Every year, the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning’s McDougal Graduate Teaching Fellows gather together faculty, staff, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows into a conversation about teaching at our institution. These events are designed to encourage interdisciplinary conversation and community, addressing urgent topics of interest from artificial intelligence to grade inflation.
Past Spring Teaching Forum Topics
- 2025: A Call to Create: Linguistic Justice in an AI World
- 2024: AI and Generative Learning: Not Whether, But How
- 2023: Teaching in the Age of ChatGPT
- 2022: Being Human in the Classroom: Instructor Well-Being and Communities of Care
- 2021: Looking Back and Looking Forward: Reflecting on Yale’s Year of Online Learning
- 2020: Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic
- 2019: Productive Failure: How an Error-Positive Climate Promotes Student Success
- 2018: Difficult Conversations in the Classroom
- 2017: Civic Engagement in Teaching
- 2016: Valuing Diversity in Teaching and Learning
- 2015: The Impact of Technology
- 2014: Are All Yale Students “A” Students?
- 2013: Online Teaching, Student Learning
- 2012: Learning and the Liberal Arts
- 2011: Let’s Talk Lecture
- 2010: Teaching Collaboratively
- 2009: The Joy in Teaching
- 2008: Information Explosion
- 2007: Why Do We Grade?
- 2006: Teaching Students/Training Scholars
- 2005: Teaching and Research
- 2004: Lecture, Section, and Learning
- 2003: Engaging Complexity
- 2002: Reaching Students: The Art of Great Teaching
- 2001: Teaching the Future
- 2000: Teaching in the Life of the Scholar
- 1999: Graduate Education and the Changing Marketplace for Academics