Do you struggle to connect with your students? Are you unsure how to really create a welcoming classroom community? You’re not alone. As instructors and students alike navigate our own complex lives, it can be difficult to come together to grow and learn in our disciplines. Relational education practices are here to help. By facilitating the creation of meaningful connections between instructors and students, these powerful pedagogical tools can have a widespread positive impact on...
Do you struggle to connect with your students? Are you unsure how to really create a welcoming classroom community? You’re not alone. As instructors and students alike navigate our own complex lives, it can be difficult to come together to grow and learn in our disciplines. Relational education practices are here to help. By facilitating the creation of meaningful connections between instructors and students, these powerful pedagogical tools can have a widespread positive impact on...
The SGID's goal is to provide faculty with important feedback that helps them adjust their teaching and improve student learning outcomes. It also allows faculty to reflect on and document critical teaching behaviors. This process, vetted in research, supports the continuous quality improvement of teaching and learning and shows our continued commitment to creating innovative learning environments, high-impact pedagogies, and meaningful student-faculty interaction at Georgia College...
Now is a great time to consider ways to build on your strengths as an instructor. The goal of Peer Feedback on Teaching (PFoT) is to provide support to help you improve the quality of learning in your classroom. Deliberate, continuous improvement of one's teaching is one of the great joys of being a professor. Our trained observers enjoy working with you as you develop and continuously improve your teaching skills. This process takes a cross-disciplinary approach, pairing you with...
The Objective Selection Form (OSF) opens today, Oct. 17, for the fall 2023 semester through Dec. 11. The OSF allows faculty to identify targeted learning objectives to measure teaching effectiveness and faculty response to the OSF drives summative results on the Student Rating of Instruction Survey (SRIS). The primary indicator of teaching effectiveness is how well students rate their progress on learning objectives that faculty mark as important or essential on the OSF. Since every...
We are pleased to share with you exciting news of the creation by Provost Dr. Costas Spirou of a new grant to support collaborative research here on Georgia College & State University's campus. Collaborative research involves scholars from across disciplines working together to address a common research goal or question. Collaborating on a common goal uses different perspectives and disciplines combining their respective skills and backgrounds to study and understand unique and diverse...
Please see the August 2023 CTL newsletter for more information on: Spotlighting Helen DuPree and High-impact Practices in the Classroom News from the CTL - Impact Your Teacher Effectiveness Ratings through the Objective Selection Form (OSF); CTL to support application for 2024-2025 Fulbright Award; CTL to help place your materials in Your GeorgiaVIEW/D2L Course; New Faculty Orientation 2023; Academic Affairs Small Grants Program - Application period opens Sept. 1; Inclusive Excellence...
The call for research grant proposals for 2023 Round I opens Sept. 1, 2023, with a deadline of Sept. 15, 2023 at 5 p.m. EST. Once the applicant has their materials ready to submit, please log into GeorgiaVIEW, click on the Self-Registration menu option and find the CbEL Grants Program course. Be sure to complete the self-registration for the course. Submission instructions and forms to upload your materials are in the course announcements. For more information, please see the Program...
The purpose of this grant program is to provide funding for Georgia College & State University faculty to conduct research on topics regarding inclusive excellence in the discipline and beyond. Faculty can address inclusive excellence in a variety of ways including: examining underserved populations; researching the effect of educational, economic, health and environmental disparities; analyzing public policies and their impact on the social world; investigating historical events;...
The call for research grant proposals for 2023 Round I opens Sept. 1, 2023, with a deadline of Sept. 15, 2023 at 5 p.m. EST. Applicants should read the guidance provided by Academic Affairs. Once the applicant has their materials ready to submit, please log into GeorgiaVIEW/D2L, click on the Self-Registration menu option and find the 2023 Academic Affairs Small Grants Program course. Be sure to complete the self-registration for the course. Submission instructions and forms to upload...