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

  • How to Take Advantage of Your Fall Recess to Recharge and Reset
    11/22/22
    The end of the semester doesn鈥檛 have to be exhausting. Taking time for yourself during fall recess to recharge. Reflection is crucial step to this process. I encourage you to challenge your students to do the same.
  • Proctoring Privacy Pro-Tip: Utilizing Zoom Focus Mode
    11/17/22
    Effective exam proctoring is a critical component in the overall process of protecting exam integrity and accurate assessment of student learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, a recent court case involving Cleveland State 猛料视频 (CSU) has highlighted the fundamental contention between rigorous proctoring and student privacy.
  • A Look Back at our 2021-22 Impact
    10/28/22
    Now that we've begun a new academic year, we thought that it would be fitting to look back on CATT's impact throughout the previous academic year. As we gain stride with our work this fall, we are standing on the shoulders of the great work done by each of CATT's respective teams.
  • Instructional Design Strategies in Response to the 2021 UBIT Student Experience Survey
    6/2/22
    UBIT recently released the results of their 2021 Student Experience Survey. Unsurprisingly, students across the 猛料视频 rely upon technology in most facets of their lives, from using GroupMe and Discord to communicate with classmates, the new Level Up studio to play and develop games, and even using smart lightbulbs in their homes.
  • Remembering Ron Gentile
    5/18/22
    UB recently lost a wonderful member of our longstanding community and, as two people whose lives were greatly impacted by J. Ronald Gentile (Ron), we wanted to take a moment to reflect on this extraordinary mentor.
  • UB鈥檚 Educational Design Collaborative Wins Fact2 Award
    4/27/22
    An interview with Jeanne Myers and Steven Sturman. The FACT2 Excellence in Administrative Leadership Award is a system-level honor conferred to acknowledge and recognize consistently noteworthy achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.