CETL—For Faculty

New this year, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers College faculty a range of resources to enhance their teaching.

  • Workshop series
  • Consulting program
  • Mini-grant program
  • Online teaching resources

In addition, our long-standing and highly successful Workshop Program remains a key part of the Center's work.

Teaching Roundtable Sessions

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is delighted to announce the launch of a series of Teaching Roundtable Sessions—opportunities for teaching faculty to get together in an informal setting to learn about new ideas for effective teaching (and learning!). Each session will have a speaker, followed by a space for faculty to engage with one another and share ideas. Recent Roundtables have included:

  • Backward Design
  • Universal Design Principles
  • Classroom Techniques that Support Student Engagement with Graphical Representations

Please let us know if there is a particular topic pertaining to teaching and learning that you would like a Roundtable to address.

News and Events

Funding Available to Attend Teaching Conference

The annual Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by RIT, is a well-attended and lively venue for discussing new ideas in teaching.  This year's theme is Innovative Course Design. This cross-disciplinary conference includes presentations, break-out sections, and the opportunity to speak with faculty from across western New York colleges and universities about best practices in teaching.

The College's Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) will sponsor the registration of ten faculty members who wish to attend this conference.  It is scheduled for May 30-31 and will be held at the RIT Inn and Conference Center. 

More information about the conference: http://www2.rit.edu/fitl/

To request funding from CETL: http://cetlatthecollege.wufoo.com/forms/faculty-institute-on-teaching-and-learning-fitl/

Summer consultations for faculty

For many faculty members and instructors, the summer months (or at least some of them) will be taken up with course preparation for the Fall semester.

The Center would like to extend an invitation to you to make use of our services to support you in:

  • Designing the curriculum (including setting course objectives)
  • Developing a syllabus
  • Thinking through the teaching activities that would best suit the class size and content
  • Creating both formative and summative assessment tasks to measure student learning

Jenny Hadingham will be available all summer as a resource for you.