News from CTL

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.

In preparation for fall 2020, the UT teaching and learning community developed a wealth of resources to get us through the pandemic. We dove back into those resources, many featured on our FIC Commons site, and extracted some that may be helpful for instructors juggling course modalities in the first few weeks of classes to meet health and safety needs. 

The latest FIC newsletter includes Director Dr. Molly Hatcher's spring semester reflections, a spring flyer with programming details, and FIC partner news.

We want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Your partnership in support of UT Austin's instructional mission gives us much hope for the work we will do together in 2021.

See below for our remaining 2020 events as well as what to look forward to in the new year. Join us on Jan. 12 for first event of the spring semester: Back to School 2021!

Hard to believe classes officially end today, but we know everyone deserves a much-needed break. See below for our final fall infographic, holiday party news, FIC partner updates, and events to look out for in 2021!

See below for our latest infographic and a link to the ITL Symposium keynote address. Also, be on the lookout for more information about the FIC holiday party. We send our best wishes for a restful Thanksgiving holiday!

When my discussion-based, writing-intensive course transitioned online abruptly and half-way through the Spring 2020 semester, I worried – as other instructors did – about how to best care for my students in light of global events while also maintaining the momentum we had established during our first couple of months in the classroom together.