Overview
Mission Statement
The Teaching Center collaborates with the University of Rochester teaching community to promote the adoption of effective, evidence-based, inclusive teaching that results in meaningful and measurable student learning.
Services
The Teaching Center serves instructors who are currently teaching courses primarily enrolling students in the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) and Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (Hajim), as well as SAS and Hajim graduate students serving as teaching assistants or preparing for future teaching. Our services are free and confidential.
For instructors, the center offers programming for both individual instructors and groups of instructors. Individual instructors can request:
Instructors can find community through group programs organized around pedagogical techniques, course types, and departments, as well as more informally through the online Teaching Center Discussion Forum and topical workshops.
The center also provides grant and fellowship funding to support the development and implementation of evidence-based teaching.
Graduate students can access the same services as any instructor when they are teaching courses primarily enrolling SAS and Hajim students. In addition, the Teaching Center supports training for SAS and Hajim graduate student teaching assistants and future faculty.
These services are meant only to provide instructors and/or graduate students with advice, guidance, and counseling. Neither the contents of this webpage nor the services offered through the Teaching Center should be construed by anyone as official University of Rochester policy or as the University of Rochester requiring or adopting a particular teaching methodology or pedagogical technique. In addition, the materials and services offered by the Teaching Center do not compel instructors and/or graduate students to utilize or implement any teaching methodologies or pedagogical techniques promoted by the Teaching Center in their own courses, and do not infringe upon instructors’ academic freedom. Accordingly, those who participate in or seek the services of the Teaching Center bear ultimate responsibility to develop and teach courses consistent with their own, independent pedagogical judgments, academic professional standards, and the teaching, curriculum, and policy requirements of the University of Rochester.
Faculty Advisory Board
Rose Pasquarello Beauchcamp
Associate Professor of Instruction, Dance Program
Andrew Berger
Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Peter Christensen
Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center
Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities, Department of Art and Art History
Paul Funkenbusch
Associate Dean, Education and New Initiatives, Hajim School
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Materials Science
Jon Holz
Associate Professor of Instruction, Department of Biology
Elaine Sia
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Department of Biology
Co-Director, Undergraduate Program in Biology and Medicine
Brianna Theobald
Associate Professor, Department of History
Director of Graduate Studies