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Meet the CTTL’s Newest Staff Member
Katie Beres In June, the CTTL welcomed its newest staff member, Katie Beres, who serves as Instructional Liaison for Faculty and Graduate Student Development. Under the direction of Dr. Gina Merys,...
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What’s in a Name? by Dr. Debra Rudder Lohe, Director
Paul C. Reinert, S.J. Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning Welcome to the Center’s new website – and our new blog-format version of The Notebook (formerly, our quarterly newsletter)! As you...
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Transforming Teaching and Learning at SLU for 15 years: Or is it 20?
by Debra Rudder Lohe, Director Greetings from the newly-christened Paul C. Reinert, S.J. Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning. Officially, this year marks the 15th anniversary for the...
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Teaching at a Jesuit University: A Brief Introduction
by Debra Rudder Lohe, Director, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning If you’re new to the context of a Jesuit institution, you are probably wondering, What’s a Jesuit? And how does...
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Celebrations, Reflections, and Warm Wishes from the CTTL
by Debie Lohe, Director for the Reinert CTTL As the fall semester winds down, I want to take a moment to reflect on the semester we’ve had and to wish everyone speedy grading, safe travels, and...
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by Debie Lohe, Director for the Reinert CTTL As we head into a new year (and a new semester), I have been contemplating resolutions, like many of you. Most years, I enter the early days of January...
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Remembering Dr. Cheryl Cavallo
by Debra Rudder Lohe, PhD, CTTL Director On Sunday, I received the news that Dr. Cheryl Cavallo – faculty emerita in the Program for Physical Therapy here at SLU – had lost her long, difficult battle...
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Mid-Semester Reflection
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert CTTL Mid-semester is a good time to take to take a few quiet moments to reflect on how your courses are going and to set some intentions for the second half of the...
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In Search of Renewal
by Debra Rudder Lohe For the last several weeks, I’ve felt – and many SLU faculty have affirmed this sense – that the end of the semester was both speeding at me like a locomotive and slowing like an...
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What is Transformational Teaching, and How Do I Do It?
by Debie Lohe, Director, CTTL Here in the Reinert Center, we talk a lot about teaching that transforms – that is, teaching that changes people, altering fundamentally the way learners understand...
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From Intuition to Intention
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center This week, with move-in underway, most of the campus is focused on the arrival of new undergraduates. It’s easy to do that: they’re fresh and new and starting a...
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Teaching at a Jesuit Institution: Thoughts for Those New to SLU
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center Four years ago this week, I came to SLU from what some might call a highly secular institution. At that time, I had no personal experience with Jesuit...
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Beyond the Semester’s End
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center Another semester is coming to a close. You have stacks of exams and papers to grade, final grades to calculate. You have holiday shopping to finish, pending...
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End with the Beginning in Mind
by Debra Lohe, Director, Reinert Center It’s time. You’re wrapping up another academic year. Saying goodbye to graduating students. Feeling relieved that the day-to-day demands of the spring term...
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Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Moving from Reaction to Response
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center Even before the events of last week landed Ferguson (and, by extension, St. Louis), Missouri, on the national stage, I had been thinking about the distinction...
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Empowering Students to Use Sources Responsibly: One Small, Powerful Book for...
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center Let me begin with a confessional tale: When I was first assigned Gordon Harvey’s Writing with Sources, I was a young graduate student, preparing to teach an...
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Seeking “the Gray”: Further Thoughts on Teaching in a Time of Crisis
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center In a blog post earlier this semester, I offered some thoughts on the important distinction between reaction and response when teaching in times of crisis. Since...
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Looking Back: Reaction or Response?
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center At the beginning of this academic year, I wrote about the importance of moving from reaction to response when teaching in a time of crisis. That blog post,...
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Thinking Critically, Thinking Creatively: Considerations of a Theme
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center As we welcome new faculty and students to campus, the Reinert Center is gearing up for its focus this year on Thinking Critically, Thinking Creatively. This...
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What Will You Leave Behind?
Dr. Tom Landy speaks to SLU faculty, staff, and grad students by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center Last week, at our annual May event, Dr. Thomas Landy (Director, Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J....
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