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    Professional Development

    CIRTL offers a range of professional development programs on an ongoing basis. These programs include online courses, CIRTL webcasts (CIRTLcasts) as well as others. A full listing of upcoming and archived programming is available on CIRTL’s Cross-Network Events Calendar.

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    Certificate Levels

    Participants in CIRTL events and courses are eligible to earn recognition for completing professional development activities. CIRTL offers three progressively more involved levels of certification which allow graduate students and post docs to customize their activities. Each certificate level has specific learning outcomes, to learn about each level visit CIRTL’s Learning Outcomes webpage.

Associate

Associate-level participants must attend at least five professional development events on teaching and learning and submit three short statements that demonstrate understanding of the CIRTL pillars (evidence-based teaching, learning through community, and learning through diversity).

CIRTL Associate Certificate Application form

Practitioner

Practitioner-level participants must complete associate-level requirements, complete a Teaching as a Research project in one of three tracks (evidence-based teaching, learning through community, or learning through diversity), and submit a two-page project report describing their findings.

CIRTL Scholar Certificate Application form

Scholar

Scholar-level participants must complete practitioner-level requirements, and have added to community knowledge about teaching and learning by defending their findings from the TAR project to CIRTL learning-community peers. The significance of CIRTL Scholar Teaching-as-Research work is established through presentation and/or publication of the findings to all-university, regional, national, or international audiences.

CIRTL Scholar Certificate Application form

For specific CIRTL Certificate requirements or to apply