Register for the 2018 Provost Academy!
Registration is open for the 2018 Provost Academy! 2018 Provost Academy for Teaching Excellence May 14 & 15 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. both days...
Students learn best when they are in a positive and safe environment that engages and challenges them intellectually. The following teaching tips are a mix of self-paced modules, recorded presentations and workshops, handbooks, guides, and articles created by us, other institutions, and thought leaders, to enhance teaching, engage students, and create innovative instruction for student success and educational excellence.
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An Invisible Syndrome
March 28, 2018 An Invisible Syndrome: perspectives from a first-gen faculty member — Dr. Shelley Howell, TLS Consultant and UTSA Lecturer I remember the first...
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Learning in Groups
February 27, 2018 Group work. The mere mention of it sends students off on a rant about unproductive peers, poorly crafted research papers, and time...
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Assigning Group Work (That Works)
February 19, 2018 Students hate group work. From meetings with no agendas to students who stop showing up and projects in which one person completes...
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NTT Faculty Appreciation at the Downtown Campus
February 14, 2018 In late January, Teaching & Learning Services and the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars partnered to host a day-long celebration of UTSA’s...
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Beat the Cheat
January 30, 2018 Cheating happens. It happens online. It happens face-to-face. It happens at Ivy League Universities. It happens on tests. It happens on papers....
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Mindful Makeups for Cancelled Classes
January 17, 2018 As kids, we exuberantly embraced holidays created by Mother Nature. As instructors, however, cancellations create scheduling complications and concerns about missing important...
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Let’s Make This The Semester We Reach That One Student
January 9, 2018 We’ve all had that student who seems uninterested in being in our class. You know the one we mean: He sits in...
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The Power of One
In our consultations, conversations with faculty inevitably steer toward concerns about time and the challenges of change. As we begin a new semester and a...
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Have a great semester break!
The end of the semester brings a sense of accomplishment, a frustration about things undone, and the eternal hope of a new semester. How...