News from CTL

What better way to start a Friday morning than eating breakfast tacos, playing with spaghetti, and talking about teaching? In its first in-person iteration in three years, the 7th Annual Graduate Teaching Showcase did not disappoint.

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is partnering with the Graduate School and UT Libraries to host our 7th Graduate Teaching Showcase which highlights excellent graduate student teaching at UT Austin. The centerpiece of the Showcase is a series of personal narratives about teaching presented by students from across campus.

Like everyone, we've been on a roller coaster. Some of our team members are only now getting power restored to their homes. At the same time, we are so excited that Texas Teach-Up is starting today! In the midst of it all, we're grateful for this UT Austin community that inspires and sustains us.

The Center for Teaching and Learning eagerly returns to our Inclusive Teaching and Learning Symposium where we invite you to Pause for Pedagogy. This year’s event will focus on promoting inclusive and transformative pedagogy through panels and communities of practice. Submit your proposal by October 10.

We hope the start of the semester is progressing with abundant amounts of curiosity, collaboration, and fresh insight. As always, contact us if we can support your teaching and learning journey.

Lessons learned from solving puzzles in escape rooms, teaching in community schools and prisons, and leading parties at zoos were just some of the stories shared at the 6th annual Graduate Teaching Showcase presented by the Center for Teaching and Learning in partnership with the Graduate School and UT Libraries.

March is the month we celebrate the contributions of graduate student instructors at the Graduate Teaching Showcase as well as a new cohort of Provost's Teaching Fellows. In addition, see below for experiential and blended learning opportunities this month. Finally, there are two grant programs that provide funds to support your instructional goals. We continue to make progress on steps towards our name change: Center for Teaching and Learning! Stay tuned.

This past summer, thirteen graduate students from the College of Liberal Arts successfully completed the Inclusive Course Design Institute, a pilot program developed by the Graduate Student Development program at the Faculty Innovation Center to support AIs who were designing a course from the ground up for the first time. Graduate students who completed the Institute received a stipend of $100, generously provided by the College of Liberal Arts.

The start of fall semester has begun! Here's an overview of upcoming programming and we pulled together a collection of FIC and campus partner resources to support tech-enhanced instruction.

Rising to meet the significant barriers to learning this pandemic year presented, UT’s graduate student instructors found innovative ways to create community and address issues of equity to keep students engaged in the learning process, even in the most difficult of times. The Faculty Innovation Center, in partnership with the Graduate School and UT Libraries, was proud to celebrate some of these stand-out innovations at the 6th annual Graduate Teaching Showcase, held virtually this year for the very first time.