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Programs, resources, and services to support UCLA’s academic Leadership.

The UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) elevates our university’s commitment to pedagogical innovation and cutting-edge instructional support through a variety of resources, services, and collaborative engagement opportunities. Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, Erin Sanders O’Leary, meets regularly with Deans, members of the Academic Senate, and other academic leaders to ensure the TLC resources are meeting the needs of our campus instructional community.

We deliver professional programs tailored to our instructional community, from individuals to entire academic departments, that advance innovative teaching approaches and an enduring commitment to student success. Additionally, we collaborate with academic departments on assessing student experiences of teaching to enhance the learning process, as well as help departments navigate training requirements for teaching assistants. Through our longer-term engagements, such as year-long communities of practice and various pilot initiatives, we work with campus partners to champion technology-enhanced, student-centered, and accessible teaching at UCLA

Programs

Dialogue across Difference Faculty Fellows Program
The TLC has partnered with the Dialogue across Difference (DaD) Initiative to support instructors as they equip students with the tools to engage in complex conversations across differences in lived experience, cultural background, and perspective.

Distinguished Teaching Awards
These awards are UCLA’s highest recognition for teaching excellence and honor recipients under three classifications: senate faculty, non-senate faculty, and teaching assistants.

Holistic Evaluation of Teaching Initiative
This initiative is intended to help departments improve the way they evaluate teaching and help faculty implement excellent teaching practices while assisting instructors in showcasing their teaching expertise and new pedagogical approaches. HET is a way to think about and document teaching using self-reflection, student input, and peer review.

Special Initiatives
The Teaching and Learning Center supports various special initiatives and pilot programs advancing educational innovation at UCLA. With ongoing projects enhancing teaching and learning’s connections to Generative AI, digital accessibility, and more, these programs are just a few of the many projects to elevate how we teach on our campus.

TA Training
The TLC helps graduate students and departments navigate TA training requirements set by UCLA’s Graduate Council, which include enrollment in a 495 pedagogy course to satisfy basic pedagogy training and discipline-based training, and completion of Professional Standards and Ethics Training (PSET).

Resources

Educational Innovation Grants
These grants are designed to elevate teaching by equipping instructors of record with resources and support to enhance their teaching practices and advance innovative, engaging, and equitable instructional approaches.

Making Your Course Accessible
The TLC and campus partners are working to enhance our digital accessibility resources for instructors in alignment with UCLA and UC commitments to inclusive excellence.

Preparing to Teach
Preparing to teach resources include the getting started checklist, strategies to use generative AI in the classroom, digital accessibility guidance, Bruin Learn resources, and much more.

Teaching Resource Index
Our new comprehensive index provides a sortable overview of all teaching and learning resources at the TLC based on topic and resource type. Find bulletins, guides, and other resources by topic to help elevate your teaching.

Services

Consultations
The TLC collaborates with instructors to aid in course development, student learning assessment, and classroom technologies to foster an engaging classroom experience. Schedule a meeting with the TLC staff.

Instructional Design
The TLC’s Instructional Designers aid educators in crafting innovative course materials and integrating technology tools to foster an effective learning experience for all students. Learn more about how we can collaborate to meet your instructional goals.

Media Production
Whether recording one lecture or a full course, our Media Production team supports instructors in creating impactful multimedia content that helps students connect to course material.

Senior Survey
The UCLA Senior Survey provides insight into students’ academic and co-curricular experiences. Findings from the Senior Survey are used to improve the UCLA experience for future generations of Bruins.

Student Experiences of Teaching (SET)
Data collected in our Student Experiences of Teaching (SET) surveys can provide helpful information for updating spring courses or developing future classes. The TLC Assessment Guide for Instructors provides suggestions for interpreting the data and encouraging student engagement.