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.

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Bridging Rhetoric and Engineering presentation and paper

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“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.

Effect on Students and Faculty of Implementation of a Comprehensive, Longitudinal Pharmacy Practice Laboratory Series into Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum

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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.

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Be Well to Do Well (Signature Course Resource)

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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.

Drivers Exercise

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Before deciding what your career goals are, it’s critical to know what you value most in a job. What gets you out of bed to go to start the day, go to work, and/or live your life? This exercise will help you define and prioritize what drives you. We provide definitions of 8 common "drivers". Once you understand these drivers, you can take the exercise and go through a ranking process to determine which are most important to you (i.e. you’re less likely to compromise on these) and which are less important (i.e. you’re more willing to compromise on these).

American Society for Legal History & Renaissance Society of America

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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

Faculty-driven Communities of Practice: Implications for Inclusive Mentoring (ASTE)

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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

Rigorously Compassionate Syllabi Website

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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

Teaching Climate Change Canvas Module

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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.

University Writing Center Resources

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The University Writing Center has greatly expanded its STEM Writing training program to include all new consultants.

American Society of Engineering Education

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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

ClioVis: Visualizing Connections (Review, Journal of American History)

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For a detailed review published in ClioVis on the Journal of American History, you can access the PDF here: ClioVis Review JAH.

Bridging the Internship Gap: Preliminary Findings from the Internship Project (International Communication Association)

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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.

Team-Based Learning in the Political Science Classroom (Journal of Political Science Education)

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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.