The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) promotes your excellence in teaching by getting to know faculty and graduate students, learning together, fostering leadership, and bringing everyone together from across the University. You can reach out to us for consultations, attend virtual or physical workshops, or engage the print and web resources on teaching and academic success. CTE helps you focus on implementing evidence-based, high-impact educational practices within Duquesne's amazing community of teachers and learners.
Whether you're a faculty member or graduate student, CTE helps you to:
- Implement sound instructional strategies focused on student learning by embracing evidence-based pedagogical ideas and a spirit of innovation.
- Create well-designed courses and curriculum that incorporate strong learning-assessment strategies resulting in deep learning.
- Succeed as teacher-scholars engaged in pedagogical development and academic research in whatever stage they are in (tenure-track, tenured, non-tenure track, adjunct, teaching assistants).
- Approach personhood holistically with a view to understanding your students and yourselves as people balancing personal and academic demands.
- Feel like you belong and contribute to a community that values teaching excellence, collaboration and diversity.
Choose from the events and resources offered to determine what best contributes to
your professional and holistic development as an instructor at Duquesne. All Duquesne faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend CTE's workshops.
You can learn more about our workshops by following the link below. New to Duquesne? The Center for Teaching Excellence offers programs to welcome and
orient you to the teaching community at Duquesne, as well as helping you with the
transition to a new role (e.g., moving from adjunct or TA to full-time faculty). Every year, CTE celebrates the achievements of excellent faculty and graduate student
instructors at Duquesne University. These events allow you an opportunity to formally
celebrate with us and honor the achievements of faculty and graduate student award
recipients (listed below for the most recent academic year) as well as the amazing
support of peer leaders on campus and the hard work of those who have completed their
Certificate of University Teaching. If you want to succeed as a teacher-scholar engaged in pedagogical development and
academic research in whatever stage you are in (tenure-track, tenured, non-tenure
track, adjunct, teaching assistants), CTE has a variety of resources at your disposal
to help. The Flourishing Academic is a Duquesne University multi-voice blog devoted to exploring the question, “How can we as teacher-scholars thrive in academia?” The blog feature posts on teaching, learning, and academic career success by Duquesne
faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and the Center for Teaching Excellence
(CTE) staff, in addition to occasional guest writers from outside of the University.
Hope you visit us often, comment actively, and teach enthusiastically! Each year, CTE forms a committee to review the teaching portfolios of our many talented
graduate student instructors and teaching assistants. You can learn more about the
award and the application process by following the link below. The purpose of the Creative Teaching Awards is to recognize faculty members who have
implemented innovative ways of teaching and have assessed the impact of the innovation
on student learning. The innovation may have been used at other institutions or in
other fields, but must be newly adapted to your field at Duquesne. You can learn more
about this award, previous recipients, and the application process by following the
link below. Interested in revising some of your courses or switching up your instructional strategies?
CTE is happy to collaborate with you to help implement sound instructional strategies
focused on student learning by embracing evidence-based pedagogical ideas and a spirit
of innovation. Whether through consultations with CTE, preparing midsemester informal course evaluations,
reflecting on Student Perception of Teaching end of semester evaluations, or conducting
Peer Evaluations of Teaching, CTE is here to offer you assistance and support however
possible. Interested in a professional development certification process for graduate instructors
and teaching assistants? CTE created a certificate process to help build up the foundation
of your teaching competencies as well as understand how to then present your teaching
background as an asset on the academic job market. You are a complex individual balancing multiple personal and academic demands -- and
so are the students you teach and mentor! CTE works with you through professional
development to think about, and engage, your personhood holistically with a view to
understanding faculty and students as whole people. Your unique identity brings necessary value to Duquesne, your discipline, your research,
your teaching, and to your engagement with your peers and students. CTE strives to
make all instructors and teaching assistants feel included on campus as well as provide
you with the means to shape your classrooms and departments into inclusive and equitable
spaces for others. Whether you're a mid-career tenure track faculty or a first year graduate student,
CTE provides you with support and curates resources to help everyone pursue bigger
professional goals. Events
Recipients of the 2023-24 Creative Teaching Awards are:
The Teacher-Scholar Model
Instructional Strategies and Course Design
Holistic Development
Contact us!
Feel free to reach out to us individually through our contact information here or generally via cte@duq.edu.
Steven Hansen, Ph.D.
Erin Rentschler, Ph.D.
Jeff Lambert, Ph.D.
Bethany Kaser
Center for Teaching Excellence Events
Career Readiness in the Classroom: A Faculty Showcase
Spiritan Pedagogy Cocktail Reception
You are invited to join faculty and staff colleagues to celebrate the varied ways that we embrace the Spiritan mission in our teaching and work. Come enjoy a favorite beverage, appetizers, and collegiality.
Preparing for Non-tenure Track Promotion
Facilitated by Erin Rentschler (CTE)
Mid-Day Mentoring Lunch with Grad Students
Celebrate Grad Appreciation Week with CTE by joining us for pizza and enriching conversation with experienced graduate teaching assistants.
Mentors/Panelists will offer strategies for success and provide encouragement on generalized topics while offering an opportunity for grad students to learn from
Data Management Basics
Facilitated by Rob Behary and Madelyn Glymour from Gumberg Library.
Are you preparing to write a data management plan? Have you wanted to start a research project but wanted to know more about how to maintain consistency in the data you collect? Do you want to share your research data but need to fin