Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

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Call for guest blog contributors

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Meet the 2025-2026 Graduate Teaching Fellows

We're excited to introduce our three graduate teaching fellows for the 2025-2026 academic year: Amitesh Singh, Brian Wesley Harrington, and Sarah Ligon.

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What we read this summer

The CETL Team includes avid readers. In this post, we share what we read this summer.

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Recap: Welcome week workshops

Earlier this week, the CETL team offered a variety of workshops to help instructors prepare for the semester ahead. Below, we offer a few key takeaways from these workshops. As always, we invite you to review our schedule of upcoming workshops, peruse our blog for recaps on previous events, and

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Announcing CETL’s Fall 2025 Lineup

Teaching large courses, navigating generative AI, real talk about teaching, and more

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Welcome week preview

As we gear up for the start of the fall 2025 semester, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning team will offer a variety of programs to help instructors start strong in the weeks ahead.

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CETL Honors Graduate Student Teachers

Meet the winners of the 2024-2025 Graduate Excellence in Teaching Awards

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Recap: Understanding and Supporting Executive Function

Executive functioning skills are critical to memory, attention, organizing, and planning—among many other tasks important to learning and teaching. In a recent workshop, CETL explored how instructors

Recap: Infusing Purpose in the Classroom with Transparent Assignment Design

Last month, CETL facilitated a workshop on transparent assignment design, a framework built on research from the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) project. I (Emily) personally believe that one of the lowest-effort, highest-reward changes instructors can make to their pedagogy is to make their teaching choices and course assignments

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Thank an Instructor

We love reading the notes of gratitude students send to their instructors through our Thank an Instructor program. Here are our spring highlights!

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Guest post: Journalism professor reflects on watching former student in the Super Bowl

Summer Hill-Vinson, instructional assistant professor of journalism instruction, shares a reflection on her teaching over the last 17 years--including one notable UM alum.

Dr. Elizabeth Barre visited with the UM community on February 12 to discuss how we can motivate students to embrace the desirable difficulties of reading.

Recap: Page by Page

Motivating students to embrace the desirable difficulties of reading, with Dr. Elizabeth Barre

CETL's mission is to promote exemplary teaching and effective learning at the University of Mississippi.

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