Center for Teaching and Learning
Center for Teaching and Learning
Welcome to the Center for Teaching and Learning
The Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) supports the university’s core educational mission. We help students thrive in their studies through academic coaching, peer tutoring, language conversation practice, and specialized support for neurodiversity. We help faculty, lecturers, and TAs design, teach, and improve courses and curricula. We partner with schools, departments, and programs to ensure ongoing, meaningful teaching and learning. The latest evidence about what works in higher education is woven through our programs and services.
Students
CTL offers a range of services for Stanford students to help you become self-directed and resilient learners, no matter where you are in your academic journey. These include academic coaching, tutoring, language practice, neurodiversity-focused programs, and more.
Faculty and Lecturers
CTL is here to support your teaching and your students’ learning. We offer pedagogical consultation, feedback, institutes, workshops, and resources to help you advance student engagement and learning in your classes.
Graduate and Postdoc Teaching
CTL offers support for graduate students and postdocs at every stage of teaching, from getting started as TAs to earning certificates in university teaching to designing your own courses.
Departments & Programs
CTL works closely with academic schools, departments, and programs, partnering on teaching and learning programs and curriculum planning.
Academic Technology
CTL helps instructors, TAs, and departments with the integration of academic technology to improve teaching and learning.
AI Meets Education at Stanford (AIMES)
CTL coordinates this Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education effort to catalyze and support critical engagement with generative AI in Stanford teaching and learning contexts.
News and Announcements
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AIMES co-leads reflect on progress and trends
Sep 21, 2026One year into Stanford’s AI Meets Education initiative—and following its first allocation of seed grants awards—clear themes and strategies are taking shape. -
AI learning opportunities for Stanford students
Sep 21, 2026New courses and ongoing opportunities offer Stanford undergraduates an intriguing variety of ways to explore and learn about AI in their studies and beyond. -
Twelve seed grants awarded to explore AI in education
Aug 6, 2026Twelve seed grants have been awarded to instructors and teams for projects that will help shape the future of AI in education at Stanford.
CTL Resources
Academic Skills
Academic skills resources and coaching to support learners in all stages of their academic journey.
Syllabus Template
A customizable document containing reflection prompts, and links to resources and policies you may find useful as you craft your syllabus.
Teaching Commons
Find resources, solutions, and strategies from across the university to enhance your teaching and learning practice on the Teaching Commons website.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Stanford University sits on the ancestral and unceded land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. This land was, and continues to be, of great importance to the Ohlone people. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to honor and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. You can learn more about the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe here: Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Learn more about Stanford's relationship with native peoples.
Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning
408 Panama Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
email: ctl-stanford@stanford.edu
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