The Center for Teaching and Learning helps Brandeis instructors foster deep and meaningful learning experiences that support their students’ intellectual growth and inspire them to improve the world.
If you are an instructor—whether a faculty member, or graduate or undergraduate student serving as a Teaching Assistant or Course Assistant—we encourage you to use the menu at left to browse our events, programs for faculty, resources for TAs, TFs, CAs, and IAs, and online guides. We also encourage you to sign up for a consultation and/or any of the services available to all instructors at Brandeis.
If you're not sure whether we can help, or would like to suggest a new offering, please reach out to us by email or through our contact form (also at left); we'd love to hear from you!
What's new at CTL?
- Apply now for a 2026–2027 TIER Grant! The application portal for next year's Teaching Innovation, Experimentation, and Research Grants funded by the Provost's Office is now live! If you have a project in mind for AY 2026–2027, please apply by midnight on April 20!
- Share a Teaching Resource. We all have them—our go-to articles, illustrations, demos, and activities we use again and again because they have proven so effective at helping students understand a key concept or launch a productive discussion. Please take a moment to share yours—and browse those submitted by others—on our new Share a Teaching Resource page!
- New online guides. Check out our recently published online guides to Attendance & Engagement, Learning Objectives, Oral Assessments, and How People Learn! Each gives some advice about best practices, includes several examples from real courses, and (as appropriate) offers an opportunity to engage with our custom CTL chatbot trained to help you hone the language on your syllabus.
- More advice about generative AI. While we refresh our general advice about Teaching in the Age of Generative AI, take a look at our brand new advice about Creating a Custom Chatbot for your course, and peruse a Resources page that includes workshop handouts and recent studies and articles that are informing our approach.