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Amit & Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student Announced
Congratulations to the 2016 recipients of the Amit & Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student!
CTE hiring graduate students
The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) has two job opportunities open for senior graduate students registered at the University of Waterloo. Please refer to the attached flyers for specific details, the application deadlines and instructions.
Please note that there are two job advertisements for two different types of positions, each with different responsibilities, time commitments and application deadlines. When submitting an application, please indicate which position you are applying for.
Stephanie White hired to new CTE position
Dr. Stephanie White will be joining the Centre for Teaching Excellence as an Instructional Developer, TA Training and Writing Support on February 16, 2016.
Veronica Brown hired to new CTE role
The Centre for Teaching Excellence is pleased to announce that Veronica Brown has assumed the newly created role of Senior Instructional Developer, Curriculum & Quality Enhancement, as of February 1. In this position, Veronica provides oversight and facilitative support for departmental and Faculty-wide curriculum planning initiatives.
Kyle Scholz, CTE's Liaison for Arts, wins award for outstanding teaching!
Kyle Scholz, CTE's Liaison for the Faculty of Arts, is the winner of this year's Warren Ober Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student in the Faculty of Arts. The Warren Ober Award is gra
Amit & Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student Announced
Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Amit & Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student!
- Mostafa Farrokhabadi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Tommy Mayberry, English Language and Literature
- Nathaniel Stevens, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Distinguished Teacher Award Recipients Announced
Congratulations to this year's recipients of the Distinguished Teacher Awards!
- Greta Kroeker, History
- Michael MacDonald, English Language and Literature
- Mary Louise McAllister, Environment and Resource Studies
- Jeff West, Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference: Registration Open!
Registration is now open for the University of Waterloo's annual Teaching and learning Conference on April 30, 2015.
This year's theme is "Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Clarifying and Communicating Teaching and Learning Processes".
CTE's Edible Org Chart
At our last CTE staff meeting, and in festive preparation for the upcoming winter break, CTE staff created an "edible org chart": each staff member was randomly assigned the name of another staff member, and then decorated a gingerbread figure to represent the quintessence of that staff member. Those who felt that their ability to clothe gingerbread people was inadequate supplemented their icing-based haberdashery with a descriptive adjective. Here is the final product: