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Tuesday Teaching Tips

Each week, we will bring you an easy-to-implement tool that you can use immediately in your classroom teaching. Tips are written by our Faculty Associates and campus partners to aid in building your teaching toolbox.

Tuesday Teaching Tips

Getting Started Teaching

Are you new to teaching and/or SCU? Not sure where to start planning for your course? Here are the essential resources to get you started.

Getting Started Teaching

Ignatian Pedagogy

Learn how Ignatian Pedagogy facilitates competence, conscience, and compassion in the classroom.

Ignatian Pedagogy

Digital Resources for Teaching (DRT)

Explore DRT, our collaborative digital database of evidence-based, justice-driven techniques, strategies, and ideas to aid faculty in continually innovating their curriculum and instructional approaches.

Digital Resources for Teaching (DRT)

SWIRL

The Success in Writing, Information, and Research Literacy Initiative draws upon research-informed best practices for teaching and learning that seek to promote students’ success.

SWIRL

Teaching Grants

The Center for Teaching Excellence, in collaboration with Faculty Development and Academic Technology, offers a range of grants to support teaching innovation.

Teaching Grants

CAFEs

Focused on imaginative, effective teaching and learning, Conversations Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFEs) draw faculty from a range of disciplines to engage in thoughtful dialogue. CAFEs cover a variety of topics across teaching, service, and career path development.

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Who We Are

Find out more about the collaborative community building the Center for Teaching Excellence

Faculty Development

Access programming and resources related to faculty life-cycles, mentoring, leadership and professional skills development, work-life balance, and community-building

Vision:

The Center for Teaching Excellence at Santa Clara University will empower educators to create academic experiences that allow students to thrive and evolve as learners. 

 

Values:

We create a dynamic and collaborative educational environment where educators grow together in a shared commitment to engage in evidence-based, justice-driven pedagogies. Rooted in Ignatian pedagogical practices, we empower educators to be reflective, lifelong learners who advance the pursuit of equity and academic excellence in their development of consciousness, competence, compassion and community.

Top 6 Word Rankings:
  1. Evidence-based
  2. Academic Excellence
  3. Collaborative
  4. High-impact Practices
  5. Competence
  6. Educating for Social Change

 

Understanding our language through Ignatian pedagogy and Jesuit values

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These 8 content areas were identified as most important

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