Santa Clara University

Teaching and Learning

Programs, services, and resources at SCU

• Confidential consultations on teaching: Contact Eileen Razzari Elrod, eelrod@scu.edu , for an appointment.
  
• Classroom observations: Arrange for a trained observer to visit and observe your class and then interview students using Small Group Instructional Response (SGIR).
• Events sponsored by Faculty Development include panel discussions and workshops on a wide range of issues in teaching and learning.
• VITAL: Vitality in Teaching and Learning (VITAL) is a group of SCU faculty who meet once or twice a quarter to discuss issues in teaching and learning. All faculty are welcome. See the schedule of events for this quarter’s meetings.
• Key Contacts for Faculty: A directory of important and useful contacts around campus.
  
• Course Development and Classroom Management: Techniques for the New Professor. A guide by Professor Phil Kesten.
• Who are your first-year students, anyway?  Check out Beloit's annual list.
  
• Mentoring for Faculty:  The Faculty Development Program can match tenure-track and tenured faculty to faculty mentors outside their department to assist with teaching, scholarship, and career planning.
• Open Classrooms: Opportunities to visit the classrooms of excellent professors.
• SALG: Student Assessment of their Learning Gains (SALG) is a free course-evaluation tool to gather learning-focused feedback from students. For more information visit their web site, or contact Stephen Carroll (scarroll@scu.edu).
  
• Grants: Information and application instructions for internal SCU sources of funding for scholarship and teaching, and links to information about external grants
• Faculty study groups:  Grants of up to $500 for food, reading materials, and other expenses of interdisciplinary groups of faculty who wish to gather regularly for discussions of scholarship or teaching.
• Ethics Across the Curriculum Consultations: Assistance incorporating ethics into SCU undergraduate courses in any department.
• Faculty Development Library: books and videos on teaching and learning
• The Teaching Scholar: The Newsletter of the Faculty Development Program
• Technology Training: Training and support for faculty in the use of information technology.
• Mentoring a student RA
  
  

Resources on the web

• The MERLOT ELIXR Initiative: CSU's digital case story repository contains discipline-specific multimedia stories on instructional topics such as First Day, Understanding Our Students, innovative Teaching Strategies, Course Design and more.
  
• Solve a teaching problem: A user-friendly interactive resource with solutions to common teaching problems, from the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Tomorrow’s Professor: An extensive archive of useful short articles on teaching, research, and  faculty careers, sponsored by the Stanford Center on Teaching and Learning. You can subscribe to receive new postings by email.
• Speaking of Teaching: Newsletter of the Stanford Center on Teaching and Learning.
• Pedagogy in Action: Many excellent resources for teaching and learning from the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College. Not just for the sciences!
• Technology in Teaching: A blog and a wiki brought to you by SCU’s Leavey School of Business.
• Sustainability at SCU
• Disability Resources at SCU
  

Faculty Development Program

Eileen Razzari Elrod
Assoc. Vice Provost for Faculty Development
St. Joseph's Hall, #124
408-554-4136

Anne Riconosciuto
Administrative Associate
St. Joseph's Hall, #113
408-554-2746