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TAMU Strategic Evaluation Plans: Graduate Teaching Academy. GTASC recognized the need to identify learning outcomes as a way of "knowing where we are headed" with the participant's experience.
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TAMU Strategic Evaluation Plans:Graduate Teaching Academy GTASC recognized the need to identify learning outcomes as a way of "knowing where we are headed" with the participant's experience. We were interested in updating the program to itself model effective teaching and try to build into it a measure of active participation that seemed to be lacking in the past. • GTA fellows can design effective and inclusive courses that align learning activities with learning objectives and assessments. • CIRTL Fellow: effective teaching • Maps to learning communities and diversity pillars • GTA projects as TAR?
TAMU Strategic Evaluation Plans:College Alignment for Collaboration Program The design of the CAoC program emphasizes three characteristics: (1) teaching as research, (2) the development of faculty-graduate student teams, and (3) flexibility to allow program curricula to be customized to disciplinary or college contexts. • CAoC fellows support changing undergrad learning experiences at Texas A&M to meet University goals focused on inquiry-based learning and engaging undergraduates in research. • CIRTL Practitioner: scholarly teaching • Maps to learning communities, diversity and TAR