For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Minh Trinh, Price School of Public Policy, presents the “AI 101” infographic she designed to provide faculty at Price with practical strategies for choosing AI tools, creating prompts, developing policies, and mitigating unauthorized use. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
A workshop co-facilitated by the Center for Excellence in Teaching, the Kortschak Center for Learning and Creativity, and the Office for Student Accessibility Services, introducing strategies to support Teaching Assistants in their role and enhance their experience as a graduate student learner.
A brief introduction to mindfulness including examples of contemplative pedagogical practices that can be incorporated into courses to support student learning and wellbeing. Created in collaboration with Mindful USC.
A panel discussion on strategies to engage students with appropriate support services at USC. Hear from Patrick Prince, Associate Vice Provost for Threat Assessment and Management, Lynette Merriman, Associate Vice Provost for Campus Support and Intervention, and Naddia Palacios, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Student Life, about how their resources and programs support USC faculty and students.
A description, definition, and examples of active learning techniques in clinical settings. This document provides a planning guide for facilitating active learning in a variety of clinical or simulated settings as well as examples to get started.
This video, presented by CET, provides a brief introduction to AI generators with considerations and examples of how these tools can be incorporated into assignments to advance student learning.
This video, presented by CET, provides ideas and examples of how faculty can use AI generators to generate ideas for the design of syllabi, assignments, and learning activities.
Elise Ruckert and Didi Matthews from the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy discuss design, implementation and revision of a clinical reasoning competency assignment for doctoral physical therapy students at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase
A brief description of case study as a teaching method to improve student critical thinking, collaboration, and communication in various disciplines.
This annotated bibliography of selected educational literature was developed to support USC faculty, administrators, and schools in the development and evaluation of excellence in teaching. The focus, particularly in the section Teaching Best Practices in the USC Definition of Excellence in Teaching Criteria, is on published research that experimentally validates the effectiveness of practices that promote student learning outcomes.
Center for Excellence in Teaching