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CETL Honors Graduate Student Teachers

Meet the winners of the 2024-2025 Graduate Excellence in Teaching Awards

Apr 17 •

Emily Pitts Donahoe

Recap: Understanding and Supporting Executive Function

Executive functioning skills are critical to memory, attention, organizing, and planning—among many other tasks important to learning and teaching. In a…

Apr 10 •

March 2025

Recap: Infusing Purpose in the Classroom with Transparent Assignment Design

Last month, CETL facilitated a workshop on transparent assignment design, a framework built on research from the Transparency in Learning and Teaching…

Mar 27 •

Emily Pitts Donahoe

February 2025

Thank an Instructor

We love reading the notes of gratitude students send to their instructors through our Thank an Instructor program. Here are our spring highlights!

Feb 27 •

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Guest post: Journalism professor reflects on watching former student in the Super Bowl

Summer Hill-Vinson, instructional assistant professor of journalism instruction, shares a reflection on her teaching over the last 17 years--including…

Feb 25

Recap: Page by Page

Motivating students to embrace the desirable difficulties of reading, with Dr. Elizabeth Barre

Feb 20 •

Recap: Reforming Grading at the University of Mississippi

Last week, we kicked off our spring semester workshops with a presentation from CETL director Josh Eyler on the topic of “Reforming Grading at the…

Feb 13 •

Emily Pitts Donahoe

Roundup: CETL in the News

Members of the CETL team have been very active in the last six months. Below, we share links to the podcasts, news stories, and other resources you can…

Feb 6 •

January 2025

Recap: January Course Design Workshops

Plus upcoming events for spring 2025

Jan 30 •

Emily Pitts Donahoe

December 2024

Recap: Developing a Trauma-Aware Pedagogy

The week before the break, CETL hosted our final workshop of the semester, “Developing a Trauma-Aware Pedagogy.” Unfortunately, the topic is more…

Dec 5, 2024 •

Emily Pitts Donahoe

November 2024

CETL goes to POD 2024

Reports from the 49th annual POD Network conference in Chicago

Nov 21, 2024

Year in Review: CETL’s Annual Report, 2023-2024

We invite our community to review the milestones of our 2023-2024 academic year work.

Nov 7, 2024 •

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