CIRTL certifications available through ASU

Complete teaching and learning certifications recognized by the CIRTL network.

Certifications start at the Associate level, progress to Practitioner and finish at the Scholar level.

Prerequisite

Prior teaching experience is not required but completion of an evidence-based course on college teaching is a prerequisite.  

Approved courses include:

• Free self-paced full courses - An Introduction to Evidence-based Undergraduate STEM Teaching or Advancing Learning through Evidence-based STEM Teaching,  offered by the CIRTL Network.

• Credit-bearing course at ASU or another institution on evidence-based teaching of undergraduate students. See this list of approved ASU courses.

   

• What qualifies a course for the prerequisite?  The course broadly includes these learning goals:  

1. describes and recognizes the value of realistic well-defined, achievable, measurable, and student-centered learning goals; 
2. facilitates several known high-impact, evidence-based effective instructional practices and materials and recognizes the alignment with particular types of learning goals; 
3. assessment techniques are discussed recognizing their alignment with particular types of learning goals; 
4. and the course describes instructional practices for teaching in college setting, including design instruciton, how to tutor, and how to provide feedback, etc.