CETL Services
Faculty members of Soka University have devoted themselves to quality improvement in teaching. CETL (Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) is for those teachers who seek to develop their educational abilities. Our services include faculty workshops, lecture meetings for professional development, and study sessions where teachers could exchange useful information and learn from each other.
Various leading activities CETL has promoted have been recognized as worth notice in Japan.
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You can enjoy a variety of services for student learning that CETL has provided so far in SPACe(Student Performance Acceleration Center), which started in 2013.
Resources for Graduate Students
Graduate students might find the following resources useful for a more fulfilled and successful life in your graduate school. The following three Resources are for teachers who want to know various FD services and activities other Japanese and foreign Universities have practiced as well as theoretical and practical strategies for enhancing the quality of teaching. Please view them as well if you are interested.
- Center for the Studies of Higher Education, Nagoya University
「ティップス先生からの7つの提案」大学院生編 - Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of Illinois Teaching/Faculty Career Timeline, Masters Students
- Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of Illinois Teaching/Faculty Career Timeline, Doctoral Students
- OnlinePhDProgram.org 105 Indispensable Resources for Online Academic Research
- Tomorrow’s Professor
This website is available only in Japanese.
This timeline is helpful for masters students who want to pursue a teaching/faculty career.
This timeline is helpful for doctral students who want to pursue a teaching/faculty career.
A variety of search engines for academic resources are available here.
Sponsored by the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning. You can subscribe to Tomorrow’s Professor by going to this page.
Tomorrow’s Graduate Students and Postdocscarries articles that are particularly written for graduate students.
Resources for Peer Assessment Student Staff (PASS)
CETL offers individual consultations for faculty members. This service includes class observations which will be conducted by the trained student volunteers PASS (Peer Assessment Student Staff). The following resources can equip those students who will be working as PASS with useful background knowledge of their service.
Preparing and Conducting a Class
To know what teachers actually do when they prepare for and teach a class is very important if you work as PASS. The website below is the summaries of all steps teachers take and main teaching-related issues they have.
- Center for the Studies of Higher Education, Nagoya University 「成長するティップス先生」
This website is available only in Japanese.
FD activities of Soka University
This page provides the summaries of the past events for Faculty Development of Soka University.
Student Staff for FD in Other Universities
Some universities have such student volunteers as PASS, who help teachers improve the quality of their teaching practices. To learn their activities and experiences may be inspiring for you.
- Institute for Teaching and Learning, Ritsumeikan University FDSReport
This website is available only in Japanese.