| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 75.37 |
| Liaison | Suchi Daniels |
| Submission Date | Jan. 14, 2014 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of South Florida (Tampa)
PAE-15: Employee Sustainability Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
5.00 / 5.00 |
Kebreab
Ghebremichael Director of Water Sustainability Concentration Patel College of Global Sustainability |
Total number of people employed by the institution:
Program name (1st program) :
Number of employees served by the program (1st program):
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (1st program):
Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence (ATLE) offers a variety of resources that support instructional personnel on the USF Tampa campus. For ideas on how to adjust, innovate, and expand your teaching horizons, visit the links to the left, which include:
• Assessment: ideas for optimizing your assessment strategies including, test construction and grading methods
• Classroom Management: strategies and policies to help you cultivate and maintain productive classroom environments
• Course Design: ideas for jump-starting a course redesign that matches your skills and comfort level
• Resource Library: readings available for check-out in the ATLE library that can help you improve your teaching
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): resources to help you design and interpret SoTL research and find journals for publishing
• Syllabus: information to help you build or refine your course syllabi, including a USF-specific template
• Teaching Methods: collection of special pedagogies you may wish to consider including interactive techniques, experiential/service-learning, team-based learning, and inquiry learning
• Teaching Topics: variety of issues related to teaching including diversity, sustainability, and globalization in curriculum
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (1st program):
Teaching Methods including a great variety of techniques:
Experiential/Service-Learning
Inquiry-Based Learning
Interactive Techniques
Problem-Based Learning
Teaching Online
Team-Based Learning
Visual Thinking Strategies
Active Learning, for example:
The umbrella term active learning encompasses many different types of classroom activity, including problem-based learning, project-based learning, team-based learning, and inquiry methods of instruction. Often these can be thought of as mirror images of traditional instruction. Where lecture provides an argument laid out using deductive reasoning, active learning methods frequently rely on inductive reasoning — students are provided with an initial problem, for instance, and they work backwards through the problem to discover first principles.
A brief description of the staff and/or other financial support the institution provides to the program (1st program):
These are freely available to all USF staff and faculty
The website URL where information about the program is available (1st program):
Program name (2nd program):
Number of employees served by the program (2nd program):
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (2nd program):
The Diversity and Equal Opportunity Office (DEO) provides effective leadership to ensure that diversity and equal opportunity are a thriving part of the fabric of the University of South Florida. All members of the USF campus are invited to attend awareness and training programs as well as numerous events throughout the year hosted by the office.
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (2nd program):
The DEO office is supported by 9 full-time, qualified staff members trained by the university.
A brief description of the financial or other support the institution provides to the program (2nd program):
USF provides a salary to DEO office staff members, training, and a budget that allows the office to host the awareness and training program along with other events on campus open to all faculty, staff, and students.
The website URL where information about the program is available (2nd program):
Program name(s) (all other programs):
Number of employees served by the program(s) (all other programs):
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (all other programs):
"ATLE is one of the central support units on campus and maintains strategic partnerships with several other critical university offices including:
eTG
Faculty Senate
Information Technology
Community Engagement
Undergraduate Research
Innovative Education
USF Library
USF World
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (all other programs):
All staff are hired and trained through the normal USF procedures.
A brief description of the staff and/or other financial support the institution provides to the program(s) (all other programs):
all these programs are free to faculty and staff
The website URL where information about the program(s) is available (all other programs):
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