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Navigating Teaching at UTSA

UTSA is dedicated to providing all faculty with the support they need to be successful teachers in order to help our students succeed. The following...

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Create Your Teaching Philosophy

What is a teaching philosophy? A teaching philosophy is a self-reflective statement that identifies your goals for student learning, explains how your teaching achieves the...

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Build Your Teaching Portfolio

Teaching Portfolios provide explanations and evidence of your teaching experience. Faculty applying for teaching awards, undergoing reviews, or applying for grants or new positions use...

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Provost Academy

The Provost Academy provides an opportunity for UTSA faculty to come together to listen to teaching innovators, engage in dialogue about student learning, and explore...

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Department Workshops

The Teaching & Learning Services team hosts a variety of in-person and online faculty development workshops throughout the year that generally fall within the five...

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Faculty Learning Communities

Welcome our 2018-2019 Faculty Learning Community Members: Kristabel Aguero, Biology Kristabel is an alumni of the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Science and a first...

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Play@ UTSA – Teaching Strategies for Gamification

31 January 2023

Join this inaugural faculty panel to explore how to transform learning by engaging undergraduate and graduate students in a more interactive, creative, and collaborative environment in all course modalities. Through gamification, learners are challenged to work more toward mastery than grade-based academic achievement. This can lead to a more meaningful and deeper understanding of [...]

Faculty Coffee Hour

1 February 2023

The Faculty Coffee Hour is designed to provide faculty members with the space to discuss current issues they are facing in an inclusive and supportive environment. During these sessions Faculty work together on finding solutions, connecting to resources and encouraging diverse perspectives and ideas. Creating an inclusive learning environment is important to us. To [...]

Strategies for Inclusive Teaching Institute (SITI)

7 February 2023

This institute will run February 7 – April 4 and is taught in a hybrid format with sessions on February 7, 10am – 11am; February 15, 10am – 11am; February 21, 10am – 11am; March 1, 10am – 11am; March 21, 10am – 11am; March 29, 10am – 11am; & April 4, 10am – [...]

Accessibility Quick Fixes

7 February 2023

Making your course content accessible benefits all learners in your course. Making quick changes to your course content are easier than it looks! Join us to learn more about the quick changes you can make to your content to improve the learning experience for your students. By attending this course, participants will be able [...]

Faculty Mini-Retreat: Learner Engagement

7 February 2023

Join Academic Innovation to chat about how you can engage your learners via active learning techniques and experiential learning. We will provide you with hands-on personal experiences and ask you to incorporate what you learned to apply to your classroom materials. As a result, we will create a welcoming classroom environment that is engaging [...]

Teaching Support Hours

27 February 2023

Academic Innovation will be providing office hours for faculty to help with any teaching support needs for midterms. Creating an inclusive learning environment is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training. [...]

Teaching Support Hours

3 March 2023

Fostering Student Success with OER: A Conversation with Students, Faculty & Administrators

7 March 2023

In this UTSA Libraries & UTSA Academic Innovation sponsored panel, hear perspectives on open educational resources (OER) from a variety of UTSA stakeholders. UTSA Student Government will share the stresses of textbooks and why OER are a great fit for UTSA students. UTSA faculty will share how they are creating OER for their courses: [...]

Teaching Support Hours

10 May 2023

Academic Innovation will be providing office hours for faculty to help with any teaching support needs for finals. Creating an inclusive learning environment is important to us. To request an accommodation, please email DigitalAccessibility@utsa.edu one week prior to your scheduled training. [...]

Teaching Support Hours

12 May 2023