Overview

The Center for Teaching and Learning is committed to helping new and experienced instructors increase their practical and theoretical knowledge of university teaching. The Center serves faculty and students teaching courses in the College and across the four Divisions.

The Center provides support to the University teaching community primarily through workshops, seminars, and conferences that address a variety of topics, ranging from theories of education to hands-on application of techniques, from basic teaching strategies to the use of new technologies. These programs focus on aligning theory and practice with the roles required of teachers in lecture halls, seminar rooms and labs, across disciplinary and pedagogical settings. The Center also provides a number of resources, including a lending library of educational books, articles, and videotapes, a web site which collects an assortment of useful information (related both to teaching at this University, in particular, and to post-secondary teaching, more generally), and the opportunity to receive feedback on one’s teaching.

Contact Us

The Center for Teaching and Learning
The University of Chicago
5845 South Ellis Avenue
Gates-Blake 123
Chicago IL 60637

Phone: 773-834-4439
Fax: 773-834-0493

email: teaching@college.uchicago.edu

Center Staff

Elizabeth O'Connor Chandler
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

Elizabeth Chandler has been designing teaching programs for over a decade at the University of Chicago. Drawing upon her own experience teaching European cultural history, she has directed the National Institutes on Issues in Teaching and Learning, the Midwest Faculty Seminar, the Chicago Teaching Program and the Summer Seminars.

Mary Ann Winkelmes
Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning

Before coming to Chicago, Mary-Ann served as Associate Director at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University for ten years and Lecturer in the history of Italian Renaissance art and architecture at Harvard University Extension School. She has facilitated pedagogy workshops for faculty at colleges, universities and seminaries in the United States and Europe, and is an educational consultant for the Lilly Endowment. She has published on Benedictine church design and decoration, acoustics and religious architecture, nuns as patrons of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy, and college teaching.

Jeanelle Hayner
Program Coordinator

Jeanelle Hayner joined the Center for Teaching and Learning in the summer of 2007, after graduating from the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

Heather Keenlyside
Research Assistant

Heather Keenleyside joined the Center for Teaching and Learning in the summer of 2005. She is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the University of Chicago. She is responsible for research and communication related to the Midwest Faculty Seminar.

Ronnie Tang
Research Assistant/Web Manager

Ronnie Tang joined the Center for Teaching and Learning in the spring of 2008. He is currently pursuing a B.A. in Economics in the college. Ronnie is responsible for website management and design, online resources research, program research and general communication.

Our Teaching Consultants

Back row, left to right:

• Joao Goncalves, Anthropology
• Rebecca Terry, Geophysical Sciences
• Myles Chilton, History of Culture
• Rebekah Mergenthal, History
• Lisa Andersen, History

Front Row, Left to Right:

• Rebecca Rowe, Evolutionary Biology
• Wing-Sze Leung, Comparative Literature
• Erin Stapleton-Corcoran, Music

Not pictured:

• Brandee Ball, Romance Languages and Literature
• Neely Myers, Human Development