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

  • Overcoming Burnout and Reigniting Your Passion for Teaching | Ep. 9
    3/28/25
    Burnout is a challenge many educators face, but how do you recognize it and navigate through it? In our latest episode of The Teaching Table podcast, we talk with Dr. Aisha O'Mally, a professor at the School of Management, about her experience with burnout. She shares how the demands of teaching and workload took a toll on her well-being and how she found ways to regain balance and reconnect with her passion for education. Tune in to hear her insights and reflections on maintaining well-being in academia.

Past Updates

  • Leveraging Course Evaluations for Continuous Improvement
    3/27/24
    Course evaluations often get a bad rap in the teaching world. The benefit of course evaluations is in their timely and frequent review of the data each semester. Reviewing the information more regularly shows your consideration and respect for students and their success, as well as your own.
  • Turnitin in UB Learns
    2/21/24
    UB Learns has a third party plagiarism tool called Turntitin (TII). This tool allows instructors to choose whether to run student submissions through a program that checks for plagiarism, checks for AI-generated work, and can be used to provide feedback to students.
  • 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.