Services

Course Management System consulting (Blackboard) - Bring your questions about how to make fuller use of Blackboard's features.  Workshops are offered several times throughout the academic year.

Grant Writing - Consult on funding possibilities for your idea.

Instructional Design technology consulting - Bring your questions about how to accomplish your pedagogical purpose with new software or methods.

IRB - Find out if your project needs Institutional Review Board approval, and how to proceed.

Resource Room (spreadsheet) - Books and other print resources available for checkout.

Service Learning - Receive assistance in arranging the logistics for service-learning projects in your courses.  Take advantage of the full-time efforts of our AmeriCorps*VISTA member.

Small-Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID):
--Conducted by a Center for Teaching and Learning Student Associate
--Conducted in your class session
--Unanimous feedback generated: 1) What in this course is helping you to learn? 2) What in this course is hindering your learning and 3) What suggestions do you have to fix it?
--The Center Director, Student Associate, and instructor review the findings, establish game plan
--Follow-up confidential letter

SoTL -- Carnegie Cluster/Carnegie Scholar - facilitating Truman's involvement in the Carnegie Cluster for Developing Newer Scholars in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).

Student Evaluation Consult - This is for you if: (1) You have to take Maalox before looking at your student evaluations; (2) your student evaluations leave you puzzled over what exactly to do next time; (3) student comments distract you from the main purposes of your course; or (4) you ignore student evaluations because there is nothing you can do to improve responses.  Get advice and perspective on what your student evaluations are really telling you.

The Teaching and Learning Technology Center (TLTC) - Learn/use emerging technology in a multimedia lab.

Teaching Observation Service - This is for you if: (1) You are a third-year faculty member putting together materials for the Third Year Formative Review; (2) you are a veteran faculty member who would like a second opinion about what's going on in your class; or (3) you would simply like to break the isolation barrier that often accompanies teaching.  Receive written feedback on your teaching from a trained observer; train faculty to conduct peer observations.

Videotaping - Capture your teaching for your own review in preparation for 3rd Year Formative Review, Promotion, or Tenure procedures. Taped by a Center for Teaching and Learning Student Associate, the tape then belongs to the instructor. Choose a professional review with the Center Director, choose to review it personally, or within the discipline.