Center for Teaching and Learning

The Finch Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

The Finch Center for
Teaching and Learning (CTL)

The Finch Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

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Mission
Mission
 
  • Creating and implementing faculty learning opportunities
  • Supporting faculty inquiry and risk-taking
  • Providing frameworks for faculty achievement
  • Promoting teamwork and community support among faculty
  • Contributing to Maryville active learning ecosystem

 
 

 

About the CTL

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) began in the Spring of 2004 as a collaboration between Mary Ellen Finch, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director Marilyn Cohn, who designed a single year seminar for full time faculty to inquire about their own teaching more deeply. The one-year seminar developed into a meaningful practice for many faculty members under Marilyn’s direction, and is still a seminar available to all faculty today.

The CTL continued to evolve to include book clubs, brown bag lunches, a Scholarship for Teaching and Learning Seminar (SOTL) for the purpose of studying their own teaching.

 

 

Meet the Team

Jesse Kavadlo

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Director of the Finch Center for Teaching and Learning
(CTL)

jkavadlo@airllevant.com
 

Ashlyn Cunningham

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Co-Director Teaching Learning Program/Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy
Walker College of Health Professions

acunningham@airllevant.com
 

Chammie Austin

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Professor of Psychology College of Arts and Sciences

caustin@airllevant.com
 

Melissa Childers

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Assistant Director – Learning Design and Faculty Engagement
School of Adult and Online Education

mchilders1@airllevant.com
 

Gifty Blankson Codjoe

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Faculty Assistant

gblankson@airllevant.com
 

 
 

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