by Konnor Brennan, Graduate Assistant, Reinert Center The tools and methods instructors use to assess to student understanding in their courses play many roles in course design. Assessing students throughout the course is important to ensure that students passing the course are meeting certain standards that are required to pass the course, and/or ensuring that… Continue reading An Overview of Assessment
Register Now: Ignatian Pedagogy Institute
Ignatian Pedagogy Institute *Session II. - Ignatian Imagination and Social Justice for Enhanced Teaching and Learning Monday, March 11, 2019 Il Monastero During this day-long retreat, participants will increase and deepen their knowledge of Ignatian pedagogy. Through multiple interactive sessions, participants will engage in imaginative thinking strategies focused on deeper learning and social justice that… Continue reading Register Now: Ignatian Pedagogy Institute
New Resource Guide
A new resource guide on Universal Design for Learning has been posted to the Reinert Center website [LINK]. If you want to talk with someone about universal design for learning in your own classes, you may request a teaching consultation by completing this form (LINK). If you have ideas for resource guide topics you would like… Continue reading New Resource Guide
Teaching and Justice: Reflections from the U.S./Mexico Border
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center As we begin the new term, I have been thinking about the Reinert Center’s theme – teaching and justice – in light of new insights gleaned during a recent immersion trip to the U.S./Mexico border. The people I met, the stories I heard, have me thinking in new ways… Continue reading Teaching and Justice: Reflections from the U.S./Mexico Border
Winter Institute 2019: Teaching and Justice
January 10, 2019, 9:45 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Il Monastero This day-long event hosted by the Reinert Center will feature dynamic presentations by several faculty members from across the university who are doing work at the intersection of teaching and justice. The morning presentations will be followed by an interactive resource/service information session featuring SLU… Continue reading Winter Institute 2019: Teaching and Justice
Teaching While Female
by Kristin Broussard, Graduate Assistant, Reinert Center In keeping with the Reinert Center’s theme of “Teaching and Justice,” I think it is important to highlight some of the areas in higher education where justice is lacking – namely, the gender inequality experienced by women faculty. First, some background on gendered expectations, or expectations that differ… Continue reading Teaching While Female
Congratulations to the Fall 2018 Certificate Recipients
The Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning honored five Certificate in University Teaching Skills recipients and two Foundations Certificate in University Teaching Skills recipients at our spring ceremony on Friday, December 7, 2018 in the Pius Library Level II Gallery. Associate dean in the Chaifetz School of Business, Debra Barbeau, began the ceremony by sharing… Continue reading Congratulations to the Fall 2018 Certificate Recipients
