About Us
The campus has an extensive suite of programs and efforts that support teaching excellence. The CTL serves as a hub for this community, promoting best practices, communicating opportunities and elevating our education practice.
The university is committed to inclusion and increasing support of our diverse student body, starting in the classroom. Inclusive pedagogy is integral to this mission, and the CTL is committed to providing critical training and support for all CU faculty and graduate students in this arena.
Teaching excellence requires an ability to assess our educational progress using research-based practices. The CTL creates capacity, both in our faculty and in our departments, to use assessment techniques that lead to improved teaching and learning. The CTL will be helped in this effort by the new Assessment Team that has been created in the Office of Data Analytics.
Striving to become a student-centered campus is a primary motivation and central project of Academic Futures, as well as a key focus of Foundations of Excellence and the IDEA Plan. The CTL is one of the main project recommendations to achieve this goal.
Establish a Teaching and Learning Center, a centralized community space, dedicated to teaching and learning that transforms our teachers and students and is instrumental in solidifying innovative, research-based teaching practices as a cornerstone of the university.
—Academic Futures Report
The new Center for Teaching & Learning, with a firm commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a core mission, will hopefully provide support for the broader comprehensive campus response to needed professional development regarding diversity and inclusion.
—IDEA Plan Report
The Campus [should] establish a Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outcomes Assessment (CTLO) to broker the relationships between the Division of Student Affairs, the Office of Faculty Affairs, the Office of Data Analytics, Infrastructure and Sustainability, and the Office of Undergraduate Education.
—Foundations of Excellence Report
CTL continues and extends the work of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program and the Graduate Teacher Program.
CTL-ASSETT Annual Report 2024-2025
CTL-ASSETT Annual Report 2023-2024
CTL-ASSETT Annual Report 2022-2023
From 1986 to 2020, the Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (FTEP) strategically supported CU Boulder faculty and postdoctoral scholars in implementing the most effective, evidence-based classroom practices to promote student learning.
From 1984 to 2020, the Graduate Teacher Program (GTP) provided professional development opportunities for all graduate students from all colleges based on students' teaching, research and service responsibilities, and on career goals.