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How do I earn a CIRTL Certificate?
You can earn a CIRTL certificate by participating in one or more of our CIRTL@Texas A&M programs. You can receive multiple certificates at each level if you participate in multiple programs. For example, you can receive an Associate Certificate for participating in the Academy for Future Faculty and then receive another Associate Certificate for participating in the CIRTL online course.
CIRTL@Texas A&M Program Timeline
Different programs are offered at different times of years and for different durations.| Certificate Level | CIRTL@Texas A&M Program | Fall | Spring | Summer | Who is Eligible? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate | CIRTL Online Course & Local Learning Community (7 weeks) | An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching | Advancing Learning through Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching | An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching | TAMUS Graduate Students, Post-Doctoral Scholars, & Faculty |
| Academy for Future Faculty | Fall and Spring: No Summer sessions | Texas A&M and Texas A&M branch campuses, Graduate students, and Post-Doctoral Scholars | |||
| Graduate Teaching Consultant Program | Year Round Progam (Nominations due during Spring Semester) | TAMU-CS Graduate Students | |||
| Practitioner | Advanced Teaching Practices: Research-Driven Approaches for Higher Education | Spring | TAMUS Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Scholars, Beginning Faculty | ||
| Teaching as Research Fellows | Year-Round Program (Applications due during Spring Semester) | TAMUS Graduate Students & Post-Doctoral Scholars; NOTE: only TAMU-CS and Galveston Graduate students can receive stipends | |||
| Scholar | Teaching as Research Fellows | Year-Round Program (Applications due during Spring Semester) | |||
CIRTL@Texas A&M Program Descriptions
Academy for Future Faculty (AFF): one-year long learning community that offers a variety of seminars, workshops and activities supporting professional development in teaching, research, and service. Seminars topics in teaching include learning outcomes and the course development cycle, syllabus design, teaching methodology, active learning strategies, and many others.
Open to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from TAMU-CS.
CIRTL Online Course & Local Learning Community: a 7-week asynchronous online course with complimentary local learning community. CIRTL@Texas A&M facilitates at least one local learning community (LLC) in conjunction with the online course. Each week participants will review the online materials and videos before coming together for face-to-face (in-person or virtual) discussion on that week's topic.
- Summer and Fall semesters: An Introduction to Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching
- Spring semester: Advancing Learning through Evidence-Based Undergraduate Teaching
Graduate Teaching Consultant (GTC) Program: one-year long program that supports the professional development in teaching of graduate students, and includes opportunities that support enhanced teaching experience, as outlined in the Model of Graduate Student Professional Development in Teaching. GTCs are graduate students exhibiting pedagogical skills and knowledge within their disciplines. GTCs, under the supervision of the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), serve as instructional coaches and peer mentors to TAs across campus.
Open to graduate students from TAMU-CS nominated to the program by their department.
Graduate Student Leadership Institute: semesterly opportunity for graduate students to lead/co-lead CIRTL@Texas A&M programming (e.g. TAR - Teaching as Research) and conduct research studies to improve CIRTL@Texas A&M programming
Open to graduate students from TAMU-CS.
Teaching as Research (TAR) Fellowship Program: one-year long cohort program that gives Texas A&M graduate students and postdoctoral scholars the opportunity to conduct an experiment in teaching methods in a real classroom project in collaboration with a faculty mentor in their discipline.
Open to graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars from the Texas A&M University System. NOTE: only full-time graduate students from TAMU-CS are eligible to receive the stipend.