Founded in 1989 as a faculty initiative, the Center for Teaching Excellence promotes excellence in teaching by getting to know our faculty and graduate students, learning from them, fostering leadership, and bringing people together from across the University. We provide orientations, consultations, workshops, and print and web resources on teaching and academic success. We focus on implementing evidence-based, high-impact educational practices with the Duquesne community of teachers and learners.
CTE guides faculty and graduate students to...
- Implement sound instructional strategies focused on student learning by embracing evidence-based pedagogical ideas and a spirit of innovation.
- Create well-designed courses and curriculum that incorporate strong learning-assessment strategies resulting in deep learning.
- Succeed as teacher-scholars engaged in pedagogical development and academic research in whatever stage they are in (tenure-track, tenured, non-tenure track, adjunct, teaching assistants).
- Approach personhood holistically with a view to understanding their students and themselves as people balancing personal and academic demands.
- Feel like they belong and contribute to a community that values teaching excellence, collaboration and diversity.
The Center for Teaching Excellence offers the Certificate of University Teaching, which is a voluntary and self-paced opportunity for graduate students to document their college teaching in preparation for faculty careers. The Certificate and Advanced Certificate of University Teaching are non-credit programs designed to help graduate students grow as teacher-scholars.
For further information, please contact us:
Center for Teaching Excellence
727/730 Fisher Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
412.396.5177
cte@duq.edu