Curious about teaching and learning innovations on campus? Looking for inspiration for your own courses and experiences with students?

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning for our annual Spring Celebrating Teaching Day, an event dedicated to celebrating the passion and dedication that Georgia Tech faculty and instructors bring to the classroom, lab, and other educational connections with students. The event features a keynote speaker, a poster session, and recognition of Thank-a-Teacher, Student Recognition of Teaching Excellence: Semester Honor Roll, and Student Recognition of Teaching Excellence: CIOS Award recipients. We aim to foster community among all educators who share in the mission of creating engaging, challenging, and supportive learning experiences for their students throughout the year.

CTL Special Events

► Celebrating Teaching Day

► Course Design Studio

► Faculty Development Workshops

► Fall Teaching Kickoff

► GTREET

► Teaching with Technology Summer Institute

2025 Celebrating Teaching Day:

Our next Celebrating Teaching Day will be on March 28, 2025, 9:00am-1:00pm in the Midtown Ballroom Exhibition Hall. Please Save the Date

9:00 - 9:30 am: Check-in/Coffee

9:30 - 11:00 am: Poster Session 

11:00 - 11:45 am: Luncheon

11:45 am - 12:45 pm: Keynote "Grading for Growth: Toward more humane, authentic, and trustworthy ways to evaluate student work" by Dr. Robert Talbert, Professor of Mathematics and Senior Faculty Fellow for Learning Futures, Grand Valley State University

1:00 pm: Event ends

 Register here

Poster Session:

During this signature Spring event, Georgia Tech educators showcase their teaching and learning work in a poster session which offers a glimpse into their classrooms. Attendees will explore projects created by innovative and entrepreneurial colleagues across campus and have the unique opportunity to share ideas and inspiration among colleagues.

Interested in presenting a poster? Learn more and sign up here. 

Honors and Recognitions:

Recipients of Thank a Teacher notes, Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: CIOS Honor Roll, and Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: CIOS Award from the previous year are recognized during the luncheon.

 

2025 Keynote 

Grading for Growth: Toward more humane, authentic, and trustworthy ways to evaluate student work

Grading as we know it is significantly broken. The traditional approach involving one-and-done assessment, points, partial credit, and averaging is demotivating for students, demoralizing for faculty, time-consuming, disconnected from science, and of questionable statistical validity. But it is changeable, and in fact there is no better time than now to explore alternatives that prioritize student growth and align better with how humans learn. In this talk, we will explore the history and issues of traditional grading, propose a framework for "alternative" grading practices, and see how to implement alternative grading without massive requirements of time or energy.

About the Speaker:

Robert Talbert, Ph.D. 
Professor of Mathematics and Senior Faculty Fellow for Learning Futures 
Grand Valley State University
talbertr@gvsu.edu / rtalbert.org / @RobertTalbert

Biographical sketch:  Robert Talbert is a Professor of Mathematics at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University. Through over 25 years of being a classroom instructor at small liberal arts colleges and regional public universities, Robert has experimented with and advocated for research-based, student-focused innovation in teaching and learning. He was an early adopter of computer-based learning in mathematics and helped to pioneer the use of flipped instruction at the college level. He turned these experiences into a blog, _Casting Out Nines_, in 2006 which catalyzed a global online community around instructional innovation.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Robert holds the position of Senior Faculty Fellow for Learning Futures at Grand Valley State, where he works on behalf of the university president to coordinate institution-wide pedagogical innovation projects. He is the author of _Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty_ and the co-author (with his GVSU colleague Dr. David Clark) of _Grading For Growth_, and gives keynote addresses and workshops to faculty groups throughout the US and abroad. His continued writing projects include the _Grading For Growth_ Substack (gradingforgrowth.com) and _Intentional Academia_, a Substack publication about productivity and purpose in higher education.

Robert lives in western Michigan with his wife, teenage children, and three cats. On weekends and evenings, you can find him playing bass in one of four bands he belongs to in the Grand Rapids area.

 

 

Information about past keynote speakers is available on the past Celebrating Teaching Day webpages below. 

If you have any questions about Celebrating Teaching Day, please contact Dr. Carol Subiño Sullivan.

Past Celebrating Teaching Day Events

We have been Celebrating Teaching with this event for over 15 years! Please use the links below to explore some of the events held in past years.

Visit this page to learn more about Celebrating Teaching Day 2024.
Visit this page to learn more about Celebrating Teaching Day 2023.
Visit this page to learn more about Celebrating Teaching Day 2022.
Visit this page to learn more about Celebrating Teaching Day 2021.
Visit this page to learn more about Celebrating Teaching Day 2020.
Visit this page to learn more about Celebrate Teaching Day 2019.
Visit this page to learn more about Celebrating Teaching Day 2018.

 

Questions? Please contact Carol Subino Sullivan via csubino@gatech.edu