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The CTL's Guiding Values are Community, Reflection, & Action

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The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom and studio pedagogy, online and hybrid formats, experiential hands-on learning, and more. The Center aims to create an interdisciplinary, resilient, and reflective learning environment to address the urgency of the ‘now’, ranging from discussing difficult issues in a diverse classroom to larger social and cultural complexities of our times. 

Mission and Community Standards: In order to foster faculty collaborations built on a shared understanding of respect, we have established a set of community standards that we expect all CTL members and participants to follow.

What we offer in all CTL programming are tools and perspectives with which to approach your practice. Contexts, individual and collective, are always to be considered when employing any framework. We hope you’ll take a reflective approach to your teaching, using the resources and practices suggested here when they seem fit.

What's happening next at the CTL?

Imagining a University for the Common Good: Higher Education and Its Values Reading Group
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Collaboration and Curiosity: Writing Intensive and Generative AI
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AI and the Classroom: Open Conversation
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Creative Accommodations: Spring 2026
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Week-by-Week Resources 

Weeks 1-5

Wishing you a great Spring semester! Here are some tips and resources you might find useful as you get started:

  • For answers to common questions about teaching at Pratt, see our Useful Links and FAQ page. 
  • At the start of each semester, the Learning/Access Center will share information with instructors about students in their courses with accommodations. Read more about this process, and how to best support students with accommodations, here.
  • Looking for information on Canvas LMS? Check out our revamped Canvas resource landing page.
  • The CTL’s Course Design Resource Hub has information about classroom practices and techniques, course design, feedback/evaluation and more.
  • We’ve revamped our Supporting Faculty self-paced series! Thank you to our colleagues who have taken the time to introduce themselves here – we have 19 offices included in this series so far, with more collaborations on the horizon! Click to join.
  • Considering wellness in your classroom, be sure to check out our new guide: Promoting Wellbeing Pedagogies in Higher Education.
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Creative Accommodations: Spring 2026 🗓

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), in collaboration with the Learning/Access Center (L/AC), will offer the Creative Accommodations self-paced series again this Spring semester, punctuated with online synchronous Zoom conversations. The goal of this series is to support faculty as they respond effectively and appropriately to students with accommodations.

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February 11, 2026

Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) Dialogues 🗓

This year, the Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) Committee is inviting the 2026 DTA finalists to attend an informal event that we are calling the DTA Dialogues. The event will be co-hosted on Zoom by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Academic Senate.

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February 10, 2026

Teaching Reflection Lab 🗓

In this 3-session program, faculty will come together with colleagues to explore their assignment prompts and examples of student work in order to explore, in community, the nature of learning as it happens in their classrooms.

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February 9, 2026

Miss Othmar School for Teachers – with Timmy Simonds 🗓

Intimate meeting for teachers to listen and reflect on the sound of teaching. Participating teachers will listen collectively to recordings of themselves teaching through a tool that distorts the quality of the audio recordings. The aim of this meeting is not to assess course content nor delivery of information but instead to listen for things like rhythm, embodiment, the environment, and transitions.

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February 5, 2026

Crafting Community / Making Meaning 🗓

Creative practices help us process uncertainty, build community, and find new perspectives on challenges. In this series, we’ll be engaging in various community building activities and creative exercises (e.g., collaging, storytelling, origami, and more). We’ll meet in person in the East Reading Room (Library, 2nd Floor) on select Wednesdays from 12pm to 2pm.

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January 28, 2026

Embodied Classroom Mediation: Spring 2026 🗓

In this course participants will discuss and engage in physiological practices to self-regulate and improve ethical decision making for classroom facilitation. Interactive exercises will provide an opportunity for collaboration and exploration of personal challenges, offering practical tools to support growth and connection.

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January 13, 2026

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