Welcome to CIRTL@UBC

CIRTL@UBC is the UBC node of the Centre for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL), a network of research-intensive universities interested in improving undergraduate teaching through graduate student and postdoc training. The mission of CIRTL is to enhance the training and support available to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who teach undergraduate classes.

At CIRTL@UBC we focus in particular on guiding students to bring their whole selves to their teaching practice, and draw upon their lived experience to inform an empathetic approach and to infuse inclusivity and acceptance into their pedagogical process.  We realise this focus through our programming, and by forming collaborative communities within the CIRTL cohorts that provide a basis for exchange of views, questioning of norms, and exploration of new ideas.

CIRTL @ UBC provides certification at three levels:

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Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning

Committed to advancing graduate training in teaching in higher education.

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is an NSF Center for Learning and Teaching in higher education. CIRTL uses graduate education as the leverage point to develop a national STEM faculty committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences as part of successful professional careers. The goal of CIRTL is to improve the STEM learning of all students at every college and university, and thereby to increase the diversity in STEM fields and the STEM literacy of the nation.

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