The Center for Teaching, Learning, & Assessment
Please click here for information on our "Teaching 21st Century Students" Conference.
We're located in Tide Hall, Bldg 23. TLA shares the east side of the building with Academic Personnel.
The purpose of the TLA is to provide faculty with support for exploring and implementing teaching, learning and assessment practices that enhance student learning. In consultation with its advisory committee and with input from faculty, staff, students and administrators across campus, the TLA addresses it goals of:
- helping promote excellence in teaching, effective assessment of learning, and faculty professional development at CSUMB.
- promoting teaching and professional development across the teaching and learning continuum, addressing the interests and needs of faculty in differing types of positions and faculty at different career stages.
- encouraging faculty contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning, and to the emerging scholarship of assessment.
- helping promote the visibility of CSUMB’s accomplishments in teaching, learning, and assessment.
Please get in touch with us to share your suggestions for faculty development programs and activities the TLA might sponsor in the coming year.
Wine And Cheese and Scholarship ~ Our newest TLA tradition!
Beginning fall 2011, we are holding three gatherings each semester for faculty to come together to hear from and discuss with colleagues their scholarship in the areas of Teaching and Learning, Discovery, Creation, and Integration, and Profession Application.
Below is our schedule for spring 2012, including the offerings we already know about and showing spaces for those of you who are interested in proposing a presentation.
We've set the dates for the Spring Semester gatherings. They will all take place from 5-7pm.
- Monday, February 20 - Alumni & Visitors Center
Presentation 1: The Inverted Classroom - Rachel Esselstein, Mathematics & Statistics
Inspired by the Kahn Academy and the teaching style of R.L. Moore, Professor Esselstein has been experimenting with a new pedagogy known as the Inverted Classroom. The philosophy is to use the “passive” activities such as watching a lecture for homework and the “active” activities such as problem solving or reading for class time. In this presentation, she will discuss the method, the resources she found necessary and what she observed from the students.
Presentation 2: Fort Ord and CSUMB: Shared location - Shared pedagogy
Steven Levinson, Teledramatic Arts & Technology
A discussion of how Fort Ord, while a military base, was also an important educational institution. Through Basic and Advanced training Fort Ord used very similar pedagogies and tactics to CSUMB in the training of people, and the development of appropriate attitudes.
- Wednesday, March 28 - Alumni & Visitors Center
Presentations OPEN
- Thursday, April 26 - University Center
Presentation 1: OPEN
Presentation 2: Design for Learning in Virtual Worlds - Ben Erlandson, Information Technology and Communications Design
Have you ever thought of using a virtual world for helping your students learn content or processes relevant to your subject area? Based on his forthcoming book of the same title, Professor Erlandson will discuss essential concepts to consider when designing or choosing a virtual world for teaching and learning in a variety of contexts.
TLA Mission Statement
The Center for Teaching, Learning and Assessment supports faculty and students by guiding the development of the pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment necessary to promote the University Learning Requirements (ULRs) and the Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs) of CSUMB.
Faculty members commit themselves to responsive teaching and learning in pursuit of excellence through integration of technology, service and reflection, discipline-specific components, and professional preparation. The TLA Center provides resources, workshops, individual and program consultations, and facilitates the development of pedagogical approaches and supportive contexts for teaching and learning.
100 Campus Center
