PTF Impacts
Provost's Teaching Fellows have made lasting impacts in their departments, colleges and schools, all of the University of Texas, and even the broader scholarship of teaching and learning. Through both individual initiatives and university-wide programs, PTFs continue to serve as catalysts for positive change and further our campus culture of teaching and learning.
Displaying 1 - 25 of 52Teaching Climate Change Canvas Module
A campus-wide faculty learning community constructed a canvas sandbox website where we could share materials related to climate change, with annotations, with the broader UT community. We collected our groups materials, and tried to organize them in a useful way. This includes lectures, activities, quizzes, projects, pre/post tests, etc. We organize both by learning objective, and by course. Our website is now live. A publication on pre/post survey results is being prepared.
American Society for Legal History & Renaissance Society of America
ASLH 2024 Conference info: https://theaste.org/meetings/2024-international-conference/
Session info:
Islamic Law of Property in Colonial Contexts: The Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Crimea
Chair & Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Samy Ayoub, University of Texas at Austin. Lost Property: Ownership, Trust, and Community
University Writing Center Resources
The University Writing Center has greatly expanded its STEM Writing training program to include all new consultants.
Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for Inclusive Mentoring (ASTE)
Rodriguez, S.R. & Wilson, R. (2024, January) Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for inclusive mentoring. Round table presented at The Association of Science Teacher Education Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
View this proposal from July 2023
Effect on Students and Faculty of Implementation of a Comprehensive, Longitudinal Pharmacy Practice Laboratory Series into Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum
A poster presentation at a national conference describing the Pharmacy Practice Lab (PPL) sequence spanning all six semesters of the UTCOP didactic program to consolidate lab components and increase skills development while aligning with and reinforcing curriculum balance.
Bridging Rhetoric and Engineering presentation and paper
“Bridging Rhetoric and Engineering: Qualitative Results from a Writing Center Program to Improve Engineering Undergraduate Writing,” Proceedings from IEEE ProComm, 2024. Pittsburgh, PA (July 14-17, 2024). I delivered this co-authored conference paper at the IEEE ProComm conference. See the link for the paper.
View the presentation slides here
For more information, you can access the article with the DOI: 10.1109/ProComm61427.2024.00034.
American Society of Engineering Education
The entries are conference articles of the American Society of Engineering Education annual conference.
For information on the implementation of a new student initiative aimed at promoting student success and well-being, check out this resource from ASEE: Implementation of a New Student Initiative Promoting Student Success and Well-being
Rigorously Compassionate Syllabi Website
To learn more about the Rigorously Compassionate initiative at UT Austin, which focuses on combining empathy with academic excellence, visit their website:
Rigorously Compassionate Program
Be Well to Do Well (Signature Course Resource)
This is a video project designed to be shown in all Signature Courses at UT. Together with discussion prompt, the video aims to acquaint students with mental and physical health resources on campus, and to teach them strategies for success.
Team-Based Learning in the Political Science Classroom (Journal of Political Science Education)
Team-Based Learning is a specific interactive educational method that has been shown to develop skills for meaningful teamwork. Through engaging classroom activities, students experience the benefits of working with others. According to the literature, students perceive the benefits of teamwork including understanding the course material more deeply and producing higher quality class assignments.
ClioVis: Visualizing Connections (Review, Journal of American History)
For a detailed review published in ClioVis on the Journal of American History, you can access the PDF here: ClioVis Review JAH.
Engineering Sentences through the Texas Snowpocalypse: Results of a collaboration between a University Writing Center and an Engineering Writing Course
"Engineering Sentences through the Texas Snowpocalypse: Results of a Collaboration between a University Writing Center and an Engineering Writing Course" This conference presentation (co-authored with Hye Sun You) was delivered on Feb. 16, 2023, at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. The slides are available in Texas ScholarWorks, The University of Texas Libraries.
Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project (International Communication Association)
Chen, W. et al., (2023). Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project. Paper presented at Media Sociology Postconference, International Communication Association, Toronto.
Teaching Tips 2022-2023
Each year, the PTF Chair-Elect has the opportunity to share recurring Teaching Tips with all faculty at UT. These messages cover a variety of topics, styles, and methodologies, from brief and practical classroom strategies to in-depth conversations with voices from across campus.
This year’s Teaching Tips were written by Chair-Elect Nina Telang.
Write from the Start: presentation and paper
"Write from the Start: Mixed-Methods Results of a Collaboration between a First-Year Biomedical Engineering Class and a University Writing Center.” American Society for Engineering Education, Baltimore, MD, June 26, 2023. I delivered this co-authored presentation at the ASEE conference. The paper may be accessed through the link.
Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic (TAPA)
This invited paper is part of a group of six articles on "rupture and repair" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic published in Transactions of the American Philological Association, the journal of the professional organization for American Classicists.