HOW CAN UCAT HELP YOU?
- TALK about your teaching with one of our professional consultants.
- PARTICIPATE in our workshops, seminars, grant programs, and learning communities.
- READ about teaching and learning from the scholars in our online teaching resource area and library.
FTAD is now UCAT!
In 2000, Faculty and TA Development (FTAD) began a revision of its services. This resulted in a refocusing of efforts to better address priorities for course redesign, learning outcomes assessments, and technology–enhanced teaching, learning, and research. Most of these changes move toward longer–term professional development for Ohio State faculty, staff, and GTAs, as well as significant new service areas––including greater support to academic units on teaching–related issues, such as GTA support, peer review of teaching, and curriculum development and assessment, along with the promotion of and assistance with the scholarship of teaching and learning.
FTAD's focus is aligned with that of Ohio State's Office of Academic Affairs(Link opens new window), to "stimulate and enable academic excellence". Our philosophy of practice explicates our mission, vision, objectives, and core principles.
In addition to providing support to individuals, our unit offers programs, communities, departmental partnerships, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Thus our unit has been renamed as the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, in order to better describe our mission, vision, objectives, and core principles.
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UCAT Events for Spring 2009
Throughout the year, UCAT facilitates workshops, forums, and seminars on a variety of issues concerning college teaching and learning. A calendar of university–wide events is also published in our quarterly Events on Teaching newsletter.
To view descriptions of UCAT events for the Spring Quarter 2009, click here>>.
All UCAT events, unless specified otherwise within an individual event description,
will be held at Ohio State's Younkin
Success Center. Click here>> to
learn more about transportation and parking options for attending events at the Younkin Success Center.
Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in College and University Teaching
This specialization is for any graduate student interested in engaging in a rigorous, structured exploration of the theories and practice of university–level teaching, both in general and in their own discipline. Participants will develop skills and experience that enable them to become reflective, scholarly teachers in preparation for entrance into the professoriate. It is most appropriate for applicants who are considering careers as college or university faculty. Click here>> for more information.
