by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 4: Intentional Flexibility
Ken Bain’s Back and This Time He Has Advice for Students
by Sandy Gambill, Instructional Designer Ken Bain, the author of the award-winning book, What the Best College Teachers Do is back with the newly released, What the Best College Students Do. Published in 2004, What The Best College Teachers Do is the product of a 15-year study of 100 teachers in a variety of settings. It has… Continue reading Ken Bain’s Back and This Time He Has Advice for Students
Weekly Reflection Podcast 3: Intercultural Competence in the Classroom
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 3: Intercultural Competence in the Classroom
15 Things to Know About the CTTL
by Dipti Subramaniam, Divya Subramaniam, and Erin Solomon, Graduate Assistants in the Reinert CTTL In honor of the 15th anniversary of the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL), we would like to share 15 things about the Center’s history, mission and vision, and how we enact our vision through the services and programs we… Continue reading 15 Things to Know About the CTTL
Encyclopedias in Tweed?
by Nathaniel Rivers, English This short podcast is equal parts a mediation on, an articulation of, and a call for transformative teaching and learning. As an English professor specializing in rhetorical theory, I like to mix my epideictic, forensic, and deliberative rhetoric. Having been present for Debra Lohe’s eloquent keynote at the 15th Anniversary celebration for… Continue reading Encyclopedias in Tweed?
Weekly Reflection Podcast 2: Learning and the Time Space Continuum
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty & Graduate Student Development, Reinert CTTL This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 2: Learning and the Time Space Continuum
Call for Innovative Teaching Fellowship Applications and Learning Studio Open Forums
by Michaella (Hammond) Thornton, Assistant Director for Instructional Design, Reinert CTTL The Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the next call for applications to teach in the Learning Studio, an experimental, technology-rich classroom located in Des Peres Hall, for the Fall 2013 semester through the Center’s Innovative Teaching Fellowship program.… Continue reading Call for Innovative Teaching Fellowship Applications and Learning Studio Open Forums
CTTL Celebration Wrap-Up
On Friday, August 31, 2012, the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning hosted a party to celebrate three things: our 15th Anniversary as a center, the transition to our new name, and welcoming new faculty to the SLU community. While the severe weather kept some folks away, many still turned out to celebrate with… Continue reading CTTL Celebration Wrap-Up
Weekly Reflection Podcast 1: Engaging All Learners
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning This is the Weekly Reflection podcast from Saint Louis University’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Each week, we focus on a topic that fits with our theme for the 2012-2013 academic year, Engaging All Learners. Each reflection loosely follows the five-part Ignatian… Continue reading Weekly Reflection Podcast 1: Engaging All Learners
A Year of Innovative Teaching: The CTTL's Fellowship Program Continues to Thrive
by Michaella Hammond, Assistant Director for Instructional Design, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning While this year marks the Center’s 15-year anniversary, the fall semester also marks our first full year of the Innovative Teaching Fellows program, which began with three pioneering full-time faculty members who taught in the Learning Studio during the Fall… Continue reading A Year of Innovative Teaching: The CTTL's Fellowship Program Continues to Thrive