CELT Faculty Fellows Seminar

Applications are now open!

The CELT Teaching Scholars seminar (formerly known as CELT Faculty Fellows) is a semester-long program where you will join a supportive, multi-disciplinary community of peers. Together, you will reflect on and reenergize your teaching as you develop experiential, inclusive, evidence-based, and student-centered teaching practices. This program is open to all Tufts faculty who are teaching, have recently taught, or are preparing to teach a course.

What You’ll Gain:

• A supportive cohort of colleagues across Tufts
• A renewed sense of purpose and identity as a teacher
• Practical, inclusive teaching strategies grounded in the learning sciences
• Tools for experiential learning
• Tools for teaching in the age of AI
• Perspectives from peers, students, and CELT staff through interactive feedback

Program Goals: By the end of the program, participants will

1. Develop a set of inclusive student-centered instructional strategies that can be immediately applied in your teaching
2. Reflect on your identity as a teacher, reconnect with your purpose, and strengthen your sense of connection to your students, your peers, and your teaching practice.
3. Experience a supportive community of practice by collaborating with, and learning from, colleagues across the diversity of teaching contexts at Tufts.

Program Expectations*:

• Engage in 10 seminar-style sessions across the semester (virtual and hybrid)
• Prepare for each session by exploring topical materials such as readings and podcasts
• Present a teaching demonstration to your peers followed by individual written reflection
• Complete and submit a final action plan and reflection

Successful completion of all program components and attendance at all meetings earns you a certificate and small stipend.

The program meets on Friday mornings during Fall 2026. 

Two in person meetings run from 9:30am-12:30pm on the Medford Campus

• September 11th & December 11th 2026

Weekly Zoom meetings will be held throughout the rest of the semester, 9:30-11am

• September 18, 25
• October 2, 23, 30
• November 6*, 13*
• December 4

*Teaching demonstration days in November may be attended in person or online depending on what you feel would be most valuable for your teaching context.

Interested? Apply here by June 1st.