Providing guidance in STEM course redesign, instructional materials and techniques, assessment, and education research.
TRESTLE is now complete and individual consultations are no longer offered. This project was supported by the Transforming Education, Stimulating Teaching and Learning Excellence (TRESTLE) program. Learn more about TRESTLE here.
What can we help with?
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Course redesign
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Use of active learning
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Creation of learning goals
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Design of assessments
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Ways to use Learning Assistants (LAs)
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How to conduct educational research (e.g., pre-post testing, statistical analysis, etc.)
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Regular partnership and coaching through a course (including feedback on goals, activities, assessment, and observations and data on instruction)
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And more!
Who provides the consultations?
Our STEM educational advisors are instructors and faculty who have published in the educational literature related to the areas in which they are consulting or, in some cases, received formal recognition as a leader in teaching and learning excellence. Advisors include Fellows of the Center for STEM Learning, faculty in the School of Education, and others. Click here to see our current directory of STEM educational advisors.
Who is eligible?
How do I sign up?
Other resources:
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The Faculty Teaching Excellence Program offers individual consultations to enhance teaching.
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Arts & Sciences Support of Education through Technology (ASSETT) provides consultations around technology-support pedagogical practices, assessment, web and graphic design.
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Office of Information Technology (OIT) has a team of Technology Learning Assistants to answer questions about using academic technologies in instruction and assessment: