Educational Development and Teaching Enhancement
Source: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/center-learning-and-teaching/educational-development-teaching-enhancement Parent: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/center-learning-and-teaching/educational-development-teaching-enhancement/teaching-assistants-and-graduate-students-professional-development-program
The Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) offers a variety of services and programs for teaching enhancement at The American University in Cairo (AUC), among these are: faculty workshops, teaching and learning institutes and professional development programs, campus-wide symposia and fora, a bi-weekly newsletter to share insights, experiences, and information about the most recent trends in higher education, in addition to pedagogical consultations.
Faculty Workshops
CLT workshops reflect on the opportunities, challenges, and many lessons learned from the global pandemic that had flung us all into new ways of exploring our abilities and imagination in the new normal learning space.
Faculty Programs and Opportunities
Check the current CLT Programs and Opportunities
- Experiential Learning and Design Thinking
- The Faculty Institute of Learning and Teaching Program
- Other Educational Development Activities
- [### Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students Professional Development Program (TAGS)
The Teaching Assistants and Graduate Students (TAGS) Professional Development Program aims to provide professional development opportunities for AUC teaching assistants and graduate students.](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/center-learning-and-teaching/educational-development-teaching-enhancement/teaching-assistants-and-graduate-students-professional-development-program) - [### Experiential Learning and Design Thinking
CLT's goal is to integrate design thinking into the curriculum across disciplines to develop students’ creative and entrepreneurial thinking skills.](https://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/center-learning-and-teaching/educational-development-teaching-enhancement/experiential-learning-design-thinking)
Teaching Resources
Teaching Tips and Strategies
- High Impact Practices (Carleton University)
- Types of Experiential Learning (Carleton University)
- Teaching Tips from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Teaching and Learning Frameworks | Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning (yale.edu)
Assessment, Feedback and Grading
- Types of Rubrics
- Evaluate Course Level Learning
- Assessment Tools
- Grading Student Work
- Learner-Centred Principles for Effective Feedback
- Alternative Strategies for Assessment and Grading - Duke Learning Innovation
Student Activities and Group Work
- Team-Based Learning (Vanderbilt University)
- Team Work that Works
- Implementing Group Work in the Classroom (University of Waterloo)
- Group Work Policy (The University of Sheffield )
- Types of Small Group Activities (University of Waterloo)
- Teaching with Case Studies