CIRTL Program Goals and Levels
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Program Goals
- Offers a range of professional development opportunities to graduate students, faculty, and staff related to teaching, learning and research through CIRTL offerings
- Provides additional programing to supplement CLT professional development
- Supports professional and personal success at Dalhousie and beyond (holistic development)
- Provides additional teaching certification opportunities in addition to those already offered by CLT
- Connection to teaching and learning, research, and academic communities beyond Dalhousie University
- Offers opportunities for the members of the Dalhousie community to engage in educational leadership within and beyond the institution
Program Levels
There are 3 CIRTL levels available to the Dalhousie community. Each level has unique learning goals that build across your CIRTL program.
Associate – Describe and Recognize Value
The goal of the Associate CIRTL level is to learn about, draw upon, and apply evidence-based practices from the higher education literature to your teaching to enhance student learning – including incorporation of learning outcomes, activities and assessment that are well aligned with one another and recognizing the importance of incorporating the needs of diverse learners across various learning environments and disciplines.
Practitioner – Engage and Assess
The goal of the Practitioner CIRTL level is to develop a scholarship of teaching and learning project that identifies and seeks to answer a key question about your teaching practice or your diverse students’ learning, grounded in the literature, and using various approaches for data collection and analysis, resulting in a change to your teaching and/or learning practice.
Scholar – Advance and Disseminate
The goal of the Scholar CIRTL level is to share the findings of a scholarship of teaching and learning project, through presentation or publication beyond Dalhousie University, and to contribute to the community of practice in which your research is situated.
Each CIRTL level requires engagement with and completion of CLT Programming, CIRTL Network Programming, and the documenting of your experience and the impact to your practice through self-reflective writing.