News from CTL

On Oct. 26, Provost’s Teaching Fellow Katie Tackett (Special Education) and Ashley Richardson-Minnitt (Longhorn TIES) facilitated a PTF Think Tank titled Teaching Neurodiverse Students, during which participants discussed neurodiversity and how to support neurodiverse students in classroom environments.

The resource includes topics for framing and revisiting difficult conversations, as well as suggestions for content warnings, linking to mental health resources, and responding to student feedback. This approach is critical for educational care, growth, and mutual accountability, emphasizing the importance of assisting students during difficult times.

This week the Provost’s Teaching Fellow Ruth Shear (Chemistry) facilitated a PTF Think Tank titled Learning From Mistakes, during which participants discussed the important role mistakes and failures play in learning environments, and how the new UT Honor Code emphasizes the need to embrace mistakes.

October brings us to the midpoint of fall semester. See below for a variety of resources to support student learning. In addition, what can you do this month to maintain or adjust your current practices?

We encourage you to look for one or two opportunities of interest in this full month of CTL programming. This semester's theme is Genuine Intelligence: Demystifying Technology as a Teaching Tool.

The impact of generative AI on higher education has continued to evolve since the release of ChatGPT earlier in the year. This special July newsletter describes a CTL summer series offered to assist the campus community in preparing for fall courses.

It now officially feels like summer. We hope you are finding times of rest and joy in the midst of ongoing projects or time for leisure. See below for CTL celebrations, opportunities for graduate students, and the latest updates from the Provost's Teaching Fellows and Academic Technology.

Please join the Center for Teaching and Learning in congratulating 30 of our University of Texas faculty for earning a nationally recognized teaching credential.

An interview with Christopher Rausch (Cockrell)

Spring semester 2023 began with a twist. In addition to the first day of classes arriving earlier than usual, many news articles, blog entries, and social media posts were focused on an emerging artificial intelligence text generator known as ChatGPT.