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CEIT Happens, Issue 1

Welcome to the inaugural newsletter from the Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching. Its purpose is to let you know all that we’re doing, provide resources on teaching strategies, and highlight examples of effective teaching around campus --Calendar of events --Peer Coaching --Warner Reading Group --Single-point Rubrics --Wendy Bjerke and Sway --Metacognition and CTL 125 -- Fellows Update --Quality Matters --Student Course Surveys

Episode 2: Community-Engaged Learning in the Time of COVID

CTE Podcast: The podcast of the University of San Francisco\u27s Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) features conversations with university faculty about teaching in higher education today. In this episode, we talk with Star Plaxton-Moore (USF Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good) about planning and teaching community-engaged learning courses during the pandemic. Join us in hearing about challenges, opportunities, and best practices in having students engage in online community partnerships.https://repository.usfca.edu/cte_podcast/1002/thumbnail.jp

Episode 1: Opportunities and Affordances of Teaching Online

CTE Podcast: The podcast of the University of San Francisco\u27s Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) features conversations with university faculty about teaching in higher education today. Our guest in this episode is Dr. Joan Faber McAlister, who teaches at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Joan is a seasoned teacher who has offered online courses for many years. In this episode, she reflects on how teaching online enables her to do things that can’t be done in a regular classroom, and also shares specific suggestions for course design.https://repository.usfca.edu/cte_podcast/1001/thumbnail.jp

Episode 7: Teaching-Learning as Conversation

In this episode, USF’s College of Arts and Sciences International Studies Assistant Professor Quỳnh N. Phạm converses with Vassar College’s Political Science Professor Andrew Davison about teaching-learning as conversation. Davison shares his pedagogy of caring and approaching students as interlocutors with insights about the material. He also shares his experience of not entering into a graded relationship with students in order to expand the range of consideration and give space to voices that tend to be silenced or excluded. Continuing the conversation, Phạm reflects with USF CTE co-directors Marilyn DeLaure and Eugene Kim on the importance of attending to students’ diverse and unequal conditions of learning, engaging multiple traditions and sources of knowledge, and fostering a co-learning space that can be “reciprocally challenging,” hospitable to risk-taking, and potentially transformative for everyone involved.https://repository.usfca.edu/cte_podcast/1007/thumbnail.jp

Episode 5: Podcasting in teaching

CTE Podcast: The podcast of the University of San Francisco\u27s Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) features conversations with university faculty about teaching in higher education today. Daniela Dominguez (USF, School of Education) has a conversation with Eugene Kim (USF, School of Law, CTE co-director) about how and why she uses podcasting in her classes to connect with her students.https://repository.usfca.edu/cte_podcast/1005/thumbnail.jp

Episode 4: Cura Personalis

CTE Podcast: The podcast of the University of San Francisco\u27s Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) features conversations with university faculty about teaching in higher education today. Marilyn DeLaure (USF, College of Arts and Sciences, CTE co-driector), talks with Kevin Lo (School of Management) about how he incorporates the Jesuit principle of cura personalis (care for the whole person) into his teaching, both in person and online.https://repository.usfca.edu/cte_podcast/1004/thumbnail.jp

Episode 3: Keeping ourselves, our students, and our community safe and healthy when we return to campus

CTE Podcast: The podcast of the University of San Francisco\u27s Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) features conversations with university faculty about teaching in higher education today. In this episode, we talk with Kelly L\u27Engle (USF School of Nursing and Health Professions) about the work done by USF\u27s Public Health Working Group. Join us to learn about evolving public health recommendations and safety protocols, what in-person teaching and learning might look like, and what to expect once we return to campus.https://repository.usfca.edu/cte_podcast/1003/thumbnail.jp

Episode 6: Centering Equity and Race-Conscious Capacity Building

CTE Podcast: The podcast of the University of San Francisco\u27s Tracy Seeley Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) features conversations with university faculty about teaching in higher education today. Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi (USF Vice Provost for Diversity Engagement and Community Outreach) and USF CTE co-directors Eugene Kim and Marilyn DeLaure reflect on ways in which race and racism factor into every aspect of life, including academia. Wardell-Ghirarduzzi discusses DECO’s work fostering dialogue about racism and equity at USF, and expresses her optimism in the wake of the racial justice protests of 2020.https://repository.usfca.edu/cte_podcast/1006/thumbnail.jp