CENTER for EXCELLENCE in TEACHING & LEARNING

1. CENTER forEXCELLENCE in TEACHING & LEARNING www.stcloudstate.edu/teaching

2. CETL Goals . • Celebrate, reward, and support faculty and staff who focus on learning. • Provide a space for introspection and reflection. • Create a thematic and integrated year-long focus on teaching and learning with on-going programming instead of the traditional model of staff development through one-time faculty/staff development initiatives such as conferences or workshops. • Encourage a shared responsibility in the campus community to anchor learning and teaching in the context of the university mission and learning commitments. • Focus on specific needs of the different groups within the campus community: senior faculty, new faculty, leaders, staff, etc.

6. January Workshops Purpose • Update campus community and set the tone for the upcoming semester. (President’s Address) • Provide an opportunity for Faculty and Professional Learning Communities to regroup and set goals for Spring semester. • Provide a context for university-wide strategic conversations. (Informational Sessions) • Provide opportunities for professional development mainly around technology.

7. January WorkshopsEvents • College and Department meetings. • President’s address. • University-wide strategic and informational sessions: Proposals invited from administrative units, co-governance committees and other university-wide task forces only. • Technology professional development sessions. University-wide Proposals. • FLC Retreat

9. Thematic Workshop Series Purpose: • Provide the campus community with an on-going workshop series during the semester around a strategic professional development theme with, perhaps, an intense and inspirational one-day experience as well.We hope to have the same theme Fall and Spring. • Coordinate the programming around the theme with a planning committee comprised of faculty, staff and administrators.

11. Thematic Workshop Series Spring Semester 2012:Health, Wellness, and Well-being. The Planning Committee included interested faculty and staff from the School of Health and Human Services, School of Public Affairs, and Student Life and Development.

13. Thematic Workshop Series 2012-2013 • Holding the mirror to ourselves: A yearlong campus community exploration of approaches that foster a culture of engagement among faculty, staff, and students in teaching and learning. • Planning Committee:Shahzad Ahmad, Debra Carlson, Carol Cooley, John Hoover, Brandon Johnson, Debra Leigh, Bob Lessinger, Miguel Martinez-Saenz, Jennifer Matzke, Steven McCullar, Eddah Mutua-Kombo, JacquillineNagila, Jane Olsen, Tracy Ore, Mary Soroko, Lalita Subrahmanyan, Caryn Thole, Addie Turkowski, Jarrod Wiggins, Owen Zimpel.

15. Faculty & Professional Learning Communities 2010-2011: One FLC, 9 faculty, 250 students. 2011-2012: Five FLCs, 25 faculty and staff, 1000+ students. 2012-2013: Nine FLCs proposed, 33 participants, Applications Still Open!

17. Interactive e-Handbook • Four faculty team working with Technology Consultants • Year long process started in summer. • Interactive, on-going process. • Wiki style format.

18. CETL FLC Online Learning By: PlamenMiltenoff

20. FLC CETL SCSUBy: PlamenMiltenoff

22. University-wide Strategic Involvement Participation of Director on various committees and task forces in an ex-officio capacity: • Strategic Planning Committee • Service Learning Advisory Committee • Online and Distributed Learning Task Force • University College Task Force • Assessment Steering Committee • Undergraduate Student Support Council • Technology Steering Committee Administrative Support for CARE, CHGE