Rice Center for Teaching Excellence

Please consider supporting the CTE during the 24-Hour Challenge!

Center for Teaching Excellence - Rice University 24-Hour Challenge In the spirit of Be Bold — the new campaign for Rice University — Chuck Whitten ’99 and Lori Rudge Whitten ’98 have issued the largest single challenge to Rice alumni and students. When 4,700 Owls make a gift of any size to Rice on April 7, 2022, the Whitten family will donate $250,000 to Th...

Join us for our spring reading group! Register by January 24th to receive a physical copy of the book.

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Join us at our next What’s New in Teaching and Learning Research!

What’s New: Designing and Publishing SoTL Research in Rice Classrooms — Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence What’s New in Teaching and Learning Research: Designing and Publishing SoTL Research in Rice Classrooms

If you haven't already, register for this fall's reading group.

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Each year, near the end of the spring semester, is an opportunity for the Rice community to celebrate the many accomplishments of our faculty, graduate student instructors and TAs, and undergraduates who teach student-taught courses. Please join us in congratulating this year's award winners!

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Congratulations to Jimmy DeNicco for winning the George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching!

Economics lecturer James DeNicco wins George R. Brown Prize for Excellence in Teaching If you ask James

Congratulations to the 2021 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching winners!

9 recognized with award for superior teaching Nine faculty received the 2021 George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching, which honors top Rice instructors as determined by the votes of alumni who […]

Join us for this spring's second What's New in Research on Teaching and Learning!

What’s New in Teaching and Learning Research: Distraction: Attention, Concentration, and Maximizing Learning — Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence Amanda Jungels,  Associate Director, Center for Teaching Excellence Distractions abound in the modern classroom, and faculty have long struggled with how to minimize student distraction and maximize concentration, learning, and engagement in the classroom. In this talk, CTE Associate Dire

First Time Publishing Pedagogical Research — Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence The CTE Umbrella IRB for Teaching-Related Research streamlines the process for faculty wishing to conduct pedagogical research projects in Rice University classrooms. In this guest Rodrigo Ferreira, Rice Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, reflects on his experience conducting and publishing pedagogical

Join us for this spring's first What's New in Research on Teaching and Learning!

What's New in Research: Quiet Students in the Classroom: Rethinking Participation — Rice University Center for Teaching Excellence What's New in Research on Teaching and Learning: Quiet Students in the Classroom: Rethinking Participation, Engagement, and Silence for Learning