Teaching Excellence Newsletter
and CITLS Updates

May 6, 2020

Announcing 2020 - 2021
CITLS Distinguished Teaching Fellows

 

CITLS is pleased to announce that Dave Sunderlin, Associate Professor of Geology, and Chris Phillips, Professor of English, are the 2020 - 21 CITLS Distinguished Teaching Fellows. Both fellows were selected by the CITLS Faculty Advisory Board and will pursue important topics during this time of uncertainty and move to various online teaching modalities.

Dave Sunderlin will focus his fellowship period on field-based pedagogy which involves active, engaged learning experiences. During his fellowship year, he plans to showcase what fieldwork looks like across disciplines, integrate work he has already started in creating virtual field teaching resources for students, and further excellence in field-based pedagogy through the scholarship of teaching and learning. His efforts will be highly relevant during this time period as we consider various ways to engage our learners regardless of modality.  

Given the increasing number of student mental health and well-being concerns prior to and during the COVID-19 crisis, and their implications on teaching and learning, CITLS will offer programming and resources on these topics in the coming year. Chris Phillip’s focus on contemplative pedagogy will align with these goals and our Lafayette values to teach the whole student. Contemplative pedagogy continues to be embraced by instructors at institutions of higher education and have positive impacts. 

You will hear more from Dave and Chris in the coming year! We thank all faculty who applied to the fellowship program.  

Virtual Course Design Institute


Deadline: This Friday, May 8th 

We are pleased to offer a virtual version of the Summer Course Design Institute from June 1st - 3rd. The institute will run from 8:45 am to 12:30 pm each day, include breaks and involve interactive sessions to support all faculty who are designing a new course or revising an existing one.

During the institute faculty will also have time to reflect on their remote teaching experiences with colleagues. 

For more details and to apply please click the button below. 

Resource:
Effective Writing Assignment Design

Are you considering designing or revising a writing assignment this summer? If so, please be aware that CITLS and the College Writing Program collaborated to create a resource that can help instructors to create meaningful, engaging and enjoyable writing assignments. 

Special Announcement:
Preparing College Course Evaluation Form for Data Analysis

If you downloaded and distributed the College Course Evaluation Spring 2020 Form on Qualtrics before May 6th, please use this resource to recode the data so that your analysis matches the scale typically used on the form (e.g. Strongly Agree = 5, Agree = 4, etc.). Halfway down the resource you will see a section called "Recoding Values and Changing Variable Names," which will take you through the steps on how to recode values for Likert-scale questions. If you downloaded and used the form after May 6th, then your reports have already been modified to match what is typically seen on course evaluations at Lafayette. Please reach out to CITLS (citls@lafayette.edu) or ITS (help@lafayette.edu) with any questions.