Teaching
Advancement Board (TAB) and the Provost's Initiative on Teaching Advancement (PITA)
Instructional Development assists
the Office of the Provost and the
Teaching Advancement Board with the
Provost's Initiative on Teaching Advancement , a campus-wide
grant program that supports innovation and excellence in teaching.
TAB
The Teaching Advancement Board is comprised of twelve distinguished faculty members. TAB pursues
the following objectives:
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Evaluates and fosters programs to improve the quality of teaching on campus.
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Sponsors forms of recognition for excellence in teaching.
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Provides support for instructional enhancements.
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Promotes developmental activity in support of teaching.
PITA
The PITA Program enhances the educational experiences of students by providing resources
to test and/or implement innovative, instructional programs that are aligned with the
Campus Strategic Plan. Examples of
projects supported by PITA grants include those that accomplish the following:
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Strengthen excellence in instruction through mentoring, assessment, and
peer evaluation. Of particular interest are projects that involve one or more of the
college-level Teaching Academies.
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Promote the enhancement, redesign and modification of existing courses.
Examples of course enhancements include the incorporation of an innovative educational
technology or the development of a community engagement component.
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Develop new courses and pilot classes intended to become part of the core
curriculum of a department or program.
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Advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), a scholarly inquiry
into the relationship of teaching and learning. Research topics include those that examine the
effectiveness of specific instructional practices or that develop methods to measure instructional
effectiveness.
View Abstracts from the Final Reports of PITA Projects
AY2007-2008
AY2006-2007
AY2005-2006
Teaching Academies
The PITA Program is instrumental in providing resources to initiate and to develop college-level
teaching academies to promote teaching excellence at UIUC.
College of Agricultural,
Consumer and Environmental Sciences:
Academy of Teaching
Excellence
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/Faculty
Contact: Associate Dean Laurie Kramer
College of Applied Health Sciences
Contact:
Associate Professor
Kim Graber
College of Business
Contact:
Professor
Joseph Mahoney
and
Associate Professor Nick Petruzzi
College of Education
Contact: Associate
Dean Lizanne DeStefano and
Associate Dean James Leach
College of Engineering:
The Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (AE3)
http://ae3.cen.uiuc.edu/
Contact: Assistant
Dean Bruce Litchfield
or
Leslie Crowley Srajek (Assistant Director, AE3)
College of Fine and Applied Arts:
The Fine Art of Teaching
Contact: Associate Dean
Michael Andrejasich or
Associate Professor James Zager
College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences Teaching Academy
http://lasta.las.uiuc.edu
Contact: Professor Paul
Diehl (Director, LAS Teaching Academy) or
Marie Ciavarella (Associate Director, LAS Teaching Academy)
College of Veterinary Medicine
Contact:
Professor Matthew Wallig or
Professor Jonathan Foreman
Graduate School of Library and Information Science with the University Library:
The Teaching Alliance
Contact:
Associate
Dean Linda Smith or
Associate Professor Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
Institute of Aviation
Contact:
Associate Director for Academic Affairs Tom Emanuel
School of Social Work
Contact: Clinical Assistant Professor
Tonya Manselle
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