Certificates
Center for the Enhancement of learning and teaching
2025-2026 CELT Teaching Certificates
Our teaching certificates meet the following criteria:
- Endorsed by PFW Academic Officer’s Committee; comprised of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and PFW Deans as a component of long-term faculty development in teaching
- Align with the core values of the university’s strategic plan, with the university’s guiding principles of promotion and tenure, and with CELT’s mission to help faculty to demonstrate “...significant and ongoing commitment to advancing student learning and fostering student success.” (SD 14-35, p.2)
If you are interested in a CELT Teaching Certificate, log into Brightspace and fill out the CELT Certificate Brightspace Enrollment Survey, and follow the directions.
Current CELT Teaching Certificates
This self-paced, asynchronous certificate aims to help instructors navigate the opportunities and challenges associated with teaching in an AI-powered Age. Through engaging workshops, participants will identify the potential impacts of AI tools on student learning and assessment design, develop effective prompting strategies for different teaching and learning related tasks, enhance activity and course design to support student learning and assessment through AI tools, identify the potential benefits of AI for instructors’ efficiency, and develop AI usage policy by considering the legal and ethical dimensions of AI in education.
This self-paced, asynchronous certificate helps you build your Brightspace toolbox to support your teaching and learning needs in Brightspace, our campus Learning Management System. Working in an asynchronous Brightspace course, you can complete this certificate for broad insights into Brightspace and gain a strong utility of the most common Brightspace tools, solutions, and recommended practices. You will build and manage your courses in “better and brighter” ways.
Ready to take your Brightspace skills to the next level? This is a self-paced program that walks you through advanced features and how to implement them in your courses. Content will include Optimizing Quizzes, Intelligent Agents, Advanced Gradebook Solutions, Rubrics, Awards & Release Conditions, and Creator+.
This certificate will equip instructors with evidence-based approaches and techniques to systematically measure and promote student learning. A series of interactive and practical workshops will explore various aspects of assessment, from foundational concepts to specific techniques. One required workshop lays the groundwork for a deeper understanding and application of assessment practices. Participants will also choose two additional workshops that aligns directly with their teaching needs, interests, and/or contexts.
Foundations for Effectively Measuring Student Learning (Required)
Monday, September 22
10 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
In this foundational workshop, we will explore an evidence-based process for collecting, synthesizing, and evaluating information to measure student learning. As we apply the 5-step process to our own subjects, we will look for opportunities to enhance student learning, as well as our own satisfaction with the assessment process. By the end of this workshop, we will:
- Recognize the purpose and importance of using a systematic process to measure student learning.
- Examine the alignment between course assignments and desired learning outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to enhance student learning through diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment practices.
The Feedback Literacy certificate empowers higher education faculty to transform their approaches to feedback, blending theoretical insights with practical, hands-on strategies. Participants will engage in dynamic workshops, peer collaborations, constructive dialogue, and reflective practices designed to foster a culture of continuous improvement and effective communication in the classroom. This program equips educators with the skills to deliver actionable feedback that enhances student learning toward long-term life skill development.
Note: You are only required to attend one of the feelings workshops (Feeling Our Feedback or Feeling the Impact) and one of the Feed-forward workshops (Fueling Faculty Success or Tailing Feedback for Maximum Impact).
Higher education thrives on relationships—between faculty, students, and peers. Join us in an engaging and reflective book group as we explore Peter Felten and Leo Lambert’s Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College. Through meaningful discussion, personal reflection, and shared experiences, we’ll uncover practical ways to foster a more connected, inclusive, and student-centered learning environment. Whether you're an instructor, advisor, or administrator, this group offers a space to build relationships while reimagining how we support our students and each other.
CELT’s Graduate Teaching: Pedagogy and Practice certificate is specifically designed to support and develop graduate students with an interest in developing teaching skills. Workshop topics focus on pedagogical development, rapport development, and graduate students' overall well-being. Workshops will blend instruction, self-assessment, and peer-to-peer sharing. Veteran faculty members will facilitate the workshops.
This certificate is designed to help faculty explore, sustain, and reignite their passion for teaching through interactive, workshop-based sessions. Addressing challenges such as burnout, workload, mid-career blues, and difficult interpersonal dynamics. This program fosters a positive, forward-looking approach to rediscovering purpose in academia.
Workshops
- Re-View: Considering Your Academic Identity and Purpose
- Re-Fresh: Preparing your Mind and Schedule for Cognitive Renewal
- Re-Connect: Embracing Collegiality in a Disconnected World
- Re-Discover: Exploring Vitality via Generativity
- Re-Focus: Navigating Institutional Change and Role Negotiation
- Explore and register for upcoming workshops
This certificate provides a series of workshops aimed at empowering educators with effective strategies to create an inclusive and engaging learning environment for PFW students. By completing this certificate, educators will acquire knowledge and skills and consider the impact of implementing student-centered approaches; promoting active engagement in the classroom.
WORKSHOPS
Rewiring Motivation: Teaching Gen Z in the Age of Disconnection
DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, January 29, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Engaging Silent Learners
DATE: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, February 19, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Navigating Power Dynamics in a Student-Instructor Relationship
DATE: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, March 19, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Balancing Academic Rigor with Appropriate Student Support
DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, April 9, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Transforming Classroom Challenges
DATE: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, April 30, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Helpful Hints
How to Enroll in a CELT Teaching Certificate
If you are interested in a CELT Teaching Certificate and would like to enroll, please follow these instructions:
- Log into Brightspace
- Once you are logged in, CLICK THIS LINK. It will take you directly to the CELT Certificate Brightspace Enrollment Survey.
- Then follow the directions to enroll in a CELT certificate.
*NOTE: You may have to wait up to 24 hours for Brightspace to update the system. That said, here is the link for the course: https://purdue.brightspace.com/d2l/home/1415089. Instructions on how to access a specific certificate is on the homepage.
*Enrolling only grants access and in no way creates a requirement or expectation that you will finish. Additionally, if you would like to enroll in the Brightspace Essentials Asynchronous and/or Brightspace Advanced Asynchronous certificates, you will need to contact the instructional designer directly. Directions are below in the certificate description.*
Workshop Alternative Plan Request
Workshop Alternative Plan Request
If you missed one certificate-eligible workshop due to time conflicts or some urgent reasons, please submit a request to make an alternative plan with a CELT consultant. Please note, you may submit one request for each certificate. After receiving your request, a CELT consultant will contact you to discuss the appropriate alternative plan.