Center for Teaching and Learning – Center for Teaching and Learning

Pratt's Center for Teaching and Learning

The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on current best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom, studio pedagogy, experiential learning, group-work, field-trips, and more. The Center aims to create an interdisciplinary and reflective learning environment to address important and often difficult issues in a diverse classroom. The CTL’s guiding values are community, reflection and action.

The Center is ultimately guided by a commitment to promote contemplative and reflective teaching that supports social justice through critical, inclusive, and embodied practices with teachers who are passionate about their course content and also intentional about how they teach the ‘whole’ student.

What's New?

The Art of Designing a Curriculum

December 5, 2019

Congratulations to five members of the ‘Transfer of Learning FLC’ (Faculty Learning Community) for getting their findings published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. Authors: Chris Jensen, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolution in the Department of Mathematics and Science; Brian Brooks, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Foundation Art Program, and the K-12 Center for Art and Design

Pratt/VACI Fellowship in Pedagogy – 2020 Application

November 19, 2019

Pratt Fine Arts and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Pratt Institute continues its partnership with the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution (VACI) in offering the Pratt/VACI Fellowship in Pedagogy. Deadline for Application: February 27, 2020 This Fellowship is an opportunity for a Pratt Institute Fine Arts graduate student to attend the

Pratt Research Brown Bag – Nov 21

November 8, 2019

Research Power Brown Bag — Design by Data November 21 at noon CTL (Pratt Library, 2nd Fl) Every time we are on our phones, seen by a camera or we take the subway we are unknowingly contributing to the ever growing data being collected. As the forces shaping our environment are rapidly changing with this

This movement of inquiry must be directed towards humanization -- the people's historical vocation. The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity; therefore it cannot unfold in the antagonistic relations between oppressors and oppressed. No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.

Pedagogy is a terrain where power and politics are given a fundamental expression, where the production of meaning, desire, language, and values engage the respond to the deeper beliefs about what it means to be human, to dream, and to name and struggle for a particular future and form of social life.

But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well as worlds, that otherwise would not be here. Think of this: how we learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Think of the kinds of experiences you have when you are not expected to be here. These experiences are a resource to generate knowledge.