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Certificates

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.

What certificates are available?

What is the value of earning a certificate?

  • These certificates represent ways for educators to earn recognition for and document work they may already be doing in support of effective teaching.
  • Ongoing professional development around teaching, especially in the form of these certificates, will help educators become more effective teachers and can be reported during annual evaluations and/or tenure & promotion reviews.

How is the completion of a certificate recognized? 

  • You will receive a certificate of completion.
  • We will send a letter to your department chair letting them know about your accomplishment.
  • You will be recognized at CTL events and/or in our newsletter.
  • Your completion of the certificate will be reported to Faculty 180.

How much time will this take? 

  • Completing a certificate is expected to take 30-40 hours, although how that time is spent will look different for the different certificates.
  • The Reflective Teaching Practice Certificate includes activities that are designed to be spread out over multiple semesters.
  • The Course Design Certificate includes activities that can be completed in a shorter period of time, and therefore could be earned in the semester following the completion of a CTL course design program.
  • The Evidence-Based Teaching Certificate is focused on ten teaching practices which are the focus of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s Ten for Teaching workshop series. Instructors seeking to earn the certificate will need to demonstrate each of these practices using evidence of their choosing. Each practice is introduced in its own workshop and each workshop will be offered once each academic year. Although we recommend participation in each of the workshops (which could be completed in a single year or over multiple years), the skills themselves might also be developed in other ways, either through participation in other CTL programs – past or future – or through individual learning.