Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE)
CTLE promotes and enhances teaching effectiveness and student learning through faculty-centered initiatives, programs, and sessions. The Center also supports faculty success through a well-rounded lens about what faculty must do to thrive in their careers. An array of teaching related sessions and resources are offered for faculty.
What We Do
We empower faculty excellence in teaching to enable career success by intentionally infusing equity and inclusive practices.
How We Do It
- We provide direct services and programs (e.g., professional, pedagogical) and indirect support through collaboration and connection to resources (e.g., opportunities, networks, evidence, and data).
- We serve as institutional change agents to promote equity and inclusion and solve problems through transformational leadership practices in alignment with VCU’s mission and priorities.
- We facilitate inclusive connections, engagement, and investment in the field of faculty development, particularly as related to teaching, across VCU and beyond.
Semester Resources for Faculty
Events
CTLE hosts workshops and sessions, including annual and pop-up events, as faculty needs arise. If you have an idea for a session or workshop focused on an area of teaching and learning that you and others might like to see, please let us know!
Initiatives
CTLE initiatives cover a broad range of themes related to faculty teaching success. Please see below for more information:
Gen AI & Teaching & Learning
CTLE provides resources and programming related to AI, both in and out of the classroom.
Syllabus Resources
The CTLE is dedicated to offering resources that help instructors to create effective syllabi and structure their teaching semesters to run smoothly. The information below can guide you in starting on the right track:
Syllabus Resources for Faculty and Students
Syllabus best practices tool
Guide to Writing Your Syllabus
Stay up to date on the latest in education, teaching, and learning current events and trends:
Inside Higher Ed
The Chronicle of Higher Education
As faculty, you also have access to a wide wide variety of journals that allow you to keep abreast of trends, studies, and important events regarding teaching and learning in higher education. Access them here, through VCU Libraries.
Faculty participants at a GenAI and Teaching and Learning workshop, 2024