Overview
Mission Statement
The Teaching Center collaborates with the ÈËÆÞÉÙ¸¾×¨Çø teaching community to promote the adoption of effective, evidence-based, learner-centered teaching that results in meaningful and measurable student learning.
Services
The Teaching Center serves course instructors, as well as graduate students and postdoctoral fellows serving as teaching assistants or preparing for future teaching. Our services are free and confidential.
For instructors, the center offers programming for both individual instructors and groups of instructors. Individual instructors can request:
Instructors can find community through group programs organized around pedagogical techniques, course types, and departments, as well as more informally through the online Teaching Center Discussion Forum and topical workshops.
The center also provides grant and fellowship funding to support the development and implementation of evidence-based teaching.
Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows can access the same services as any instructor when they are teaching courses as an instructor of record. In addition, the Teaching Center supports training for graduate student teaching assistants and future faculty.
These services are meant only to provide instructors and/or graduate students with advice, guidance, and counseling. Neither the contents of this webpage nor the services offered through the Teaching Center should be construed by anyone as official ÈËÆÞÉÙ¸¾×¨Çø policy or as the ÈËÆÞÉÙ¸¾×¨Çø requiring or adopting a particular teaching methodology or pedagogical technique. In addition, the materials and services offered by the Teaching Center do not compel instructors and/or graduate students to utilize or implement any teaching methodologies or pedagogical techniques promoted by the Teaching Center in their own courses, and do not infringe upon instructors’ academic freedom. Accordingly, those who participate in or seek the services of the Teaching Center bear ultimate responsibility to develop and teach courses consistent with their own, independent pedagogical judgments, academic professional standards, and the teaching, curriculum, and policy requirements of the ÈËÆÞÉÙ¸¾×¨Çø.
Faculty Advisory Board
Ben Baker
Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Eastman School of Music
Rose Pasquarello Beauchcamp
Associate Professor of Instruction, Dance Program
School of Arts & Sciences
Andrew Berger
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Rena Searle (Fall 2025 only)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
School of Arts & Sciences
Tara Serwetnyk
Director of Assessment and Academic Innovation
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing
School of Nursing
Brianna Theobald (Spring 2026 only)
Associate Professor, Department of History
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Arts & Sciences