Teaching + Learning Lab
Our Mission
We partner with MIT educators, staff, and administrators to create an educational environment where students are academically challenged, actively engaged, and personally supported.
Working with Your TA
Teaching Assistantships are both an invaluable resource for instructors teaching classes of all sizes and a vital experience for students to hone their teaching and management skills. Since Teaching Assistants (TAs) are at the forefront of class interaction, they often have a significant impact on student learning.
Teaching & Learning with ChatGPT: Opportunity or Quagmire?
The recent launch of generative artificial intelligence models, like ChatGPT, are eliciting an energetic variety of responses from instructors everywhere, ranging from consternation to cautious optimism.
Academic Belonging
In general, classroom practices that help students feel that they are an integral part of the class, that their ideas matter, and that their perspectives are welcomed, create a sense of academic belonging. Often, strategies that create inclusive classrooms and inclusive departmental environments support students’ academic belonging.
Create a Syllabus
A learner-centered syllabus shifts its focus away from only summarizing content-to-be-covered or legalistic descriptions of course policies to providing information that facilitates student learning and makes the design of your subject more transparent.
Making the Most of Your First Day of Class
Taking steps before the semester begins to get to know your students and their learning backgrounds, and taking the time on the first day to introduce your students to your class, are great ways to set you and your students up for a successful semester.
Upcoming Programming
Spotlight
Recent Posts
Teaching & Learning with ChatGPT: Opportunity or Quagmire? Part II
January 20, 2023
Teaching & Learning with ChatGPT: Opportunity or Quagmire? Part I
January 12, 2023
Rigor as Inclusive Practice
January 6, 2023
Leveraging Best Practices to Support Community, Wellbeing & Belonging
December 15, 2022