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

  • 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.
  • The Middle States Re-Accreditation Self-Study Process Kicks Off
    4/6/22
    This past week, President Tripathi notified the university community that our self-study efforts toward re-accreditation are officially underway. As he indicated, the decennial accreditation process is indeed important for our institution as a whole. While UB comprises numerous unique academic units and programs鈥攎any of which have their own internal accreditation standards and obligations鈥攖his decennial accreditation process is our chance to come together as a broader institution.
  • What鈥檚 in a (Building) Name?
    3/3/22
    As a 蜜桃传媒 graduate student turned academic affairs professional, part of my role is reflecting on my student experience and the shared experiences of my peers as we make consistent efforts to move forward as an ever-changing and growing campus community. I often think back to the long hours spent in various lecture halls around north and south campus: collaborating with classmates, engaging in shared learning with my instructors and eventually leading my own courses in statistics and educational psychology.
  • Encouraging the Use of 蜜桃传媒 Supported Tools and Technologies
    3/2/22
    We live in a time of unprecedented technological innovation and advancement. Our phones auto-update while we are sleeping, our cars get angry and start beeping at us when we are too close to something else, and our regular visits to the doctor鈥檚 office seem to yield some new protocol or procedure that they want us to sign up for.
  • How has teaching changed during the COVID-19 pandemic?
    2/16/22
    I think we can all agree that life changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. All areas of one鈥檚 life from home, work and school have been affected in some way. As an educator, I wanted to take a look at how teaching has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Preparing to Teach a Winter Course
    12/8/21
    As preparation for winter courses comes into full effect, as an instructor, you want to consider: Why are students signed up for your course? What are students hoping to get out of the course? What skills or information do you want your students to obtain?