Teaching Resources

Our mission at the Graduate Teaching Center is to promote excellent teaching at Yale University. We encourage Faculty and TAs to reflect on their goals as pedagogues, and we offer programs and resources to help turn these ideas and aims into practical applications for the classroom. In addition to our handbook Becoming Teachers, we've developed a collection of resources covering many topics of interest to new and advanced teachers. You will find many practical tips for improving your teaching, and activities and handouts you can use with your students. If you work with a group of teachers, you may also find our topical workshop outlines useful.

Teaching students to write good papers

Advanced discussion leading

Teaching students with different learning styles and levels of preparation

Finding advanced teaching opportunities

Teaching Journal Articles

In addition to these handouts, we encourage you familiarize yourself with Becoming Teachers.

For more discussion of these and other topics as well as for a chance to share your ideas with your peers, we invite you to attend any of the teaching workshops we offer throughout the year.

The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, 1998

A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College

Teaching and the Academic Job Market (All of the below are PDFs requiring Acrobat Reader)

Sample Teaching Statements:
Mechanical Engineering and American Studies

What's Your Teaching Philosophy? Questions about Teaching to Help Formulate A Teaching Statement

Course and Syllabus Design