Course Design – Pratt Institute Center for Teaching and Learning

Faculty Spotlight: Making the Mundane Meaningful 🗓

Classroom management involves many mundane tasks: taking attendance, communicating with absent students, and so on. These duties are often undertaken in a routine way, in between the primary activities of teaching and learning in the classroom or studio. Join us as we hear from two Pratt faculty members—Dominica Giglio (HMS) and Micki Spiller (Foundation)—whose teaching practices transform these mundane classroom management tasks into meaningful and engaging activities embedded within the larger context of teaching and learning.

April 24, 2026

Collaboration and Curiosity: Writing Intensive and Generative AI 🗓

This Spring Workshop series continues the Fall exploration of how generative AI is reshaping writing pedagogy in GenEd and Writing Intensive (WI) courses.

March 4, 2026

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.

February 11, 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.

February 9, 2026

Resolutions: Implementing New Ideas and Practices in Teaching and Learning 🗓

Do you have ideas for how to improve your courses or your teaching, but struggle to find the time and resources to implement them? Bring those new ideas and practices to life in the new year with the CTL and join the Spring 2026 cohort of Resolutions!

November 25, 2025

Resources: AI Literacy Webinar

In this session, Pratt librarians Hannah Fountain-Pileggi and Morgan Võ introduce a range of generative AI technologies, outline ethical and pedagogical considerations associated with AI use, and explore key features of AI literacy from a critical research perspective.

September 12, 2025

Resources: Socially Engaged Reading with Perusall and Hypothes.is

View the recording, resources, and notes from a faculty spotlight presentation where Lara Allen (HMS) and Amanda Matles (SSCS) show and tell about two socially engaged reading platforms, Perusall and Hypothes.is. They discuss how instructors can integrate these tools to support peer instruction, reading assignment accountability, flipped classrooms, and active learning.

April 30, 2025

Course Wrappers – Spring 2025 🗓

It’s (almost) a wrap on the Spring 2025 semester! In these sessions, we will reflect on the semester, discuss the highs and lows in our courses, and contemplate what we want to bring with us into the new semester and what we want to leave behind.

March 31, 2025

Socially Engaged Reading with Perusall and Hypothes.is 🗓

Lara Allen (HMS) and Amanda Matles (SSCS) show and tell about two socially engaged reading platforms, Perusall and Hypothes.is. They will discuss how instructors can integrate these tools to support peer instruction, reading assignment accountability, flipped classrooms, and active learning.

March 26, 2025

Resolutions: Implementing New Ideas and Practices in Teaching and Learning 🗓

Do you have ideas for how to improve your courses or your teaching, but struggle to find the time and resources to implement them? Have you been inspired by a CTL event, but lacked a clear path and support to act on that inspiration? Bring those new ideas and practices to life in the new year with the CTL and join the Spring 2025 cohort of our Resolutions program today!

November 25, 2024

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