The Center for Teaching and Learning offers a wide variety of programming to meet the needs of faculty throughout the university. These opportunities are designed to build connections across campus, spark new ideas and strategies, or simply re-energize one’s teaching.
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers workshops to provide Boise State educators with opportunities to reinforce effective teaching practices, learn from and share with colleagues, and reflect upon how to create learning environments in which all students can succeed. All educators- whether tenured faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, adjunct faculty, or graduate assistants- are welcome to attend!
The CTL offers a variety of certificates that provide opportunities for educators to develop their teaching practices. CTL certificates focus on foundational skills in effective teaching.
College Teaching Preparation Program
The College Teaching Preparation Program is open to graduate students in all disciplines and regardless of current teaching duties. The program recognizes graduate students who engage in professional development around teaching with a certificate of completion. The program will be especially beneficial to graduate teaching assistants and those whose career plans may include teaching.
The CTL has expanded its support for course design to better accommodate the ways in which instructors would prefer to engage in the course design process. Course Design Institute (CDI) and Course Design Academy (CDA) guide participants through the process of developing effective, aligned, and student-centered courses.
The Student Partners Program connects Boise State faculty with trained undergraduate students who serve as thought partners in teaching and learning. Together, faculty and students explore how classroom experiences can be more engaging and effective for everyone. This helps to strengthen learning by bringing student perspectives directly into course design and reflection.
The Center for Teaching and Learning is committed to celebrating and highlighting great teaching at Boise State. No matter how small or large a teaching gesture, project, or effort may be, they all make an impact on our learning community and we enjoy highlighting the great work they do.
Each year, the Center for Teaching and Learning sponsors and facilitates a number of faculty learning communities (FLCs), which are structured cohorts of faculty and staff that build community, engage in scholarly practice, and engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL).
The CTL offers orientations each August for both new faculty and graduate teaching assistants.
Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning
The Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning Summit is an annual opportunity for educators across campus to gather in community to focus on a timely topic in teaching and learning.
The Peer Observation Program is a faculty development opportunity to foster collaborative learning, reflective teaching practices, and personal growth in a supportive environment. In groups of three, instructors observe each other’s classes, participate in group discussions, and reflect on their experiences.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Grants
The CTL is enhancing its support for educators who want to examine and improve their teaching through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This year-long program will guide participants step-by-step through the process of designing and conducting a SoTL study.
Service-learning enhances student learning, addresses critical community issues, and builds students’ capacities to be changemakers in their local, national and global communities.