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Yale University Center for Teaching and Learning

Yale University established its Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in 2014 to support students, postdocs, and faculty across the campus to realize President Salovey’s goal “to be the research institution most committed to teaching and learning.”

This new Center integrated various teaching, tutoring, writing and technology-enabled learning programs that were previously distributed across the university. The Center offers course design workshops and classroom observations, technology workshops, seminars on diversity and inclusion, writing support, science and quantitative reasoning tutoring, and global online learning initiatives via Coursera.

The CTL promotes evidence-based teaching methods for all university instructors, including faculty and graduate teaching fellows. The Center also supports student learning and provides opportunities for students and postdoctoral scholars throughout the University to develop as teachers, mentors, and leaders.

Staff members at the Center routinely assist members of the Yale community with course design, section planning, effective use of technology, assignment development, mid-semester classroom observations and feedback, interpreting student evaluations, and addressing challenges in the classroom.

The Center makes teaching and learning more public by promoting conversation and collaboration among all the stakeholders, and by sharing select university teaching initiatives with a global audience. Evidence-based decisions about teaching and learning are valued, and the Center helps faculty, departments, and programs design meaningful ways to measure impacts.

The Center reports to the Deputy Provost for Teaching and Learning and is led by professional staff members. Center staff collaborate with many other Yale and external organizations to fulfill the unit’s mission.