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Launched in 2008 to meet strategic goals in strengthening teaching programs
- Guiding principle: “Teaching is
Job One”
Mission: Provide the
resources, programs & leadership that support the highest quality of
professionalism & instruction within the various educational missions of the
college.
Participation: Built around voluntary & committed participation of core members, with
individual sessions open to all faculty & staff. Modeled as a community of practice with the approach of a teaching academy. Goal: Ongoing professional development
toward mastery, as opposed to recognition or exclusion. Participants point to the program as
particularly useful in improving their teaching methods, materials or
communication; their ability to assess students; and the learning environment
in their classroom. The program has been highlighted in recruitment of new
faculty members and is gaining attention as a model for other institutions.
November 2015: Master Teacher Program awarded the UT Gamma Sigma Delta chapter's Team Award for its outstanding contribution to teaching in agriculture and related disciplines.
| Date |
Topic |
Speaker(s) |
Jan. 10
(C228)
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Designing a Competency-Based Curriculum |
Jason Frank, MD, MA(Ed), Assoc Prof, Dept of Emergency Med, Univ of Ottawa |
Feb. 21
(Tickle Seminar Rm)
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Things That Make a Teacher Great – Recent Graduates' Perspectives |
Panel: Drs. Bianca Pfisterer, Tanner Snowden, Janet Roque-Torres, & Christian Folk |
Mar. 21
(A335) |
Teaching Technique Tips – Faculty Perspectives
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Panel: Drs. Reza Seddighi, Deanna Schaefer, & Karen McCormick
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Apr. 18
(Sequoyah Rm) |
Evidence-Based Lecturing: What do We Know?
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Drs. India Lane & Linden Craig, UTCVM
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May 16
(Tickle Seminar Rm) |
"Active" Lecturing: Engaging Health Professional Students in Large Classrooms |
Dr. Andrea Franks, Assoc Prof, Dept of Clinical Pharmacy, UT Health Science Center
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Education Funding Opportunities
UT CITE Grants
https://oit.utk.edu/instructional/grants/cite-grant/
Focus: Work with the UT Office of Information Technology on course redesign, instructional technologies, and research strategies to improve student learning outcomes. ($1,000 to $5,000)
UT
Faculty Fellow Program
Focus: Advancing exemplary teaching and enriching the experience of students by implementing projects that enhance their department's use of instructional technologies.
UT Faculty First Grant
Focus: Instructional development for effective uses of technology in teaching. Long-term partnership between a faculty member and OIT to develop digital instructional materials or to reshape an entire course.
UT Teaching Support Awards Program
Focus: Providing funding to instructional faculty members, graduate student teachers, and staff members to help them enhance the learning experience for students that take their courses. Supporting participation in teaching-focused professional development opportunities such as conferences and related educational experiences. Enriching and expanding the use of effective teaching strategies across the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. $500 to $5,000 each.
Ford Foundation
Focus: Reducing poverty and injustice; promoting democratic values; and advancing human knowledge, creativity and achievement.
NIH R25
Focus: Promoting an appreciation for and interest in biomedical research, provide additional training in specific areas, and/or to develop ways to disseminate scientific discovery into public health and community applications.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation