This year there will be more support for new and early career UT faculty than ever before! The CTL, in collaboration with the Provost’s Teaching Fellows, is excited to offer a new slate of programming for faculty in their first five years of teaching at UT:
RISE (Resources and Insights for Starting Educators) Program: a summer cohort experience that empowers faculty with teaching-related knowledge, skills, and peer community for their first years at UT. Learn more.
Longhorn Teaching Labs (LTL): CTL collaboration with the Provost’s Teaching Fellows to create a welcome week full of teaching-related resource-sharing and community-building directly before the fall semester—come learn a LTL with us!
Principles of Effective Teaching Certificate: a program that acknowledges faculty’s investment in evidence-based pedagogy through a series of specialized workshops aligned with UT’s Eight Principles of Effective Teaching.
This initiative is rooted in educational research* that demonstrates the effectiveness of professional development opportunities for early-career faculty that:
enhance understanding of university community and culture,
build in opportunities for practice and reflection around teaching, and
enable meaningful connections and relationship-building with colleagues across disciplines.
We have designed this initiative with these factors in mind in order to contribute to the success and wellbeing of your early-career faculty and also UT students’ learning experiences.
*Austin, 2010; Emery, Maher, & Ebert-May, 2020; Stowell, et al, 2020; Welch, 2003; Whitney, Lemus, Knotts, & Oh, 2016