All faculty members are welcome to book a one-on-one teaching “office hours” appointment with CTE staff members. Read below to learn about our areas of expertise. You can also learn more about our staff on our CTE Team, Adjunct Faculty Liaison and Faculty Fellows pages.
Yevgeniya Rivers
Interim Director
Center for Teaching Excellence
Areas of expertise:
Formative assessment
Fostering student collaboration
Integrating technology into lessons
Motivating students using principles of mindset
Promoting critical thinking in introductory courses
Simple rubrics
Teaching for equity
Writing in the STEM classroom
Devon Moore
Associate Director
Center for Teaching Excellence
Areas of expertise:
working with language learners/linguistic minority students supporting underachieving students
Designing mid-semester student surveys
Creating/promoting workshops or instructor resources
Grading writing assignments
Structuring an online course
Running effective discussion forums
Engaging students
Document design
Syllabus design
Basic video editing
Slide design (Powerpoint, Google Slides Canva)
Lisa Scranton
Director of Faculty Support Services Center for Teaching Excellence
Areas of expertise:
Faculty Success
Banner Student
Degree Audit
Argos Reports
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Danielle Cooper
Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor • Criminal Justice
Areas of expertise:
Designing Assignments with Students
Supporting Historically Underserved Students
Collaborating with Community Partners
Engaging through Contemplative and Restorative Practices
Learning through Play (Ludology)
Mapping Assessments to Outcomes
Houssein El Turkey
Faculty Fellow Associate Professor • Math
Areas of expertise:
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Active Learning in STEM Classrooms (e.g., in-class worksheets, pre-class readings/tasks)
Curriculum development (e.g., new course/program proposals, Student Learning Outcomes)
Designing tasks to foster creativity in STEM classrooms
Pedagogical actions to foster creativity in STEM classrooms
Designing reflective assignments (developing prompts for reflective assignments and students’ autobiographies)
Designing Mid-semester Student Surveys
Mehdi Mekni
Faculty Fellow Associate Professor • Computer Science
Areas of expertise:
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Active Learning in the STEM classroom
Curriculum development
Designing Tasks to foster creativity in STEM classrooms
Pedagogical Actions to promote creativity in STEM classroom
Martha Dumas
Adjunct Faculty Liaison Practitioner in Residence • English
Areas of expertise:
Using Hypothesis for digital collaborative annotation
Teaching with Wikipedia
Providing effective feedback
Creating low-stakes assignments
Assessing written assignments
Incorporating metacognition and student self-assessment