Claudia Cornejo Happel, Ph.D.
Director
Mrs. Cynethia Goodwyn
Program Manager
Teha Cooks, Ph.D.
Associate Director
College of Arts and Sciences
Tracy Mendolia, Ph.D.
Associate Director
College of Engineering
Chad Rohrbacher, Ed.D., MFA
Senior Associate Director
College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Mentoring
Ibrahim Yeter, Ph.D.
Associate Director
College of Engineering
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) at Daytona Beach campus invests in faculty through a variety of grants, services and programs. Through our experience, research and faculty guidance, our center has developed signature programs in support of teaching excellence and student success.
Short Courses
Our popular short course program brings together faculty from across campus to discuss teaching and learning topics that are likely to improve student learning. Short courses typically span four weeks during the semester and combine workshop sessions, classroom application and activity assessment. Typically, participants take advantage of our competitive grant programs to deepen their knowledge of the short course topics or extend the impact of their intervention. We have included Short Course topics on Self-Regulated Learning, Growth Mindset, Formative Student Assessment, Blended Learning, Dynamic Lecturing and Critical Thinking.
Teaching Partners
While student evaluations provide a snapshot of feedback for faculty, we believe that successful teachers regularly seek feedback from other sources, including their peers. Our Teaching Partners program, in its fifth year, asks teachers to collaborate to observe and reflect on one another's teaching. Applicants collaborate with a faculty partner and a CTLE associate director in small review groups. Groups will record the class meetings of each member, review the recording digitally using Canvas Studio technology and provide feedback to one another through an online commenting system. A structured debrief follows for both teaching partners.
The Task Force on Innovation (TFI) is a campus-wide initiative to seek out, pilot and implement innovative ideas for the improvement of teaching and learning on Daytona Beach campus.
Sponsored Innovations
Student Innovation Awards
The Student Innovation Awards recognize individuals and/or teams who propose the best ideas to enhance the campus, student life or academic life. The Student Innovation Awards highlight not only the creative, innovative, problem-solving skills of Daytona Beach students but also their digital communications skills.
Learn more about the Student Innovation Awards.
Digital Studio
The Digital Studio offers a tutoring space that addresses the digital literacy development of Daytona Beach campus students. This space offers digital creation work areas, technology and trained tutors to support both students and faculty working on digital projects for their classes or research.
Hybrid Course Development Program
This program began as a TFI Initiative in 2009. Faculty initially received training from Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) staff on best practices for delivering hybrid courses. Feedback from students in hybrid courses has been largely positive. CTLE continues to offer online training for faculty wishing to teach hybrid courses, with plans to provide updated training to those faculty who completed earlier versions of the program.
Gamification
Gamification is the use of game elements or theory in non-gaming contexts to influence behavior. Some benefits of gamification in the classroom include increased motivation, more student-directed learning and possibilities for differentiated instruction. Our Gamification program is a new form of faculty development program — one that encourages exploration by faculty at a pace that they choose and achieve awards for their own learning, like grants or SWAG. This signature program was developed from work done on the TFI. Learn more about the elements of Gamified Faculty Development, Implementation and Assessment of GFD, and Implementations of GFD.
Task Force for Innovations Membership
Task Force Co-Chairs
Dr. Lori Mumpower
Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Dr. James J. Pembridge
Associate Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
Membership
Ahmed Abdelghany
Associate Dean for Research & Professor of Operations Management, O’Maley College of Business
Donna Barbie
Associate Dean & Professor of Humanities & Communication, College of Arts and Sciences
Mike Berta
Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Keisha Brown
Director of IT Services, Daytona Beach Campus
Anne Marie Casey
Director, Hunt Library
Kim Chambers
Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Aaron Clevenger
Assistant Provost & Dean of International Programs
Claudia Cornejo Happel
Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Terry Dallas
Executive Director of IT Services
Jayendra S. Gokhale
Associate Professor of Economics, O’Maley College of Business
Samantha R. Harrison
Assistant Professor of Aeronautical Science
Lisa Kollar
Assistant Provost and Dean of Students
Ashley Lear
Professor of Humanities and Composition, College of Arts and Sciences
Tasos Lyrintzis
Chair of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Chad Rohrbacher
Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Suzanne Sprague
Associate Director for Electronic and Technical Services
Becky Vasquez
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Mike Wiggins
Chair of Aeronautical Science, College of Aviation
Mike Williams
Dean of O’Maley College of Business
Jennifer Wojton
Associate Professor of Humanities and Composition
Dr. Shirley Waterhouse, executive director emerita of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, began the Task Force on Innovation (TFI) in 2009 as a way to pilot and implement innovative ideas for the improvement of teaching and learning on the Daytona Beach campus. Significant campus projects that began as TFI initiatives include the Student Innovation Awards, the Digital Studio, the Hybrid Course Development Program and, most recently, Gamification.
Teaching Partners is a peer observation program that partners two faculty members and a Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) Associate Director to create a formative classroom observation experience. It provides faculty space to share good teaching practices and helps them improve their own classrooms by encouraging self-reflection.
Peer observation is nothing new. It is typically a summative process for departments to review teaching effectiveness or a formative process where faculty sit in on each other’s courses and offer feedback. Sometimes, it is a process that includes a faculty developer outside the department who observes teaching and shares feedback. Rarely do we see a true hybrid process like Teaching Partners.
Teaching Partners combines the formative review of faculty peers observing one another with a faculty developer to help facilitate the process and provide suggestions:
- Faculty partners set goals with the developer and then have their class recorded.
- This classroom recording is prepared by the developer and shared with the faculty partners so they can provide time-stamped feedback to each other.
- The developer then watches both courses and shares their thoughts on the videos.
- All three meet for a debrief to discuss the feedback and make concrete plans to integrate at least one new practice in their classroom.
- The program wraps up with the faculty reflecting on their overall experience.
Since its inception, participation in Teaching Partners has grown 200%, with over 95 faculty taking part.
For Further Reading
- Gosling, D. (2002). Models of peer observation of teaching. Generic Centre: Learning and Teaching Support Network. Retrieved, 8(10), 08.
- Gosling, D. (2013). Collaborative Peer-Supported Review of Teaching, in Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives, J. Sachs & M. Parsell, Dordrecht, Springer, p. 13-31
- Rohrbacher, C. & McKee, J. (2019). “Asynchronous Electronic Feedback for Faculty Peer Review: Formative Feedback That Makes a Difference”. Handbook of Research on Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning, Elçi, A., Beith, L., Elçi, A. (Eds.). IGI Global.
- Pembridge, J. & Rohrbacher, C. (forthcoming, Spring 2022). “Faculty Peer Review of Teaching for the 21st Century”. Handbook of STEM Faculty Development, Linder, S., Lee, C, High, K., and Stefl, L. Information Age Publishing.
