Events

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.

 

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Victoria Loerzel
College of College of Nursing Victoria Loerzel 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 Alizera  Rahrooh 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 Peter Jacques 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 ...