Occidental College
Center for Teaching Excellence
Talking About Teaching
Throughout the year, the CTE holds several Talking about Teaching lunches.
At these events, faculty discuss a specific aspect of teaching over lunch. The conversation is sometimes led by a guest speaker from outside the Oxy community, sometimes by a panel of faculty or of students, and sometimes centered around pre-circulated scholarship of teaching and learning. Below is a list of current-year Talking about Teaching lunch topics, as well as topics from recent years.
AY 2012-2013 topics
- Grades and grading
- The achievement gap at well-resourced institutions of higher education
- Writing effective letters of recommendation
- Oxy student writing: lessons and advice from CAE Writing Tutors (student panel)
Past year topics
- Racial and Ethnic Diversity and the Liberal Arts College Classroom
- Instructional Technology: Lessons from the Summer Digital Institute and the iPad Faculty Learning Community
- Teaching the Millenials
- How We Do or Don't Account for Our Own Political Beliefs in Our Teaching
- Teaching with Clickers
- Maximizing Student Learning in Small Groups
- CTE Director: Kristi Upson-Saia, Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies
- Office: Fowler 402
- Phone: (323) 259-2855
- Email: upsonsaia@oxy.edu