Welcome to CTE

The Centre for Teaching Excellence collaborates with individuals, academic departments, and academic support units to foster capacity and community around teaching and to promote an institutional culture that values effective teaching and meaningful learning.

“CTE is one of the teaching centres we look to as an outstanding centre that models excellence in educational development.”
— 2017 External Review.

News

Sep. 27, 2022Back to In-Person Learning: Tips for Instructors
After years of remote learning, the transition back to in-person learning can be challenging for some students.
Sep. 8, 2022Launch of Waterloo's Educational Technology Hub
What is happening? The Evolving the EdTech Ecosystem project team is excited to announce the launch of the Educational Technology (EdTech) Hub, a new website that pulls together information on Waterloo’s centrally supported EdTech tools: digital technology tools used to deliver and facilitate learning, learning activities, and aid in the creation and dissemination of content.

Click for more information about the Educational Technology Hub
Aug. 23, 2022CTE Staff Changes
Educational developers

CTE is pleased to announce the hiring of three new Educational Developers in Indigenous Knowledges and Anti-Racist Pedagogies. Details about these new staff members and their respective roles will be forthcoming in September.

Graduate students

Welcome to our new graduate-student staff: TA Workshop Facilitators (TAWFs) Carina Felice (Biology) and Keqi Shu (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering). TAWFs support our graduate student programming by facilitating interdisciplinary and discipline-specific teaching workshops.

We'd like to thank and say goodbye to two TAWFs who have worked at CTE for the past several terms and contributed greatly to the Fundamentals of University Teaching program: Blessing Medon (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Angeline Ram (Geography & Environmental Management).