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".
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:
The Call for Proposals for the University of Waterloo's seventh annual Teaching and Learning Conference on Thursday, April 30, 2015 is now open.
This year's theme is "Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Clarifying and Communicating Teaching and Learning Processes".
The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) has a unique job opportunity open for a senior graduate student registered at the University of Waterloo. The position runs from January 2015 through December 2015.
The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) has a unique job opportunity open for two graduate students registered at the University of Waterloo from the following faculties: Mathematics, Engineering or AHS. The position runs from January 2015 through August 2015.
This fall, CTE is offering nine workshops over five days during our annual "Focus on Teaching Week." For Waterloo instructors, this provides an opportunity to explore ideas and strategies pertaining to teaching in a more sustained and purposeful way.
CTE is pleased to announce that Dr. Christine Zaza has been hired as Faculty Liaison for Applied Health Sciences, as well as for certain departments in the Faculty of Arts (other departments in Arts will continue to be supported by Kyle Scholz.
CTE Staff members have the privilege this week of providing a training program in Instructional Technologies to 34 instructors who are visiting from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. Workshops in the program cover topics such as the flipped classroom, ePortfolios, concept mapping tools, clickers, data visualization tools, wikis, blended learning, and more.
Check out this article on Dr. Levent Tunçel, who will be honored at this year's convocation as one of four recipients of Waterloo's 2014
Congratulations to this year’s recipient of the Certificate in University Teaching Award, Carlos Moreno (Engineering)!
An interview with Carlos is featured in the May 2014 edition of the CTE newsletter, Teaching Matters.