Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence

CRTLE's Mission

Enhancing Engagement in Online Courses

Inclusive Teaching Strategies

Student Learning Outcomes Initiative

Universal Design for Learning

Services Provided by CRTLE

In addition to our faculty development programs, we offer following additional services to support the needs of our faculty and graduate students.

Faculty Lounge

The CRTLE Faculty Lounge features interactive conversations and exchange of teaching strategies to best engage students in learning and promote successful achievement in all teaching modalities. The CRTLE Faculty Lounge sessions are led by our CRTLE Faculty Facilitators.

Faculty Lounge Sessions

Informal Peer Consultation

Informal Peer Consultations are teaching observations to support faculty development in effective teaching practices through supportive feedback from teaching observations and mentorship from experienced and successful teaching faculty members.

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Upcoming Events

5/5 12:00-1:00 pm Activating Empathy, Global Awareness, and Social Responsibility through Gamification

Join us for UT System Faculty Developers Lunch and Learn Series - Spring 2022: Reclaiming Joy in Teaching. The sixth session will be presented by the Center for Faculty Leadership and Development from UT El Paso on the topic: Activating Empathy, Global Awareness, and Social Responsibility through Gamification.

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CRTLE’s Annual Showcase of Teaching Excellence

CRTLE’s Annual Showcase of Teaching Excellence is an event where faculty share unique and innovative teaching practices. Our Maverick Advantage Faculty Engagement (MAFE), Center for Service Learning (CSL), Professional Learning Community (PLC), and CRTLE Faculty Facilitators present their inspiring projects and engage all in interactive discussions on teaching. This event is to celebrate you – our faculty – for your amazing work in teaching.

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Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Turbulent Times

In collaboration with the School of Social Work, CRTLE hosted this teaching seminar on how traumatic stress impacts student learning and how best we can mitigate it.

College Teaching Training Certificate (CTTC)

To provide UTA graduate students the opportunities to enhance their teaching performance while at UTA, College Teaching Training Certificate (CTTC) program offers monthly workshops focused on research-based pedagogy and best teaching practices.

COVID-19 Remote Teaching Resources

In January 2022, CRTLE, co-sponsored with OIT and CDE, hosted two workshops on Teams for Teaching on Canvas, which has been added to the list of remote teaching resources.