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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?

Crafting Community / Making Meaning
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Curiosity Hour: FA26
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Faculty Spotlights
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Beyond Accommodation: Disability and the Future of Higher Education Reading Group
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Making Monsters
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Week-by-Week Resources 

Weeks 6-10

Approaching Midterm can bring up the concerns of both professors and students. Here are some helpful resources to make the most of this time of self-reflection and assessment, and sail smoothly to the end of the term.

  • As your students reach the halfway point in the semester, it’s a great time to ask for feedback from them on the class. We’ve used this basic Start-Stop-Continue framework since it offers a structure for feedback, with an opportunity to share back with students what you are and aren’t willing to change.
  • Setting the Stage for an Inclusive Classroom recording and resources, and creating an inclusive classroom through low-stakes assignments, the accommodation of varied learning styles, and improvement of the classroom environment
  • Looking to better organize your grades within Canvas? Watch this recording from an old session the CTL ran in Spring 2025. Or look at the “Feedback & Evaluation” section on our Course Design page for more textured information.

 

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Explore the CTL Pinboard for resources on topics such as AI, Student Feedback, Lesson Planning, and more!

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Recent posts:

Curiosity Hour: Staying with Collapse 🗓

In this Curiosity Hour, we will stay with one theme within that uncertainty: the collapse. We’ll get curious about what it means to encounter environmental, social, and systemic unraveling that is still taking shape. What it asks of us, and how do we orient ourselves within it?

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October 14, 2026

Mo(u)rning session & Grief Weaving 🗓

Imagine the dawn: the first light of morning, a threshold hour that had to pass through the dark before it could arise. We’re halfway through our 2026 CTL Fall Forum, and you are invited into this mo(u)rning’s griefweaving session to notice how grief can be held in new forms.

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October 14, 2026

Confidence and Courage Through Community 🗓

This session will feature facilitators and members of the Course-Based Civic Engagement Faculty Learning Community in conversation about the work done so far in the FLC and around the Institute. They will discuss their experiences and the challenges and questions that arise in this kind of work, and will invite participants to join in the conversation in order to further demystify the process.

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October 14, 2026

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