At the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, we collaboratively work with any Yale instructor or future instructor to support your teaching goals. Whether you’re teaching for the first time, preparing for the academic job market, refreshing your course, looking for a tool to support student learning, or hoping to engage a global audience with your course, we can help you to develop a teaching approach to achieve your goals.
Teaching Programs and Events
Building community for teaching development.
Our Teaching Development & Initiatives and Educational & Engagement Technology teams offer a range of programs and events to support the teaching development of faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars. We strive to build community around teaching and promote reflection throughout our offerings.
Teaching Consultations and Observations
The Poorvu Center routinely assists members of the Yale community with course design, section planning, effective use of technology, assignment development, classroom observations and feedback, developing and interpreting student evaluations, preparing for the academic job market, and addressing challenges in the classroom.
Teaching Fellowships and Funding
Yale’s Poorvu Center offers teaching fellowships and funding opportunities to recognize and support effective teaching practices. These programs provide resources for innovative pedagogy, professional development, and community, fostering equitable and effective teaching across the Yale community.
We support teaching at Yale with various programs, services, and grants.
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4,487
Poll Everywhere interactive polling activities in courses. Poll Everywhere is managed by the Ed Tech & Media team.
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5,720
Number of participants in our Teaching Development and Initiatives programs in 2023-24.
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5,500+
Canvas course sites managed by the Educational Technology & Engagement team in 2023-24.
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12,852,676
Total enrollment in Coursera courses managed by the Digital Education team.
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407,130
Average views of lectures on YouTube managed by the Teaching Studios team.
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$576,370
Teaching grants awarded between 2015-2024
Teaching with Yale Online
Share your expertise with a global audience. Educate the world.
The Poorvu Center is here to guide your journey in digital education. With our proven track record of success, we make it easy for faculty to engage with a broader audience while maintaining Yale’s high standards of academic excellence.
Canvas @ Yale
Canvas provides instructors an online space to organize and present their course content, enabling them to create digital learning experiences.
Instructional Tools
We support a wide variety of external and internal applications that are integrated into Canvas to support, improve, and enhance teaching.
Teaching Resources
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A Guiding Framework for Teaching: Resource Page
Instructors can use the framework to guide their teaching choices about assignments, assessments, and classroom facilitation.
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AI Guidance for Teachers
A guide and list of Yale-related AI resources for faculty instructors interested in using or discussing AI in the classroom.
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Reflective Teaching
Reflective Teaching invites instructors to examine their pedagogy, articulate reasons and strengths for their strategies
We’re here to help!
Reach out to the Poorvu Center team if you have any questions or to learn more about our programs.