Shepherd University Center for Student Academic Enrichment

04/27/2023

08/27/2021

To celebrate 150 years CTL will post 150 ways we support faculty, staff, and students. Check it out every Friday.

04/06/2021

Yes! Yes! Yes!

A flexible design strategy that reinforces new content knowledge and skills, offers opportunities for practice, lowers stress & reduces the incentive to cheat.

03/18/2021

CTL awarded $3,425 in grants this year! Learn how recipients used these CTL mini-grants and how you can apply for up to $1000 in grant funding for next year. Join us! March 22: 12:10-1:00 and March 23 12:35-1:25.

03/07/2021

The “Go Online on Your Timeline: Pick Your Pace Pedagogy” (PPP) training program is the first of its kind at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Early in the months of Covid, the Center for Teaching and Learning team decided to “package” its free online training experience in different ways in order to best suit the learning styles and schedules of our institution’s professors and working professionals.

We are excited to be sharing our work at this year's OLC Innovate on March 17th! Scarborough Library Shepherd University

03/02/2021

Thank you to Sher Hendrickson-Lambert, Associate Professor of Biology, for sharing this with me. We focus so much on the negative side of Covid-19, but there are many positive impacts on teaching as well.
© Stephen Heard January 18, 2021 shares some in his blog below. Well worth the read! Scarborough Library

Well, I survived – barely – my first full semester of teaching online;* and I’ve jumped into my second. Will it be the last? My colleagues certainly hope so, with “I can’t wait to get back in the c…

02/23/2021

This makes me excited about eating cookies, er, using rubrics...

Use a cookie-evaluation activity to teach students how to use a rubric.

02/09/2021

The Center for Teaching and Learning was proud to sponsor this opportunity through an Assessment Mini-Grant. This is just one more example of how assessment provides wonderful learning opportunities for our students. Interested in how you can obtain a mini-grant, or in learning achievements gained through this process? Visit https://www.shepherd.edu/ctl/ctl-mini-grants and join us for our 14th annual Celebration of Student Learning on March 22nd and 23rd. Scarborough Library

If you're a social worker— here's an opportunity to participate in professional development! The first workshop, “Building Resilience among Young Adults with Histories of Trauma,” presented by Wendy Baracka, LICSW, Shepherd’s director of Counseling Services, is Wednesday, February 10, at 2 p.m. https://tinyurl.com/ydscveb9

01/31/2021

The Center for Teaching and Learning was proud to sponsor this opportunity through an Assessment Mini-Grant. This is just one example of how assessment provides wonderful learning opportunities for our students. Interested in how you can obtain a mini-grant, or in learning achievements gained through this process? Visit https://www.shepherd.edu/ctl/ctl-mini-grants and join us for our 14th annual Celebration of Student Learning on March 22nd and 23rd. Scarborough Library

Five education students are hoping their attendance at the National Council for the Social Studies National Conference will help make them better teachers one day. Secondary education majors Sarah Florak, Shepherdstown, Alicen Hoover, Martinsburg, Kameron Kesner, Purgitsville, Leanna Basye, Baker, and Cody Bitner, Hagerstown, Maryland, joined Dr. Jason Allen, assistant professor of education, in attending the conference, which had a theme of "Advancing Social Justice" and featured many nationally known speakers. https://tinyurl.com/y3f2y6ct

01/30/2021

"..A thoughtful article about student workload and why so many students profess to feeling overwhelmed."

Student workload overload, re-examining "participation" and collaboration, and a helpful collection of online teaching principles.