Teaching Enhancement Program

The Teaching Enhancement Program at the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence offers a variety of programs to assist faculty, adjunct faculty and graduate teaching assistants in meeting their teaching objectives. Contact the CTE at 977-3944 or cte@slu.edu to learn more about any of the services listed below.

Teaching Consultations
Graduate teaching assistants and faculty may arrange confidential consultations with the Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence staff to analyze teaching, set goals, and modify teaching strategies.

Midterm Feedback Sessions and Small Group Instructional Feedback
The Center staff is available to facilitate midterm student feedback sessions including small group instructional feedback (SGIF) for interested faculty members. SGIF uses small group discussion among students to provide confidential information on what is going well and suggestions for improvement in a class.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
The Center supports SoTL work in a variety of ways, including: a monthly reading group, which reads and discusses current SoTL articles; a monthly working group, for faculty members with active SoTL projects underway; and an introductory SoTL how-to group, which reads literature on how to do SoTL projects and brainstorms appropriate project types suited to faculty members’ areas of study. To find out which SoTL group is for you, contact Debie Lohe at dlohe@slu.edu.

Book/Journal Club
The Center sponsors a Book/Journal Club. Generally each semester the Club reads and discusses one book or collection readings on teaching.

Pre-Tenured Faculty Portfolio Development Retreat
The Center hosts an annual retreat each spring for pre-tenured faculty to come together to analyze, reflect and organize evidence of good teaching, research and service into academic portfolio. Participants leave with a draft of their academic portfolio that illustrates their professional expertise and efforts to improve. Click here to read a report on how previous participants have benefited from the annual retreat.

Last updated 01.10.11

Resources
Tips on Teaching First Year Students

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Universal Instructional Design Leveling the playing field for all students

Clinical Teaching Resources for clinical preceptors, clinical instructors, fieldworkers and all other clinical educators.

Podcasts on Teaching

Ignatian Pedagogy

Book & Video Collection
CTE encourages faculty to explore books and videos on teaching by maintaining a growing library on the subject. Visit our office to browse the collection.