Faculty

  • Devices in the Classroom: Balancing Student Engagement and Accessibility

    How to design intentional classroom device policies that support engagement and access.

  • Effective Proctoring of Exams

    Proctoring styles will vary, but these suggestions are meant to help instructors create a fair environment and reduce confusion.

  • A Guiding Framework for Teaching

    The framework highlights the teaching philosophy and concepts that shape our educational development programming

  • 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. 

  • Active Learning

    Active learning is instruction that creates opportunities for students to actively participate in the knowledge-making process. 

  • Reflective Teaching

    Reflective Teaching invites instructors to examine their pedagogy, articulate reasons and strengths for their strategies

  • A Guiding Framework for Teaching: Resource Page

    Instructors can use the framework to guide their teaching choices about assignments, assessments, and classroom facilitation.  

  • Course (Re)Design Institute: May 19-21, 2026

    The Course (Re)Design Institute (in person from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. May 19-20 and 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. May 21) supports faculty to design or redesign a course through foundational teaching and learning principles. Participants will engage with overarching concepts of course design in five core sessions and during individual work time. Two additional sessions on support resources for students and teach…

  • Spring Teaching Forum 2026: Reclaiming and Sustaining Joy in the Classroom

    How do we sustain our joy in teaching? Alternatively, how might the joy we reclaim in the classroom sustain us outside of it? We first explored this topic in a 2009 Spring Teaching Forum. 17 years later, against the backdrop of an increasingly fraught national and international landscape, can we imagine our classrooms as places of refuge and hope? This event will explore how teaching might help…

  • Open Educational Resources Showcase

    For the past three years, language faculty members have been creating Open Educational Resources (OERs) through a pilot of Pressbooks, an online publishing platform, supported by Yale Library, the Poorvu Center, and the Center for Language Study. Professors have leveraged the affordances of Pressbooks and OER concepts - interactivity, multimedia, affordability, accessibility, customizability - …