The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) website is designed to provide faculty, staff, and administrators with information about events and resources available to support learning and teaching at Oklahoma City University

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Oklahoma City University

TESTIMONIALS

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

“I think CETL is doing exactly what it needs to do. I now feel a connection with the other professors on campus and with the academic requirements of teaching good college curriculum.” –OCU faculty member

“I believe CETL is doing a great job in the broad selection of offerings and the invitations to interested faculty to join in the academies and groups. There is a heightened awareness and focus on excellence in teaching because of the work of the center.” –OCU faculty member

Teaching Portfolio Retreat (Roman Nose Resort, January 2008)

“I loved the retreat atmosphere, leaving campus, and turning this into a working-writing session.” -faculty participant

“I saw so many examples of ways to teach better that I am excited to go back to OCU and start working on my courses.” -faculty participant

“It was good to interact with faculty from other disciplines and to have structured time to reflect and begin to develop the [portfolio] materials.” -faculty participant

“Completing the teaching portfolio made me look at how I have set up some of the classes I teach and the style I use. I understand that the classes I am least happy with are the ones that do not match my real teaching style. For instance, I do not like straight lecture and the classes that are set up that way are the ones I do not like to do, have no energy for, and the students like the least. I prefer teaching with stories and case studies, and [so now I] will focus on changing the lecture classes to include more of these techniques.” –faculty participant


Faculty Teaching Academy

“The FTA Fellows program provided high-quality faculty development that is unparalleled! I have participated in numerous faculty development conferences in areas such as technology, research and grant writing, and effective teaching strategies; however, those presented by CETL have surpassed anything I’ve participated in—even at national venues.” – FTA Fellow

“I don’t know any faculty member that couldn’t benefit from this [the Faculty Teaching Academy program]. The best thing [about the FTA] for me was working with colleagues in different disciplines. It made me excited about being at a university and validated different goals I was trying to achieve to realize others were striving for similar things.” – FTA Fellow