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Adjunct Faculty Retreats - information on the Faculty Center's Adjunct Retreat, including links to registration forms for upcoming retreats. Course Innovation Projects (CIP) - funded workshop series on special topics toward revising courses substantially. Faculty Center's 10th Anniversary - video and images of our celebration on January 11, 2008. GTA Programs - information on Faculty Center programs designed to enhance the professional development of Graduate Teaching Assistants at UCF. New Faculty Orientation - includes information on the Faculty Center's faculty orientation programs, as well as resources from past orientations such as downloadable PowerPoint presentations. Teaching Circles - Join your colleagues from around the campus as we explore topics of common interest in informal “brown bag” roundtable sessions. Previous topics have included a book club on Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind, Teaching Circles for honors instructors, and open-topic Teaching Circles. SoTL Faculty Showcase - At our annual Faculty Showcase of Creative Teaching practices and SoTL Research we allow UCF faculty a chance to share their SoTL projects that have been completed, are in progress, or are merely planned, as well as display posters that share teaching practices. |
Teaching With Technology Grant - Information about the Teaching with Technology Grant, part of the annual International Conference on College Teaching and Learning held in Jacksonville, FL. Summer Conference - information on upcoming and past Faculty Center Summer Conferences, including an archive of past conference agendas and content. Tech Camp - information about the annual two-day event to inform faculty about newer instructional technologies and give them a chance to create their own.. Winter Conference - features information on upcoming and past Faculty Center Winter Conferences, including an archive of past conference agendas and content. Workshops - includes link to upcoming Faculty Center workshops, as well as an archive of past workshops offered. |
Victoria Loerzel
College of College of Nursing
As a nurse and educator, my teaching philosophy revolves around the belief that it is my responsibility to provide nursing students with a solid foundation for safe and appropriate nursing practice. I believe students are adult learners and should be self-motivated and in charge of their own learning. However, stu...
Alizera Rahrooh
College of Engineering and Computer Science
A "teaching philosophy" is a set of general
principles used to guide practice. Mine is mostly second hand; some of it is
gained by the many good teachers that I encountered in my education and some of
it shaped by the insistent and critical students I have taught since first
entering a college classroom as an ...
Peter Jacques
College of Sciences
My teaching philosophy is simple: cultivate what works for students!
Executing this philosophy is decidedly more difficult than just saying it, but my goal is to engage students in the classroom in a way that effectively helps them learn. Long lectures do not appear to be as effective as we used to think (though ...