The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) has announced this year’s IDEATE Faculty Fellows, and five faculty members from the IDEATE community are honored for their commitment and enthusiasm to conduct excellent Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research.

Dr. Ra'sheeah Richardson, Assistant Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, has been named a 2021 Academic Affairs Tradition of Excellence Award winner in the staff category.

Jaskirat Batra’s style of teaching using virtual reality might revolutionize how engineering courses are taught in classrooms. | Image: Dharmesh Patel

Ten Texas A&M University faculty were selected for the 2021 Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. This award encourages, recognizes, and rewards faculty who provide students with meaningful learning experiences, embrace effective teaching approaches, and value student-centered learning.

Recipients of this award will receive a $5,000 cash stipend and will retain the right to use the title for life, as long as they remain in good standing.

 

"Virtual TAI was really rewarding this year. TAI brings TA’s together and forms a community where we can ask our questions and improve our teaching skills. It's a little extra boost of confidence before many TAs teach (and/or perform other roles) for the very first time. I was really inspired by the new TAs that I met in each session. It's clear that they know their subjects well and care about their interactions with their students." said Amy King, a Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Graduate Teaching Consultant (GTC), Teaching Assistant Institute (TAI) facilitator, and graduate student in the Department of Hispanic Studies.

This is just one of the many comments about the 2020-2021 Teaching Assistant Institute. Like many educators contemplating Fall 2020 instruction amid continued COVID-19 distancing policies, Dr. Ra’sheedah Richardson, CTE’s Assistant Director and TAI Administrator, reviewed options to deliver a quality training program to new teaching assistants. In collaboration with the leadership at the Graduate and Professional School (GPS) and the CTE, it was decided that TAI will be transitioned into a 100-percent virtual training program for the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters. Routinely delivered in a one day, 8-hour face-to-face program, TAI evolved into asynchronous modules combined with a synchronous 2-hour GTC-facilitated activity-based session.
 

MATH 140 and MATH 142 Students Use Texas A&M University Instructor Created Open Educational Resource Textbooks

By Samantha Shields, M.Ed., Instructional Consultant, Center for Teaching Excellence

February 26, 2021

Howdy and welcome to a new semester!
 
January is National Mentoring Month and we are excited to celebrate within and across our campus!  In addition to a full slate of the Faculty Mentoring Academy (FMA), we have a brand-new email address dedicated to communication about all things mentorship at TAMU.
 

The creative learning space boasts fully immersive technology for classroom and learning labs.

 

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) is proud to announce this year’s Montague-CTE Scholars.  2020 marks the 30th year that this distinguished honor in teaching excellence has been awarded.