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

  • AI in Teaching and Learning: Spring 2025 Events
    3/5/25
    Throughout the spring semester, CATT is hosting a series of events to help faculty and staff explore how AI can enhance teaching, discover innovative uses for generative AI tools, and learn more about UB’s ongoing efforts to develop policies, guidance, and best practices for responsible AI integration.
  • Generative AI Survey for UB Instructors
    1/29/25
    As the integration of artificial intelligence in education continues to evolve, we are seeking the input of instructors at UB to better understand how these tools are being utilized.

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

  • What’s in a (Building) Name?
    3/3/22
    As a University at Buffalo 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 University 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’s 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’s 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?
  • Notes from the (Evaluation) Underground
    11/17/21
    The temperatures are dipping, we have not seen sunlight in three weeks, and the Bills continue to play with our emotions, which can only mean the end of another fall semester has arrived. With it, of course, thoughts begin to turn toward holiday meals, the beginnings of a festive mindset, and the cheery prospect of course evaluations opening.
  • Student Feedback, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Course Evaluations
    11/3/21
    A confession: despite the title, I don’t really love course evaluations. If two years of answering emails for the campus-wide course evaluations system has taught me anything, it is that I am not alone. They can be a source of enormous stress, a confusing labyrinth of ever-changing user interfaces and new tools that muddy the quest for clear answers.