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The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers programs and services to enhance the quality of educational experiences at Clark University. These programs center around the Learn Through Inquiry signature of Clark University.
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Services Description
The Colleges of Worcester Consortium Certificate in College Teaching
Program
The certificate program is designed for graduate students, adjunct faculty,
and full-time faculty who are either pursuing or engaging in a career in
academia. This program offers graduate students and faculty the opportunity to
learn best practices in college teaching with the theoretical background that
supports it. Courses may be taken “a la carte” or in pursuit of the 1.5-unit
Certificate in College Teaching. Clark faculty and graduate students may qualify
for tuition reimbursement for Certificate courses.
Peer Learning Assistants
Are undergraduate students
selected by the faculty member to facilitate teaching and learning activities
that might otherwise be difficult for the faculty member to carry out by
him/herself. Experience at other institutions and in several FYSs and
other introductory level courses at Clark has shown that PLAs are most
useful in facilitative roles, e.g. giving students feedback on early drafts
of writing, leading small group discussions, working with individual
students who are having difficulty, facilitating group project work (in or
out of class), and/or facilitating online discussions on Blackboard. Because
they are undergraduates, as is the practice at Clark, PLAs do not grade
student work, and they generally do not have the content expertise to serve
as substitutes for graduate teaching assistants. PLAs are paid $8.50 per
hour from federal work-study funds or from other institutional
funds, or some choose to take academic credit (e.g. independent study or
directed reading) for their work. PLAs generally work about 10-15 hr/wk.
CETL offers:
- assistance in redesigning your course to incorporate the inquiry
based learning that PLAs can help to facilitate
- logistical assistance for hiring and managing PLAs; and
- training for PLAs and the faculty who employ them.
To discuss how PLAs might help improve your students’ learning while reducing
your workload, please contact Judy Miller (judmiller@clarku.edu).
Private Consultation Services
We offer confidential
individual teaching consultations to anyone who teaches at Clark, including full
time and part time faculty and graduate teaching assistants. Consultations are
typically requested when an instructor has a specific teaching area in which
s/he has questions or wishes to improve, but can also be requested for more
general teaching feedback. A consultation typically begins with a meeting to
determine your interests and needs and to review your course. If you wish, we
may proceed to one or more classroom observations, with written feedback
provided, and/or continue with additional meetings. Other possibilities include,
but are not limited to, videotaping your class and reviewing your student
ratings. You make the decisions, and we tailor the consultation to your needs
and available time. Most importantly, the consultation is completely
confidential. Unless you choose to share information or reports with other
people, no one else will ever know that the consultation took place, let alone
its content or results. Consultations are done by Judy Miller.
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