center for excellence in teaching & learning

CENTER for

EXCELLENCE in

TEACHING & LEARNING

www.stcloudstate.edu/teaching

CETL Goals• Celebrate, reward, and support faculty and staff who focus on

learning.• Provide a space for introspection and reflection. • Create a thematic and integrated year-long focus on teaching and

learning with on-going programming instead of the traditional model of staff development through one-time faculty/staff development initiatives such as conferences or workshops.

• Encourage a shared responsibility in the campus community to anchor learning and teaching in the context of the university mission and learning commitments.

• Focus on specific needs of the different groups within the campus community: senior faculty, new faculty, leaders, staff, etc.

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January Workshops Purpose

• Update campus community and set the tone for the upcoming semester. (President’s Address)

• Provide an opportunity for Faculty and Professional Learning Communities to regroup and set goals for Spring semester.

• Provide a context for university-wide strategic conversations. (Informational Sessions)

• Provide opportunities for professional development mainly around technology.

January WorkshopsEvents

• College and Department meetings.• President’s address.• University-wide strategic and informational

sessions: Proposals invited from administrative units, co-governance committees and other university-wide task forces only.

• Technology professional development sessions. University-wide Proposals.

• FLC Retreat

Thematic Workshop Series

Purpose:• Provide the campus community with an on-going

workshop series during the semester around a strategic professional development theme with, perhaps, an intense and inspirational one-day experience as well. We hope to have the same theme Fall and Spring.

• Coordinate the programming around the theme with a planning committee comprised of faculty, staff and administrators.

Thematic Workshop Series

Spring Semester 2012: Health, Wellness, and Well-being.The Planning Committee included interested faculty and staff from the School of Health and Human Services, School of Public Affairs, and Student Life and Development.

Thematic Workshop Series2012-2013

• Holding the mirror to ourselves: A yearlong campus community exploration of approaches that foster a culture of engagement among faculty, staff, and students in teaching and learning.

• Planning Committee: Shahzad Ahmad, Debra Carlson, Carol Cooley, John Hoover, Brandon Johnson, Debra Leigh, Bob Lessinger, Miguel Martinez-Saenz, Jennifer Matzke, Steven McCullar, Eddah Mutua-Kombo, Jacquilline Nagila, Jane Olsen, Tracy Ore, Mary Soroko, Lalita Subrahmanyan, Caryn

Thole, Addie Turkowski, Jarrod Wiggins, Owen Zimpel.

Faculty & Professional Learning Communities

2010-2011: One FLC, 9 faculty, 250 students.

2011-2012: Five FLCs, 25 faculty and staff, 1000+ students.

2012-2013: Nine FLCs proposed, 33 participants, Applications Still Open!

Interactive e-Handbook• Four faculty team working with Technology

Consultants• Year long process started in summer.• Interactive, on-going process.• Wiki style format.

CETL FLC Online Learning By: Plamen Miltenoff

FLC CETL SCSUBy: Plamen Miltenoff

University-wide Strategic Involvement

Participation of Director on various committees and task forces in an ex-officio capacity:

– Strategic Planning Committee– Service Learning Advisory Committee– Online and Distributed Learning Task Force– University College Task Force– Assessment Steering Committee– Undergraduate Student Support Council– Technology Steering Committee

Administrative Support for CARE, CHGE