Academic Leadership Development Program (ALD): The ALD program provides faculty leaders with the tools and skills to navigate the myriad issues that arise with leadership roles, a need identified by the University-wide Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development and the Human Resources Department. Designed for Tufts' academic leaders (academic deans, department chairs, program directors, etc.) the ALD is a five-module program offered in six half-day sessions over three months that addresses: 1) role of academic leader, 2) academic leader as university agent, 3) communications and conflict resolution, 4) managing change, and 5) role as coach and mentor. Each module includes learning objectives, pre-work for the participants, presentations and activities.
CELT Faculty Fellows Seminar: The Faculty Fellows Seminar is comprised of a small group of faculty from across the university who have applied and been accepted into a semester long program. This seminar is aimed at helping faculty to develop their skills as teachers. Seminar participants have the opportunity to hear from speakers on topics of teaching and learning, discuss specific issues with each other, and receive individualized and small-group coaching. The seminar is not a remedial course. Rather, it is for professors who are already successful in their teaching, but who wish to reach the next level in terms of teaching effectiveness.
University Seminar: CELT works closely with this program, initiated by Provost Jamshed Bharucha, to combine interdisciplinary research with civic engagement. The courses, which are open to upper level undergraduate and graduate and professional students from across the university, are an exciting opportunity for faculty and students from across the disciplines to engage in exploring cutting edge topics of international concern.
Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT): Tufts' Graduate Institute For Teaching works closely with CELT and provides Tufts graduate students with summer workshops on pedagogy, followed by a co-teaching opportunity during the following Fall semester with a faculty mentor.
Teaching Innovation Grant Program: With financial support from the Teagle Foundation, we invite faculty and graduate students to design, implement, and evaluate teaching innovations specifically designed to improve undergraduate student learning.
