the Faculty Success site to record your service, scholarship, and teaching accomplishments. Topics covered will include how to create and edit a CV and where to find the Professional Development Plan template. The remainder of the hour will be dedicated to specific questions participants may have. Whether you haven’t used the tool in a while or are brand new, feel free to come at the start of the hour or just pop in with a question. You’ll get a calendar invite with Zoom link when you register. | Date & Time: Thursday, February 22nd at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Location: Zoom Register here. |
| Advising 101 | This in-person session will cover a review of the technology a faculty advisor may need to best advise students. It will cover Self-Service including academic plans, what-if plans, and other student information views accessible to each advisor. It will also cover general academic policy including degree completion requirements, special enrollment procedures (i.e. online course registration and term credit hour overload), internship application procedures, and graduation application. | Date & Time: Wednesday, March 13th at 2 p.m. Location: Main 13 Register here. |
| Closing the Loop | This open Zoom session will be directed at administrators who write their department/school’s OA reports and need to “close the loop.” It will include recommended processes for Closing the Loop most efficiently and ideas on how to promote faculty engagement in the process. Examples will be provided. You’ll get a calendar invite with Zoom link when you register. |
Date & Time: Thursday, March 21st at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Location: Zoom Register here. |
| Meet Mike | For faculty interested in AI, Mike McKay is full-time on-site now, and he is eager to get to know faculty and talk about AI. His interests include creating a Think Tank with interested faculty. Stop in Franks before the March faculty meeting and get to know Mike. There might be popcorn. You’ll get a calendar invite with Zoom link when you register. | Date & Time: Wednesday, March 27th at 2:30 p.m. Location: Franks 122 Register here. |
| Taskstream 101 | This is an open Zoom session with a brief overview (10 minutes) of where to access Outcomes Assessment assignments in your Moodle shell, how to use Taskstream, and how to use the rubric. The remainder of the hour will be dedicated to specific questions participants may have. Whether you haven’t had an OA course in a while or are brand new, feel free to come at the start of the hour or just pop in with a question. You’ll get a calendar invite with Zoom link when you register. | Date & Time: Thursday, April 18th at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Location: Zoom Register here. |
| Teaching Endorsement – CCU | The Teaching Endorsement in Celebrating CulTUral Uniqueness will empower participants to foster an inclusive environment in the classroom by examining their own course and syllabus design as well as some classroom behaviors. Through videos, readings, and discussions with colleagues, faculty will engage in relevant and new material to ensure that the tangible skills they’ve begun to learn through CCU workshops can be used in the classroom. All participants will leave the course with skills to help them continue to reevaluate their courses to better serve TU students. This is a two-week asynchronous course in Moodle with 1 discussion and 1-2 activities each week. Successful completion will earn you an electronic teaching endorsement from the Center for Faculty Support & Teaching Innovation that you can use as part of your professional portfolio. Participants must have completed the initial CCU full-year training before taking this Teaching Endorsement. | Date & Time: TBD Location: Moodle Facilitator: Dr. Julia Porter Register here. |
| Teaching Endorsement – Tiffin Teaching Reflection Seminar | This Teaching Endorsement in the power of reflection on teaching will use a semi-structured and guided process to reflect on, analyze, and make meaning of the last four semesters of teaching and the feedback we’ve received from our students, colleagues and leadership. The format is based on a research methodology (Little, Caulkins, Kaldor & Wheeler 2021) that includes an iterative process of reflection, analysis, and meaning-making at the individual, paired, and group levels. This is a two-week asynchronous course in Moodle with 1 discussion and 1-2 activities each week. Successful completion will earn you an electronic teaching endorsement from the Center for Faculty Support & Teaching Innovation that you can use as part of your professional portfolio. Faculty completing their second full year at TU are especially invited to participate, but faculty of any level of experience will gain some insights by going through this process. |
Date & Time: TBD Location: Moodle Facilitator: Stacey Floyd Register here. |
Each year, CITL works to provide you learning opportunities to improve your teaching and learning. Each year, we work around a theme for some of our major programming.
This year, it's the Boyer Model our programming and events will center around the Boyer Model. More resources about the Boyer Model can be found below as well as information about our upcoming events.
For a reminder of some of the topics covered in the past, here is our timeline:
In the 2019-2020 year, CITL programming will focus on the Boyer Model. Here are some helpful resources to learn more:
Scholarship Reconsidered by 
Scholarship Assessed by 
Building the Field of Higher Education Engagement by 