CIRTL@UB awards three successive levels of nationally-recognized certifications to endorse and highlight your achievement to prospective employers. Each of these programs may be tailored to your field of interest, to create an individualized program.
The following steps outline the basic requirements for each certification. Certificate programs are open to all UB graduate students and postdocs, and all requirements can be achieved at no cost.
CIRTL Associates have the knowledge and skills to be effective teachers, where they are able to implement research-based best practices in different learning environments.
The teaching seminars provide valuable knowledge on best practices in teaching and learning.
Learning communities bring together groups of people for shared learning, discovery and generation of knowledge.
Options for learning community participation include university-level learning communities, departmental learning communities, CIRTL Network learning communities and MOOC learning communities.
Documentation verifying your participation in a learning community is required (e.g., certificate of participation, letter verifying participation).
A teaching philosophy statement conveys your particular perspective on teaching and learning, and how it does—or would—play out in the classroom. The CIRTL Network offers teaching philosophy statement workshops throughout the year.
Cornell University's website provides an excellent resource regarding teaching philosophy statements.
The individualized program is for those who wish to tailor the original certificate program to a specific field of study or interest. Individual programs must integrate the three CIRTL core ideas: teaching-as-research, learning communities and learning-through-diversity, and must meet the minimum hours of activity required.
For more information about the individualized program attend a CIRTL@UB Learning Community meeting.
Participation verification for activities may be required. Some example activities include:.
A teaching philosophy statement conveys your particular perspective on teaching and learning, and how it does—or would—play out in the classroom. The CIRTL Network offers teaching philosophy statement workshops throughout the year.
Cornell University's website provides an excellent resource regarding teaching philosophy statements.
