The University of Waterloo's 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.
Last year, CTE provided 2464 consultations to 978 instructors, graduate students, and staff members! See our other "vital statistics" for that year!
Upcoming Workshops & Events
Teaching Dossiers for Graduate Students & Postdocs (ongoing)
Writing a statement of teaching philosophy and teaching dossier are excellent ways to reflect on who you are as an instructor and consider your growth and development with regards to teaching.
Mode: Online (self-paced course)
Effective Lesson Plans (CTE1202)
Want to learn how to plan lessons that actively engage students? Learn a practical and adaptable lesson planning model in the Effective Lesson Plans (CTE1202) workshop. Participants complete the 2-3 hour self-paced module and activities online, followed by a 1.5-hour live session.
Teaching Dossiers and Philosophy Statements (CTE9914)
Documenting your teaching in a dossier involves harmonizing claims, narrative descriptions of practice, and evidence. This process can be guided by preparing your own teaching philosophy statement, which is a kind of thesis for the argument you wish to make about yourself, as a teacher.
CTE News
UWTL 2025 Keynote: Dr. Vanessa Andreotti: Navigating Change in Higher Education in Times of Hyper-Complexity
Check out this keynote presentation from the 2025 University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference, in which Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, explores how the stacked challenges facing higher education are not isolated issues, but interconnected symptoms of deeper systemic shifts unsettling the foundations of modern societies. Her thought-provoking presentation highlights some of the bold steps that universities must undertake to adapt to the changing landscape in which higher education exists.
2025 Teaching Awards!
The recipients of the 2025 Distinguished Teacher Awards and the Amit & Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student have been announced....
Christine Eagles, Recipient of the 2025 Certificate in University Teaching Award
We are excited to announce that the 2025 Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) Award has been awarded to Christine Eagles, a PhD student in Pure Mathematics studying model theory.