East Tennessee high school teachers, guidance counselors, and other education professionals are invited to learn ways they can better prepare students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields for the rigors of college life during Big Orange STEM Saturday for Educators on October 22. The free half-day event is hosted by UT Libraries and will
The Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center is offering a series of workshops to introduce interested faculty to Experience Learning.
Educators from around the region are meeting at UT today for Design Interface, an annual classroom design conference affiliated with the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center and UT’s Learning Consortium.
The TennTLC is hosting its first national teaching and learning conference, Design Interface—Creating Spaces to Experience Learning, and is calling for submissions for papers, posters, or panels for this conference. Proposals are due by Thursday, December 17.
The UT System recently adopted a policy that reiterates its commitment to providing and supporting a teaching and learning environment that is accessible to all.
Associate Professor of Social Work Matthew Theriot, who successfully led the effort to develop UT’s new Experience Learning initiative, has been named associate provost for teaching and learning innovation. He will oversee implementation of Experience Learning and oversee the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center.
What do you get when you combine a classroom, courtroom, and theater stage? Associate Professor Joy Radice’s criminal law class. Radice is using a new approach to teach criminal law.
UT’s Office of Research and Engagement is hosting a national expert on academic reward systems for engaged scholarship. KerryAnn O’Meara, associate professor of higher education at the University of Maryland, will present “Rewarding Engaged Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure: Strategies for Action” at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, March 13, at the university.
Taimi Olsen, formerly the associate director of the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center, has been named as the center’s new director. She replaces Dave Schumann, the center’s founding director, who will now split his time between faculty duties in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management and the center.
Faculty Appreciation Week has been set for February 10-14, and the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center is sponsoring a free luncheon workshop on flipped classrooms on Wednesday, February 12. “Flipping Out at UT: the Pedagogy of Flipped Classrooms” will be presented by center staff along with professors Richard Bennett and Brad Vander Zanden and lecturer
The Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center and the Graduate School have collaborated to create the Graduate Teaching Certification Program. The deadline for applying to be part of the inaugural cohort is Monday, November 25. Applicants may download the online application and submit the completed form to fmcgaske@utk.edu. Potential participants will be sent a departmental recommendation
The Office of the Provost is accepting applications for the position of director of the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center. The center is currently under the direction of professor David Schumann, who will step down from that role on December 31. This is an internal search, and the committee seeks to make its recommendation to