Welcome to the Center for Teaching & Learning at Pratt Institute
The CTL's Guiding Values are
Community Reflection Action
The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom and studio pedagogy, online and hybrid formats, experiential hands-on learning, and more. The Center aims to create an interdisciplinary, resilient, and reflective learning environment to address the urgency of the ‘now’, ranging from discussing difficult issues in a diverse classroom to larger social and cultural complexities of our times.
Mission and Community Standards: In order to foster faculty collaborations built on a shared understanding of respect, we have established a set of community standards that we expect all CTL members and participants to follow.
Week-by-Week Support: Weeks 1-5
Wishing you a great Fall semester. Here are some tips and resources you might find useful as you get started:
Resources for your students around Mental Health by the JED Foundation. Feel free to share this with them online, on your Canvas Course or in person.
New to Pratt? Click here to explore our New Faculty Orientation resources.
Want to deepen your pedagogical knowledge? Attend the Learning Pedagogy or Creative Accommodations series this Fall.
Wondering about teaching in the age of AI? See this recording from last year, and plan to attend this semester’s conversation around this timely topic.
Here is how you can navigate Canvas. It’s recommended that you upload your syllabus and additional course materials for your students during the semester.
Recent posts:
Starfish: Faculty Guide Video Resource
Click here to view a recording from the Student Success Center with an overview of Starfish and how it can be used in your classes.
Faculty Spotlight: Unlearning Classroom Space
Swati Piparsania’s (School of Design) Fellows project examines, through surveys and deep reading of texts, what are good environments of learning and how changing aspects can promote creativity.
Strategies and Practices for Student Success: Starfish and Beyond
As an instructor, you don’t have to do it all when it comes to student success. There are many offices across campus who are there to support you as you support your students. The easiest way to tap into this network is by using Starfish. Click here for more information on the upcoming workshops.
Join us September 14 – How to Become a Learning Institution: Finding Freedom between Sacrificial Protection and Inherent Vice
How to Become a Learning Institution: Finding Freedom between Sacrificial Protection and Inherent Vice with Dr. Cissie Fu on Thursday, September 14; 1:00 – 2:30