About Us

We serve many populations: graduate students, professional school students, and postdoctoral fellows. With an extensive set of workshops for new teachers, we encourage creativity and promote good teaching practices. Take advantage of classroom observations and one-on-one consultations and share your teaching challenges in a neutral space. Graduate students and postdocs who want to pursue intensive teaching development can enroll in the Certificate in College Teaching Preparation (CCTP), which requires teaching at Yale, participating in workshops, observing others' teaching, and preparing a capstone teaching portfolio. At the heart of our program, we have a group of McDougal Teaching Fellows who run many of our workshops and manage classroom observations. We also serve the teaching needs of individual departments, promote faculty-student mentoring, and respond to emerging developments in research about teaching.