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CELT

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

CELT’s mission is to cultivate a culture of reflective teaching practice and continuing growth that results in meaningful student learning. 

To support this mission and the educational mission of the college we:

  • Offer professional development workshops on effective teaching practices;
  • Identify evidence-based teaching practices and advocate for teachers to adopt these practices;
  • Provide one-on-one consultations with faculty to support curricular development and revision;
  • Recognize teaching excellence through awards (President’s and Provost’s Awards for Teaching Excellence) and by inviting excellent teachers to share their strategies and classroom activities;
  • Encourage teaching innovation with Curriculum Innovation Grants.
  • Support faculty who engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through workshops, and one-on-one consultations and by increasing the visibility of their work on campus.

Workshops and Breakouts

Below are the upcoming and most recent workshop schedules and video recordings. For a complete list, visit our Resources page. 

Winter 2026

Winter Breakout workshops:

Spring 2026

Spring 2026 workshop schedule

Spring 2026 Reading Groups:

Events

Subscribe to our workshop calendar to stay up to date on CELT events! See all previous workshops and other past events.

Tea for Teaching

The Tea for Teaching podcast series, hosted by John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare, features informal discussions on innovative and effective teaching and learning practices.  For a complete list of episodes, show notes, and transcripts, visit the Tea for Teaching website.  

You can also:

Tea for Teaching

The Open Classroom Project

The Open Classroom Project provides faculty with an opportunity to share the innovative teaching practices they have adopted with colleagues from across the institution through class observations and reflection. This non-evaluative observation offers faculty an informal setting to discuss and reflect on classroom dynamics and teaching techniques employed in all course modalities. 

Each semester, CELT will solicit volunteers to open their courses to observers. Once the list of open classes is determined, we will recruit share a list of open classes and share a registration form for people to sign up to observe these classes. We encourage observers to meet with the host faculty for both pre- and post-observation discussions.

Contact

[email protected]
315-312-2875 

Location

121 and 123 Penfield Library 
SUNY Oswego 
Oswego, NY 13126