Advancing the Art and Science of Teaching
The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) provides resources, workshops and one-on-one pedagogical support to Drexel University’s faculty and teaching assistants. We work with instructors across every school, college, and campus at Drexel.
Looking for on-demand resources, tips, and strategies? Check out our pedagogical resources, as well as specific information about teaching at Drexel University.
Faculty, graduate students and staff are invited to register for workshops, book groups and special events.
The Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) offers individual consultations to anyone teaching at Drexel University.
Teaching Tips
Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College (2024), offers an alternative vision of the modern university as a space of creative synergy and social transformation. The volume focuses on the pedagogical work of four celebrated American writers who taught in the tuition-free SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program at CUNY (City University of New York) in the late 1960s and early 70s.
In their 2025 book, The Opposite of Cheating. Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI, authors Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger address the question many academic instructors have been grappling since the fall 2022 release of ChatGPT: how can we create learning environments where students appreciate the importance of academic integrity and resist the temptation of using GenAI to circumvent the hard and messy process of learning?
Drexel University’s imminent move to semesters, with its accompanying project of large-scale course redesign, presents a unique opportunity for re-thinking how our courses respond (or fail to respond) to the existential urgency of climate change.