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Upcoming CELT Programs
Entering its 12th year with over 130 faculty having participated, this program is a unique opportunity for faculty to participate in an interdisciplinary collegial group to increase their knowledge about teaching and learning.
Spring Series on Dialogue in the Classroom.
March 2
March 10
March 30, April 6
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Timely Tips
In this short article, Donna Qualters, Director of CELT, describes the elements of ethical inquiry in the classroom in a framework that works across disciplines.
A lab instructor explores ways to deal with students' frustration, and her own when experiments "fail."
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Faculty Spotlight
Cathy Drennan, PhD
Professor of Chemistry and Biology, MIT
Last year Professor Drennan visited the Tufts Large Lecture Consortium to share her research on what she called "selective pressures" she used to increase student engagement and inclusive practices in her large lecture (500 first year students) core chemistry course that is taken by many non-majors. To read more about her course,
click here.
Supported by an HHMI grant, her team created short films for her course that feature diverse recent graduates applying principles learned in her class to their work. She showed the clips as she introduced each new principle. The intent was to increase engagement, demonstrate the relevance of the principles, and bring diversity into a course where there is little diversity.
Click here to see some of the videos.
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