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Services
 Workshops
CETL offers workshops for all OCU faculty (full-time and adjunct) during the fall and spring semesters. Workshop topics range from course design to technology. For more information see the CETL calendar.
Portfolio Training
- Teaching Portfolios
CETL provides training to OCU faculty on how to produce a teaching portfolio—a collection of materials that documents teaching performance and includes an instructor’s self-reflection and intellectual work as a teacher. Faculty who are preparing for promotion and tenure are typically expected to provide a teaching portfolio. OCU faculty interested in receiving assistance with teaching portfolios should contact CETL. Next Teaching Portfolio Retreat - January 15-16, 2010. Learn More
 - Course Portfolios
A course portfolio is a scholarly examination of how a particular course was created, designed, and enacted. Perhaps most importantly, a course portfolio documents what students learned and how that learning occurred. The process of producing a course portfolio—the exercise of reflecting and documenting—can be transformative for faculty; they become reflective practitioners who interrogate their own teaching practices. Producing a course portfolio is a significant step toward making one’s teaching practices public and may lead to identifying research problems for work in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Travel Grants
Faculty are encouraged to apply to CETL for travel grants. Preference will be given to those applications for attending conferences and/or presenting papers related to arts integration. However, applications will also be considered for faculty who wish to attend and/or present at conferences focused on teaching and learning.
Online Resources
View helpful links, videos and other resources for integrating art across the curriculum.
 Faculty Learning Communities
A faculty learning community is a group of trans-disciplinary faculty, typically comprised of approximately 8-10 members who gather on a regular basis (usually at least once every 3 weeks). Faculty learning communities provide opportunities for learning, development, transdisciplinarity, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and community building. At OCU we have formed faculty learning communities focused on topics such as arts integration, the scholarship of teaching and learning, teaching with technology, and service learning. If you would like to join a faculty learning community please contact CETL.
Teaching Partnerships
Similar to a mentoring relationship, a teaching partnership is intentionally designed to be a two-way, mutually beneficial learning experience for both teaching partners. Each teaching partner visits and observes the teaching of their partner on at least two separate occasions (i.e., two class sessions). The objective is to encourage teaching partners to have conversations in which they share and discuss their observations and philosophies of teaching and best practices with each other. If you are interested, contact CETL and we will help you find a teaching partner.
Individual Consultation
CETL provides one-on-one consultation services to OCU faculty. These consultations may include classroom observations, collecting data, providing feedback, and discussions about teaching theories and practices. This confidential service is available to OCU faculty upon request by contacting Chris Garrett.
Small Group Instructional Diagnosis
Upon request by OCU faculty, CETL can conduct a small group instructional diagnosis (SGID). The SGID process, facilitated by the CETL Director, gathers feedback about teaching from students typically around midterm. This feedback is then shared in a confidential manner with the instructor. Please contact Chris Garrett for more information.
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