Teaching
Teaching at UCSC:
The UCSC Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) has a dedicated staff to help you, with resources for designing courses, creating effective syllabi, active teaching, and inclusive teaching as well as workshops, a teaching fellows program and advice on documenting your teaching for personnel reviews.
Here are some sample resources from CITL:
- Resources for documenting your teaching for personnel reviews.
- Designing courses: Important Information about focusing on student learning.
- Incorporation of active learning techniques in your courses.
In addition, the UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Teaching adjudicates the Excellence in Teaching awards each year, and has compiled interviews with award winning teachers on campus, with their statements about teaching and sample syllabi.
Here are some sample resources from the COT:
- Video on designing a course: Raoul Birnbaum, Professor in the History of Art & Visual Culture Department.
- Information from UCSC Excellence in Teaching Award recipients: Links to UCSC faculty pages, sample syllabi, and extended interviews.
Useful information on Inclusive or Universal Design for Instruction (UDI): Suggestions compiled by the UC Santa Cruz Director of the Disability Resource Center (DRC), Rick Gaubusk that includes:
- Always use captioned videos and only purchase videos that are already captioned.
- Use a syllabus statement that encourages students to come to your office hours to share their disability related access needed.
- Post articles and required reading lists early so that the DRC can convert materials for students using assistive technology to access reading texts.
Resources to help your students succeed at UCSC:
- Learning Support Services: Tutoring for math and writing.
- Westside Writing Center: Writing consultation services and tutoring designed to teach and support undergraduate students in all aspects of scholastic writing, for students living on the west side of campus.
- Kresge's Writing Center: Writing tutoring is available at the center each quarter.
- Services for Transfer and Re-entry students (STARS)
Teaching Resources from outside UCSC:
The CCA has also developed some resources, as well as curated additional useful resources for teaching from other organizations:
- 2018 Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia: Five principles of inclusive teaching and related classroom strategies.
- New to College Teaching Starter Kit: The Chronicle of Higher Education has created a 40-page comprehensive covering everything from planning lectures to dealing with difficult classroom conversations.
A 2017 Guide to support undergraduate teaching by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discusses the art of teaching and effective policies and practices.
