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
It's a Party!
The Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning is pleased to invite members of the SLU community to celebrate a new year, a new name, and a big milestone! This fall marks our 15th anniversary as a comprehensive teaching center (read about the Center’s history here), as well as our first semester operating under our… Continue reading It's a Party!
Teaching at a Jesuit University: A Brief Introduction
by Debra Rudder Lohe, Director, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning If you’re new to the context of a Jesuit institution, you are probably wondering, What’s a Jesuit? And how does a Jesuit university differ from other kinds of schools? And perhaps even more important, for many, is the question, What do the religious… Continue reading Teaching at a Jesuit University: A Brief Introduction
Getting the Most from Your Faculty Liaison Librarian
by Martha Allen, Faculty Liaison Librarian, Pius XII Memorial Library If you do not know your department’s faculty liaison librarian or have not met with your faculty liaison librarian in a while, the beginning of the academic year is a perfect time to create new relationships and revisit old ones. What does a faculty liaison… Continue reading Getting the Most from Your Faculty Liaison Librarian
The CTTL Welcomes Our 2012-2013 Graduate Assistants
by Gina Merys, Assistant Director for Faculty and Graduate Student Development The Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning is very lucky to have three Graduate Assistants on our staff. Graduate Assistants in the Center assist in the administration of the Certificate in University Teaching Skills (CUTS) program, conduct research on teaching and… Continue reading The CTTL Welcomes Our 2012-2013 Graduate Assistants
CTTL Awarded AAC&U Grant
The Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning has been awarded a Seminar Grant from the Association of American Colleges & Universities, as part of the AAC&U’s Bringing Theory to Practice program. The grant will support a series of conversations among faculty, staff, and students across the SLU campus to discuss how best to foster… Continue reading CTTL Awarded AAC&U Grant
Welcome Back: What You Need to Know about SLU Global (a.k.a., Blackboard)
By Kim Scharringhausen, Instructional Liason Learning Management Systems (LMS) have been around here at Saint Louis University almost from the time they first became available in 1995. SLU adopted WebCT in 1997 and launched it as a small pilot for the Nursing School and then made it available to the entire University. My relationship with… Continue reading Welcome Back: What You Need to Know about SLU Global (a.k.a., Blackboard)
CTTL Director Talks on Fox 2 Local News
Our own CTTL Director, Dr. Debra Lohe, spoke on the Fox 2 News morning broadcast on Wednesday, July 25 about engaging students in learning by leveraging software, such as Tegrity, in a “flipped class” model. In this teaching model, teachers rethink the traditional class model asking students to watch lectures and take notes as homework,… Continue reading CTTL Director Talks on Fox 2 Local News
Social Media in the Classroom: Beyond the Hype
By Jerod Quinn, Instructional Designer for the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning As an instructional designer in the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, I have been exploring the use of social media in the classroom during the spring 2012 semester. I’ll admit, it can be a little overwhelming to sort through the… Continue reading Social Media in the Classroom: Beyond the Hype
The Notebook 