Services for Faculty and Instructional Staff

The Center for Teaching and Learning can assist faculty in their teaching in a variety of ways. Please send an email to ctl@claremont.edu to inquire about any of these services below.

EVENTS

The CTL host workshops and presentations open to all faculty on a regular basis throughout the year.

CTL staff welcome opportunities to work with departments, schools, or discipline groups to offer customized training on any topic relating to teaching and learning. We can also run prior workshops and customize them for your specific needs.

FACULTY FELLOWS

CTL faculty fellows work in collaboration with each other and with CTL staff to research and respond to existing or emerging areas of concern (or interest!) related to teaching at the Claremont Colleges. By the end of the academic year, Fellows will have developed enduring resources to guide individual faculty and campus groups in addressing these issues.

CONSULTATION MEETINGS

CTL staff are available to meet with faculty to discuss specific issues relating to any aspect of teaching, such as curriculum design, assignment design/revision, assessment, classroom climate, or educational technology. Our aim is to help provide faculty with customized solutions to fit their needs.

We can consult over the phone, by Zoom, by e-mail, or face to face, depending on your preferences. Over time, the CTL will develop a network of peer consultants in various discipline areas so that faculty can share their discipline-based teaching knowledge with each other.

CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS

Classroom observations are great ways to share teaching knowledge with each other because they give both the observer and the person being observed a common experience to talk about.

There are three different modes of classroom observation that the CTL supports: (1) peer faculty observations and (2) student observations, and (3) observations by CTL staff

GUILT-FREE BOOK CLUB

Each semester, the CTL chooses a book for our Guilt-Free Book Club. The Book Club is Guilt-Free in that participants encouraged to attend, even if they haven’t done the reading or have missed prior meetings.

The book club meets every other week, typically on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12-1 and lunch is provided.

FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITIES

FLCs are  small groups of faculty who come together regularly over the course of a year to discuss various aspects of their teaching, support each other, and/or work together to solve a shared pedagogical problem or question.  FLCs can range from informal to quite structured, depending on the needs and goals of the group. The CTL is currently supporting 3 FLC’s and is always willing to form more, based on faculty interest.

Important Note about Confidentiality

Evaluation of faculty for the purpose for reappointment or promotion is very different from evaluation of teaching and learning for the purpose of improvement. Therefore, while faculty may share information about their interactions with the CTL with others, CTL staff will keep all conversations with faculty about their teaching and learning in strict confidence. CTL staff will politely decline writing a letter on behalf of a faculty member’s employment, reappointment, or promotion, even if asked to by that person.