The Center for Teaching Excellence at St. Edward’s University promotes engaged and effective teaching that cultivates significant student learning. The CTE fosters a campus culture that values a diversity of learning, teaching, and disciplinary styles, promotes honest discussion of teaching and learning, and encourages the scholarship of teaching and learning.

To accomplish these goals, the CTE supports faculty in developing courses, facilitates the exchange of ideas about teaching and learning among faculty, offers resources for faculty, collaborates with Instructional Computing to promote technology resources for teaching, and recognizes outstanding teachers with teaching awards.

What’s New

• Faculty Circle – New Faculty Meeting
  November  10, 2008
  This gathering will focus on service and, in particular, how to assemble service opportunities during your first several years. Panelists will provide an overview of service opportunities & offer their own suggestions for what counts as service at SEU; share first-hand reports about the value of different kinds of committee service; explain their own views about how service might figure into faculty evaluations; outline how to assemble a manageable service load; and offer tips on how to discuss service in annual self-evaluations. Coffee and snacks provided. Feel free to bring a lunch. Please RSVP to ensure a place!
• Faculty Circle – Online and Blended Learning Meeting
  November 12, 2008
  Our second Teaching Online Faculty Circle meeting will introduce you to a key technological tool, Elluminate, and demonstrate how one faculty member is using it to create an interactive blended course.  The group will talk about how to keep an interactive, personal feeling in online, blended, or web-enhanced courses; ways to cope with technology challenges; class preparation and organization to keep up with the demands of an online or blended course as well as providing an opportunity to interact with other faculty and share ideas. Coffee and snacks provided. Feel free to bring a lunch. Please RSVP to ensure a place!

Focus on Faculty

St. Edward's congratulates the 2008-09 winners of teaching awards.

• Distinguished Teaching Career Award:
  Henry Altmiller, School of Natural Sciences
• Distinguished Teaching Award:
  Danney Ursery, New College
  Jeannetta Williams, School of Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award
  Susan Whiteside, School of Humanities
• Hudspeth Award for Innovative Instruction
  Vagdevi Meunier, New College