UC Santa Barbara is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). We are privileged to work with students and faculty members who bring diverse cultures, identities, and experiences to their learning experiences. CITRAL helps disseminate evidence-based practices to improve teaching and learning, provides workshops and opportunities to develop inclusive teaching practices, and provides support and leadership programs for underrepresented faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. CITRAL workshops invite participants to think about the roles that they play as facilitators of student learning in individual courses. They’ll also engage us to think beyond those courses and consider larger issues of systems and structures, policies, and practices across the institution.

 

Teaching and learning in large courses

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CITRAL facilitates and supports pedagogical innovations, often incorporating innovative technologies, to create personalized and inclusive learning in large courses. CITRAL can help faculty and TAs with strategies to make large courses personalized and inclusive. We provide technologies, workshops, and pedagogical support to foster inclusive teaching and learning that can provide "small course" experiences for students, even in courses that enroll hundreds.

 

 

 

Effective communication

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CITRAL provides workshops for faculty and TAs and special courses to support this development. CITRAL workshops teach critical writing, reading, and speaking. CITRAL also facilitates seminars, where students study expectations for communication and learning across disciplines. Learn more about  Promoting Postdoc Progress (P3) and DEI Reading Group. 

 

 

 

 

Engaged assessment

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CITRAL helps faculty and departments to create assessments to improve teaching and learning, and to interpret data that can contribute to assessment and improvement. CITRAL helps coordinate institutional accreditation and provides support for faculty to design innovative assessments to inform teaching and learning. 

 

 

Information and data literacy

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Collaborating with UCSB librarians, Institutional Research, and other partners, CITRAL helps faculty use data to improve teaching and incorporate data and information literacy in courses. Collaboration among faculty, librarians, and graduate and undergraduate students leads to cutting-edge approaches to assessing and understanding information in the age of fast data.

 

 

 

Arnhold Innovative Teaching and Learning Initiative and Fellowship

Call for Seminar Participants and Course Proposals                             

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Arnhold Innovative Teaching and Learning Initiative and Fellowship

Deadline: Monday, December 18


Division of Humanities and Fine Arts & Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL)

Thanks to a generous gift from John and Jody Arnhold, the Arnhold Innovative Teaching and Learning Initiative(AITLI) provides support for instructors to develop innovative, team-taught, interdisciplinary courses.

The Initiative invites applications for two tracks:

  1. Participation in the Arnhold Arts and Humanities Across the Curriculum (AHAC) Seminar (Spring 2024)

  2. Development of a new Arnhold course and participation in the AHAC Seminar (Spring 2024 onward)

Call for Course Proposals and FAQ
   
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Learn more about faculty development programming with the Office of Teaching and Learning.  The Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) collaborates to enable and promote research-based, equitable teaching and learning across UC Santa Barbara. This year, OTL Units are offering workshops and funding opportunities for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students.   
   

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