Faculty Handbook
The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) keeps faculty, staff, and teaching assistants connected and informed.
The CTE Resource Library is a comprehensive resource developed to support your teaching and optimize student learning. You can find an overview, tips, strategies, resources, and research on the following topics:
Schedules and details about UF workshops and events can be found through:
Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) are peer-led groups of faculty, staff, and graduate students who engage in an active, collaborative, year–long program structured to provide encouragement, support, and reflection.
The Teaching Excellence Academy (TEA) invites instructors and faculty at all stages of their careers are invited to continually build their teaching and learning practice and create great learning experiences for their students. To help faculty accomplish these goals, the Center for Teaching Excellence offers the TEA both in-person and online in the fall, spring, and summer semesters. This series is designed to help faculty adapt and use time-saving teaching strategies to help focus and invigorate their teaching practice.
The Teaching Beyond the Podium Podcast Series features the teaching and learning experience of UF faculty, staff, and students. Guests share their very best tips, strategies, innovations, and stories about teaching with a little bit of humor. Subscribe through iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud.
Continue to grow your skills and expertise through UF workshops and programs. Certificates and badges are available through various campus units.
UFIT offers a variety of technology training in different formats, including classroom, web and self-paced. Topics include:
The Society of Teaching Scholars sponsors workshops and activities in support of students, residents and faculty of UF’s College of Medicine.
UF’s Human Resources unit provides compliance training as well as training programs focused on the following skills:
Mentorship is important to being successful as a faculty member in higher education. Having a good mentor can help you make valuable contacts, identify potential collaborators, and discover your place in the culture of the University of Florida. The following articles offer useful tips on finding the right mentor for you.
Online and face-to-face workshops are available to help you get started:
Center for Teaching Excellence’s(CTE) “Passport to Great Teaching” Certificate series allows faculty to earn a badge and points towards a “Great Teaching” certificate.
Center for Instructional Technology and Training (CITT) provides training and instructional design assistance. Certificate training programs include:
Instructional designers can help design courses and assessments to provide efficient and timely feedback to students, increase student engagement through instructor presence, and develop opportunities for metacognition based on the needs of your program. Request instructional design help by filling out the “Request Assistance” form.