University of South Florida (Tampa)
ER-14: Incentives for Developing Sustainability Courses

The Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (ATLE) serves full-time faculty, adjunct instructors, and graduate teaching assistants on the USF Tampa campus in a multitude of was including teaching incentives, workshops and a new learning community: Groups of faculty can work on specific topics in pedagogy and course design through Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs). FLCs are cross-disciplinary groups of faculty "who engage in an active, collaborative, yearlong program with a curriculum about enhancing teaching and learning with frequent seminars and activities that provide learning, development, the scholarship of teaching, and community building." Faculty may wish to consult several online resources to situate themselves to teaching at USF: • Instructional Resource Guide • Teaching Essentials: A self-paced online "course" discussing best practices • Information about creating a teaching video for the Undergraduate Teaching Awards at USF. In addition to the services ATLE provides, faculty may be interested in these other opportunities: • Faculty Fellows • Faculty Liaisons • Faculty Book Club • Tech Camp • Summer Institute • Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award

Whether Faculty are interested in altering a small section of your class or the entire curriculum, the Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (ATLE) can help. They are happy to consult with faculty members regarding many topics: • Revising course objectives (and everything else that must change as a result) • Converting the class to be partly online (fully online course conversions should work with Innovative Education) • Adding a new dimension, such as an international or global perspective • Incorporating a service-learning component • Changing assessment methods • Experimenting with alternate modes of content delivery and/or new technologies