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Date: 2024-01-10
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1. New Faculty Orientation

A three-day/two-night orientation for new faculty is held at NTU’s Xitou Experimental Forest in late August every year. The orientation helps new faculty members understand NTU’s administrative affairs and teaching/research resources, assisting them to adapt to the campus, build peer rapport, and strengthen their enthusiasm for teaching.

Department / Division of Faculty Development, Center for Teaching & Learning Development, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 #513
Website / Visit the CTLD “New Faculty Orientation” page for more information.

2. Faculty Development Group

As a continuation of the New Faculty Orientation, the Center for Teaching & Learning Development organizes an additional two-day/one-night training camp for middle-generation and experienced faculty members. By offering themed courses and interactive activities, the Faculty Development Camp effectively facilitates cross-disciplinary peer interactions, boosting the participants’ teaching competencies and career. While providing an opportunity for faculty members to intensively exchange their teaching, learning, and course developing experiences, this camp also helps them reexamine their own teaching/learning ideas and self-value, so as to create an innovative pedagogy and educational environment at NTU.

Department / Division of Faculty Development, Center for Teaching & Learning Development, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 #513

3. Faculty Empowerment Activities

To diversify and enhance our faculty’s teaching competencies, the Center for Teaching & Learning Development offers a series of empowerment activities during the semester that feature six topics: digital capacity, pedagogy, course design, learning evaluation, teacher-student relationship, and self-value. These activities assist instructors to consider and suit students’ learning motives and needs when designing curricula and instructing students. Besides, they also effectively integrate digital teaching and learning resources as well as information equipment for instructors to redefine and reexamine the role and attitude of an educator.

Department / Division of Faculty Development, Center for Teaching & Learning Development, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 #513

4. Teaching Practice Research

To improve the quality of teachers, facilitate students’ learning, and implement NTU’s educational missions, the Center for Teaching and Learning Development has promoted teaching practice research programs that mainly focus on researching teaching practices/teaching settings. The Center has organized relevant orientation meetings, workshops, lectures, and provided teaching research consultation services to help interested teachers join these programs, in order to cooperate with the Teaching Practice Research Program of the Ministry of Education and organize the Teaching Practice Incubation Program at NTU.

Department / Division for Teacher Development of the Center for Teaching and Learning Development, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 Ext no. 518 (MOE Teaching Practice Research Program) Ext no. 515 (Teaching Practice Incubation Program)
Website / https://www.dlc.ntu.edu.tw/sotl-program/

5. Teaching Observations

The Center for Teaching & Learning Development invites outstanding teachers, excellent teachers, instructors adopting innovative teaching methods, and instructors applying new technologies in class, to open their class for peer observation. If needed, discussions will be held after class for observers and observees to exchange their views and experiences.

Department / Division of Faculty Development, Center for Teaching & Learning Development, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 #516
Website / Visit the CTLD website for Faculty Development for more information.

6. Class Observation and Interaction (Teaching Consultation)

Teaching specialists of the NTU Center for Teaching and Learning Development or senior faculty members of NTU enter the classrooms of new instructors, observe their classes while taking notes, and discuss relevant issues with the new instructors after class to help them adjust their teaching patterns and improve their teaching activity designs, in order to increase students’ learning motivation.

Department / Division for Teacher Development of the Center for Teaching and Learning Development, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 #512
Website / https://www.dlc.ntu.edu.tw/observation-and-feedback/

7. Faculty Mentorship

The Faculty Mentorship service provides new teachers the opportunity for in-depth discussions on topics such as teaching and research through one-on-one mentorship and experience exchange, through which new teachers can adapt to the new environment more quickly and learn the resources available at NTU. The Mentorship service also promotes friendship between new teachers through face-to-face interaction.

8. Teacher Growth Communities

With NTU teachers as the main target, thematic communities such as the Teaching Practice Research SoTL Community and various community member gatherings encourage teachers to build horizontal linkages, thus strengthening the peer network. This can help increase the opportunities for teaching and research exchanges and for cross-field cooperation, thus establishing a positive and supportive teaching and research environment.

Department / Division for Teacher Development of the Center for Teaching and Learning Development, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 #516
Website / Teacher Growth Communities,  Teaching Practice Research SoTL Community

9. Teaching Portfolio (tPo)

Teaching portfolio (tPo) serves as a platform for instructors to document and reflect on their teaching careers. tPo automatically imports an instructor’s basic information, teaching courses, and student evaluations. In addition, instructors can use tPo to post writings on their teaching philosophies, teaching plans, and reflections on teaching. These functions provide a foundation on which instructors can improve their teaching.

Department / Computer Information Management Division, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-2388 #613
Website / Visit the tPo websie for more information.

10. Faculty+: Digital Teaching Instructions

Faculty+ is an online video platform in which the Digital Learning Center offers the university’s faculty and teaching assistants a series of video consultation services to support them in creating digital teaching materials and approaching new teaching models. This online platform is aimed to help our faculty members and teaching assistants get hands-on experience in creating digital teaching materials and utilizing digital media technology in the classroom to enrich and innovate their courses.

Department / Digital Learning Center, Office of Academic Affairs
Contact / (02) 3366-3367 #588
Website / Visit the CTLD website for Learning Technology for more information.

11. Summer College

The Summer College convened by NTU cooperates with its partner universities across Taiwan to integrate their general education courses and specializations, providing students in Taiwan with “a third semester” during summer when inter-collegiate general education courses are on offer by credit transfer. Teachers are free to choose where and when to give the lectures. The college hopes that by offering teachers a platform to give inter-collegiate and interdisciplinary lectures, students will have the opportunity to meet different teachers and experience diverse teaching styles as a way to arouse their passion for exploring related disciplines.

Department /Center for General Education
Contact / (02) 3366-2545 #292, 293, 295
Website /Visit the Summer College website for more information.