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

Introducing the Lumen Circles Fellowships on AI and Prompt Development
11/19/24
Are you looking to learn more about AI and how to incorporate it into your teaching? SUNY is partnering with Lumen to provide free access to the Lumen Circle Fellowship Program.
Our Office is Moving: What You Need to Know
9/30/24
We are excited to announce that CATT will be relocating from Norton Hall on North Campus to the UB Gateway Building, located at 77 Goodell Street in downtown Buffalo. This move will take place in four phases, and while our physical location is changing, our commitment to supporting instructors remains stronger than ever.

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

Empowering Educators: A Guide to Integrating AI in the Classroom
2/7/24
The Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation has launched a new series of workshops for the Spring 2024 semester, designed to enhance your teaching strategies. The first in the series continued our efforts to inform our instructors on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom.
Perspectives on AI in Higher Education: An Overview
1/24/24
On January 22, 2024, the Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation held its Annual Conference. This year’s event focused on Artificial Intelligence and its potential use in higher education.
From Lectures to Lessons: Using Technology in Your Classroom
11/29/23
Teaching Technology Integrations Gateway provides information about the teaching technologies integrated with UB Learns. Learn more about approved technologies, requesting new technologies, and hearing how one faculty member is using teaching technology to enhance their course.
Strategies for Teaching Assistants: Reflecting and Refining your Teaching
11/15/23
Balancing being a TA and being a graduate student can be a stressful experience, especially during the mid-semester grind. In this podcast, Ph.D. students Kristen D'Alessandro Merii and Jessica Mencia reflect on how their semester is going and discuss the balancing act between being full-time students and instructors on campus.
Learning from the EDJI Fellowship Program
11/1/23
The Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation (CATT) recently launched the Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion (EDJI) Faculty Fellows Program to support recommendations from the President. This program supports a faculty cohort in inclusive pedagogy, assessment and academic leadership through professional development opportunities and an ongoing community of practice.
The Supposed Looming Specter of Artificial General Intelligence
10/18/23
The optimism surrounding the promise of artificial intelligence has accompanied related research and development for most of the past century. However, skepticism has continuously served to temper delusions of grandeur that might look past the daunting challenges of developing machine or computer technology that can surpass human abilities in holistic and comprehensive intelligence (often referred to as artificial general intelligence).

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