Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning |

What we do

We support faculty teaching.

We engage with faculty through programs, events and consultations to foster teaching innovation and promote deep student learning.

We help students learn.

We invite students to take advantage of Poorvu Center writing, tutoring, and mentoring resources specifically designed to support academic and personal success at Yale.

We explain educational technology.

We support instructors as they integrate educational technology across course modalities.

We advise teaching fellows.

We partner with graduate students and postdoctoral associates as they develop their teaching skills.

News

The Poorvu Center’s Broadcast Studio has a new name: The Teaching Studios!

March 18, 2025

This name better reflects our Center’s mission to promote equitable and engaged teaching, empower students in their learning, and make education more collaborative and public. The new name also...

Yale Library and Poorvu Center collaborate on AI literacy framework for faculty

March 11, 2025

Digital Education at Yale Takes Center Stage During Poorvu Center 10-Year Anniversary Event

March 10, 2025

Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024

May 16, 2024

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Apply to be a McDougal Teaching Fellow in the Poorvu Center

The McDougal Graduate Teaching Fellows at the Poorvu Center lead programs on effective and innovative teaching, develop teaching resources, and provide individual consultations for graduate student instructors at Yale. The Poorvu Center emphasizes teamwork as well as individual participation. This group of approximately 20 doctoral graduate students facilitates a wide array of programming, including Teaching at Yale Day for first-time teaching fellows, discipline-specific Fundamentals of Teaching workshops, and advanced teaching workshops. Apply now!