Programs at the Center for Teaching and Learning:

The Center for Teaching and Learning’s programming supports Pratt faculty in examining their pedagogical practices and course design within supportive learning communities and groups. Topics include exploring the use of educational technology in online, hybrid and in person teaching modalities, strengthening inclusion and equity initiatives by promoting flexibility, empathy, and kindness. The CTL programming ranges from yearly events and forums, to semester-long ongoing programs and series, as well as one-off presentations and workshops where the focus varies by semester. The CTL is committed to promoting and modeling inclusive pedagogy and community-based learning through the structure and content of our workshops and events. We intend to create spaces for cross-disciplinary collaborations and to support the work of all Pratt faculty.

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Featured Programs

Faculty Learning Communities (FLC): Multidisciplinary research collaboratives with a strong commitment to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), lasting two semesters.

CTL Faculty Fellows: The Faculty Fellows advance pedagogical practices for Pratt faculty, and especially in alignment with the specific needs of each School. This is a year-long commitment, with the ultimate goal of creating school or department based communities of learning, as well as advancing cross-disciplinary institute-wide strategies to improve classroom and studio practices and inclusive pedagogies.

The Fall Forum takes place annually and includes dozens of faculty presentations, panels, workshops, and discussions around the years’ unifying theme.

Click the links below to learn more about the past Fall Forums

2023 Fall Forum: Teaching Now
2022 Fall Forum: Building Futures of Sustainable Presence
2021: Pedagogies of Reparation and Rebuilding
2020: Teaching with Canvas
2019: Frameworks for Equity and Inclusion
2018: Provocations, Proposals and Possibilities

Ongoing Programs

Asynchronous, self-paced series: Take part in one of our self-paced programs to build your knowledge on your own schedule!
Deep Dive Community: Intensive mini-learning communities to deep dive into specific topics in support of our commitment to all of Pratt’s pillars, but with a specific focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. These communities typically meet 3-4 times over the course of a month to explore a particular topic in depth and collaborate to generate and answer questions.
Summer Institute: The CTL Summer Playground Institute is an annual program that takes place after the conclusion of the spring semester. The series is playful by definition, and offers an opportunity for faculty to address concrete pedagogical questions and techniques in an interdisciplinary community. Past topics include the Resilient Teaching Online (2020), The Playground Institute: Online Teaching Strategies (2021), Critique as Playground (2022), and Imaginative Teaching (2023).
Faculty Spotlights: Join us for this online faculty-led series where colleagues highlight a certain classroom practice, use of a technological platform, pedagogical approach, or research on classroom/studio practice they’ve found invaluable and especially relevant for cross-departmental sharing.
Technical Training Sessions: While much of our programming is pedagogically focused, we also offer technical training sessions throughout each semester, often about learning technologies. These sessions include in depth step-by-step training and time for Q&A, supplementing our online training resources.