About the Center for Teaching and Learning

Program Goals

The goal of the Whitman College Center for Teaching and Learning is to promote a campus-wide environment that values, respects, and encourages excellent teaching. Our programs are designed to:

Explore how the diversity of student interests, goals, backgrounds and learning styles impacts the classroom at Whitman.

Offer faculty opportunities to reflect upon and critique their pedagogy in light of advances in theories of teaching and learning, as well as advances in classroom/instructional technology.

Provide a forum for faculty to continually learn from each other about the myriad ways of offering an excellent education to students.

Promote sound pedagogical practices of the past, while developing and disseminating new pedagogical resources for the future.

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Steering Committee

Lisa Perfetti, Chair
Juli Dunn
Kurt Hoffman (off fall 2012)
Sarah Hurlburt
Lee Keene
Helen Kim (beginning spring 2013)
Chris Leise
Timothy Parker
David Sprunger
Jenna Terry

Other Information

A story about the Center for Teaching and Learning was featured on the Whitman College home page in November of 2000. Click Here to find out what was said.

Click Here to read the policy for using the Center for Teaching and Learning Conference Room in Penrose Library.

Contacts

For questions about the Center for Teaching and Learning, please contact Lisa R. Perfetti.