The Poorvu Center is marking an important milestone this year: our 10th anniversary! Join us in a year-long celebration of teaching and learning excellence at Yale and help us shape the future of education.
We will host events open to the entire Yale community throughout the 2024-25 academic year. Please visit this page often for announcements and updates!
Cake Celebration
Every month, students, faculty, staff, and visitors are invited to reflect on a question about teaching and learning by posting notes to a community board. On the dates below, there will be cake to launch that month’s new question! Celebrations take place both in the Poorvu Center lobby at 301 York St. and at Poorvu North in the lobby of Kline Tower.
November Celebration at the Poorvu Center
Our November board celebrates teachers! Stop by the Poorvu Center to tell us about a teacher who inspired you. If you think the board looks festive and fun in this picture you should see it in person!
Upcoming Cake Celebrations!
Tuesday, December 3 | Wednesday, January 8| Tuesday, February 4 | Tuesday, March 4 | Wednesday, April 2 | Thursday, May 1
Promptathon: Celebrate Poorvu’s 10th Anniversary with AI Coffee Talks for Humans
- When: Monday, December 9, 10am-12pm
- Where: Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, CTL 120a
- How: Registration now at https://cglink.me/2dA/r2286378
Join us in a promptathon to celebrate the Poorvu Center for Teaching & Learning’s 10th anniversary. A promptathon is a community-based approach to creating and improving prompts for generative AI. We welcome the full range of AI users from first timers to experienced experimenters. Devon Barker of Poorvu’s Educational Technology team will lead us in this AI adventure.
Please bring your favorite device to interact with AI in the session. As with prior AI Coffee Talks for Humans events, we will have caffeine and treats to fuel human interactions as well.
This promptathon celebration is brought to you by the teams behind Poorvu’s AI Information Sessions: Teaching & Learning and the AI Coffee Talks for Humans event series. Special thanks to the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale Libraries, and the Provost’s Fund for AI Innovation for sponsoring this event. For more information contact Connie Steel, Educational Program Assessment and Life Worth Living, at connie.steel@yale.edu.
Video Reflections
Once a week, on a pop-up basis, community members visiting the Poorvu Center will be invited to record a quick video reflection about teaching and learning.
Workshops and Events
Throughout the academic year, the Poorvu Center will host four public discussions of teaching and learning, organized around the following themes:
October 22: Faculty Innovation in Teaching (introduced by Peter Salovey)
A faculty panel reflected on how college teaching has changed over the past ten years, with examples of innovations and adjustments they have made in their own classrooms, how they have supported others in their teaching, and the resources they have tapped to do so—at the Poorvu Center and beyond. See photos from this energizing event!
