CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE TEACHING

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Welcome!

The CTT and our staff of college-based instructional designers consult, partner, and deliver programming across campus. 

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2026 Teaching and Learning Symposium

NOV 6 | East Campus Union. This year’s theme, Engage, Empower, Educate, celebrates innovative, evidence-based, and learner-centered approaches that inspire students and transform teaching. Presentations should challenge traditional practices, foster meaningful learning experiences, and empower both educators and students to thrive in an evolving educational landscape.

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Title II Accessibility Consultations

Zoom or In Person

During these consultations, instructional designers meet with faculty members to get real-time support to improve course accessibility and boost Ally scores.

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Timely Tools for Student Success: End-of-Term

Help students prepare for finals

Craft and share a plan for helping students prepare for finals. Be as specific as possible. Suggest effective study strategies such as spaced practice, elaboration, interleaving, concrete examples, retrieval practice, or dual coding.  

Submit Final Grades

If you set up a grading scheme in Canvas at the beginning of the term, you will be able to import grades from Canvas to MyRed. Instructions for manual entry along with importing from Canvas are available from the Office of the University Registrar.

Make notes on the syllabus

Take time to make notes on the course syllabus to inform the next iteration of the course.

Debrief with others

If you are the only instructor who teaches this course, consider debriefing with an instructional designer assigned to your college. Instructional designers love to hear how your course went and can help you research and identify solutions for challenges that came up during the term. Along with an instructional designer, consider debriefing with other instructors who teach the same course. If the course is part of a sequence, consider debriefing with instructors that teach other courses in the sequence.

Implement another element of the Inclusive Course Checklist

Take a look at the Inclusive Course Checklist and see if there are more items that you might tick off in preparation for teaching the course next time. Instructional designers can help review your course for opportunities and help you prioritize which changes may have the most impact.

Study Strategies that Work

The Learning Scientists YouTube Channel aims to make scientific research on learning more accessible to students, teachers, and other educators. Towards this end, in addition to their videos, they provide a website chock full of resources and a podcast.  Here are six succinctly described strategies your students can use as they prepare for final exams. 

  1. spaced practice
  2. elaboration
  3. interleaving
  4. concrete examples
  5. retrieval practice
  6. dual coding

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An instructional designer can assist you in many areas of teaching.