What is CIRTL Center for the Integration of

What is CIRTL?

Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning

CIRTL Mission Enhance excellence in undergraduate education through the development of a STEM national faculty committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse learners as part of successful and varied professional careers.

• Mission: To Advance STEM Undergraduate Learning • Strategy: Prepare Future Faculty • Core Ideas – Teaching as Research – Learning Communities – Learning Through Diversity

Who is CIRTL • 46 Ph. D-granting institutions from across the US and Canada • Common support for CIRTL Mission, Strategy Your and Core Ideas Institution • Each institution shapes CIRTL – Implements CIRTL programming locally – Contributes ideas, time, leadership and programming to the Network

CIRTL Core ideas/Pillars • Teaching-as-Research – STEM Professor as Change Agent – Hypothesize, experiment, observe, analyze, improve – Self-sustained improvement of STEM education • Learning Community – Support growth in teaching and learning – Graduate student, post-doc, faculty community – Foundation for institutional and national change • Learning-through-Diversity – Excellence and diversity are necessarily intertwined – All students bring an array of experiences and skills – Learning of all students is enhanced if all engaged

CIRTL Learning Outcomes • Associate: describe and recognize value • Practitioner: engage and improve • Scholar: advance and disseminate

UD CIRTL • Provide new and various opportunities for STEM graduate students with teaching interests • Complement opportunities offered by departments • Contribute UD knowledge to the network