Join a Teaching Circle this Fall

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is pleased to announce the following Teaching Circles for Fall semester 2025. A teaching circle is a small group of faculty and teaching staff who meet regularly on-campus and/or Zoom to discuss a specific teaching and learning topic.

Deadline to join is September 4, 2025.

Can We Teach Students How to Be Motivated? Isn't Motivation Something Students Just Have (or, Sadly, Don't)? (Fall 2025)
Led by Christine Ross, University Writing Program, SOIS

Celebrating Small Successes (Fall 2025)
Led by Matthew Vollmer, Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow in Business; Department of MIS, Marketing and Analytics, SCB

Community Rights While Abutting LLMs/GenAI (Fall 2025)
Led by W. Michelle Harris, School of Interactive Games and Media, GCCIS

Creating Interactive and Engaging Online Courses (Fall 2025)
Led by Jessamy Comer, Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow in Humanities/Social Sciences; Department of Psychology, COLA

Grammar Instruction for D/HH Students: Discussion and Best Practices (Fall 2025)
Led by Erin Finton, Department of Liberal Studies, NTID

Integrating Sustainability into Engineering and Related Disciplines Curricula (Fall 2025)
Led by Lucio Salles, Department of CET/EMS, CET

Teaching Well and Living Well at RIT (Fall 2025 and Spring 2026)
Led by Sandi Connelly, Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic Affairs; School of Life Sciences, COS

Teaching with TutorBot: Applying Generative AI Across Disciplines (Fall 2025)
Led by Christopher Collison, AI Hub, AI Foundry, Academic Affairs; School of Chemistry and Materials Sciences, COS; and Tom Fuller, COS

Transformative Teaching and Critical Pedagogy: Learning Toward Liberation (Fall 2025)
Led by Joshua Rashaad McFadden, School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, CAD; and Katrina Overby, School of Communication, COLA

Using myCourses Even More Effectively: Learning from Our Students (Fall 2025)
Led by Neil Hair, Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic Affairs; Department of MIS, Marketing and Analytics, SCB

To see which circle(s) may be of interest to you, read the full description of the circle on the CTL website and email the circle's facilitator no later than September 4, 2025. Teaching circles typically hold their first meeting in the third or fourth week of the semester.