UB’s Graduate School of Education has partnered with GiGi’s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center of Buffalo to provide UB students with in-classroom experience teaching students with disabilities. UB students were photographed at the center working with clients in July 2021. GSE professor Claire Cameron is working with the program.

CATT News & Updates

Featuring teaching tips and stories highlighting teaching and assessment innovations happening around UB.

Latest News & Updates

Latest Podcast Episode

  • Empowering Change Through Inclusive Education | Ep. 7
    10/30/24
    Dr. Seval Yildirim, UB's Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence, joins us on the Teaching Table podcast to tackle a pressing question: How can we foster an inclusive environment that excites and engages everyone on campus? Discover her strategies for managing change and progress in equity, diversity, justice, and inclusion as she shares her personal journey and the importance of understanding a campus's unique culture.

Past Updates

  • Inter-Classroom Assessment?
    10/6/21
    A perennial problem that we, in the assessment world, grapple with involves understanding the full impact of the physical space on learners and instructors.
  • The Teamwork Behind CATT’s Assessment and Instructional Support Efforts
    9/22/21
    In our Director’s previous blog post, Carol Van Zile-Tamsen introduced our friends and partners to the enhanced structure of the Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation. Through the merger of CEI and OEE Carol explained what—in its broadest sense—it is that we are trying to achieve in relation to supporting the University’s needs.
  • Bridging Assessment and Instruction
    9/8/21
    In these past few weeks following our recent merger between the Office of Educational Effectiveness and the Center for Educational Innovation, I have been thinking hard about how to most effectively communicate what it is about our new office that will allow us to better serve the university.
  • Connecting with Students Through Story
    2/3/21
    Story is one of those elements encountered around every corner, embedded into our lives so deeply that we may not always notice it. It powers every successful advertising campaign and drives our purchasing habits, inspires dinner table conversation as well as the subsequent family arguments, and designs the visuals that flood our sub-conscience as we close our eyes each night.
  • Design with Accessibility in Mind
    1/21/21
    If 2020 has taught us anything, we’ve learned to be flexible, to roll with the punches and to realize that at any point in time, our lives can be upended. As teachers, we have found the move to teaching online has brought along with it many conundrums, from the more obvious concerns about having the right technology, stable internet connectivity, and scheduling to a range of issues that stem from simply not being together in the classroom.
  • The Ever Dreaded Discussion Board – Out of the Box Activities and How to Handle the Workload
    12/17/20
    A great conversation on the use (or overuse) of Discussion Boards emerged from CATT’s Design and Build Academy. The questions and concerns raised in class by the faculty ranged from how to effectively use Discussion Boards and over usage of Discussion Boards in online learning, to how to effectively manage Discussion Boards when they become overwhelming and do Discussion Boards really engage students. Below are some resources, tips and tricks to master the online staple, Discussion Boards.