Teaching and Learning Center, Temple University

Provost Lisa Staiano-Coico has supported the TLC to launch a new Teaching and Learning initiative, the Provost’s Teaching Academy. The program will bring together twenty faculty members, selected from across the university, to participate in a Teaching in Higher Education working group facilitated by TLC staff. Faculty members will read and discuss current theory and research-based practices in higher education, in preparation for teaching this content to Temple graduate students who are preparing for teaching and academic careers. These faculty members will comprise the first cohort of the new Provost’s Teaching Academy.

Health Sciences Summer
Teaching Institute
Monday, August 17 - Thursday, August 20, 2009
Health Sciences Campus

Co-sponsored by the Temple University Schools of
Medicine, Dentistry, Podiatry, Pharmacy and The College of Health Professions

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Project EDIT is a collaborative effort of Temple’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) and Disability Resources and Services (DRS) on a fundamental goal common to both: to foster teaching that meets all students’ needs and maximizes their success. Funded by the Verizon Foundation, Project EDIT brings together fifteen Temple faculty members from eight different schools. During the 2009-2010 academic year, this cohort will explore approaches to course design, teaching, and assessment that both respond to and take advantage of the unique configuration of challenges, skills, and perspectives each student brings to the classroom. Drawing on the many dimensions of diversity present within their own group, Project EDIT faculty will both learn and teach as they attend workshops, share strategies, observe one another’s classes, and analyze their own assumptions and practices. Through their ongoing efforts to create a learning environment that is accessible and engaging for every student, participants will also emerge from their Project EDIT experience as resources for colleagues throughout the university. The Project EDIT Coordinator is Amy Weigand.