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Celebrating Berkeley's Brightest Stars- April 22

The campus community is invited to attend the Distinguished Teaching Award ceremony on April 22, 5pm, Eugene Jarvis Auditorium, Grimes Engineering Center

The Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) recognizes individual faculty for sustained excellence in teaching. Beyond an individual exemplary class...

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Ending the Semester with Intention

Here we are, another semester comes to an end! Whatever this term looked like for you, however it unfolded in ways that you planned for and ways you didn't, you showed up for it. And finishing the semester is itself an accomplishment. We mean that!

The end of a semester has a way of collapsing into...

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Exams that Reflect Learning

We are thinking ahead to exam season here, and we know that one of the hardest things to do in a course is to create an assessment, like an exam or a project, that truly demonstrates how much students have learned in a course. In this newsletter, we offer a few options for thinking through how you...

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Teaching Newsletter: Aligning Your Syllabus with Instruction

In the latest issue of the teaching newsletter, we explore strategies on aligning your syllabus with instruction that will last throughout the semester..

Teaching Newsletter: Grading for Growth

In the latest issue of the teaching newsletter, we explore strategies on how and what we are grading as we near the end of the semester.

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