Teaching Enhancement Programs 

The following Center activities support OSU’s strategic goal of providing a teaching and learning environment that enhances student persistence and success. Effective teaching is a major contributor to student success and persistence in learning.

By serving and advancing faculty teaching skills and understanding of students as learners and by offering faculty with a safe environment where they can address these issues while providing access to resources that support effective teaching, the CTL serves a vital function by enhancing student persistence and success across the campus.   

I. Workshops to Enhance Teaching and Student Learning (sample listing)

Assessment
Discovering Your Teaching Philosophy
Creating Significant Learning for Your Students
The Art of Teaching for New Teachers
The Paradigm Shift in Higher Education – What it Means for Faculty and Students Advice from the Trenches: The Challenges of Teaching Large Classes

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II. Faculty Learning Communities focused on specific pedagogies  

III. Consultations with individuals, departments and colleges – individual consultations are confidential. Support for department and college T&L initiatives

IV.  Classroom observations and confidential individual assessment of teaching effectiveness – assistance with the development of a teaching portfolio

V. Guidebooks and video material for implementing new teaching pedagogies

VI. CTL Website Resources

a. Video library featuring OSU Faculty discussing teaching and learning issues and practices
b. Grant applications to support innovative teaching and assessment
c. Links to national T&L sites

VII. Advanced Academy Space to support faculty research on teaching and learning issues

 
VIII. Grants to support innovative teaching and learning

L. L. Stewart Faculty Development Award

IX. Collaborative Work with Departments and Colleges – Health and Human Services, Horticulture, Microbiology on critical issues facing faculty as instructors and students as learners

X. Course Portfolio – the CTL will show faculty how they can document the good work they are doing in teaching and learning