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Mission of VCU’s
Center for Teaching Excellence
Since its inception in the Fall of 2000, the Center for Teaching Excellence at VCU continues to promote, enhance, and assess
teaching effectiveness and student learning through faculty development.
The CTE endeavors to realize this mission through
the following:
- Promote a community of teacher-scholars where the theory and
practice of teaching and learning are valued and, shared and sustained
- Promote collegiality through mentoring and sharing expertise
among the faculty that spans all of the University’s Schools
and Colleges
- Support a university climate conducive to open, regular, and
collegial discussion about teaching and learning
- To provide leadership in the discussion of what it means to
work, teach, and learn in a learning-centered institution, with
attention to the varied perspectives of Administration, Faculty
and Students
- To provide leadership in the discussion, development, and implementation
of teaching and learning in an online environment with attention
to the varied perspectives of Administration, Faculty and Students
- Provide resources and consultation that fosters the professional
growth of faculty as teachers (particularly in ways that impact
student learning)
- Encourage strategies that engage students in active learning
such as collaborative activities, group and cooperative learning,
undergraduate research, and problem-based instruction
- Provide both support and guidance for instructors and academic
units to develop, implement, and assess instructional approaches,
methods, and delivery
- Foster innovation and creativity in higher education
- Promote teaching as an important function of a public metropolitan
research university
- Promote the appropriate integration of instructional technology
into the classroom to support effective teaching and enhance student
learning
- Encourage faculty, staff, and teaching assistants to participate
in conversations about teaching, learning, and professional development
within departments, disciplines, and professional conferences
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CTE Newsletter
VCU Teaching is the new online newsletter from the Center for Teaching Excellence. VCU Teaching features articles from our own faculty; conversations on current issues; CTE Workshops past and present, news, events, and more.
Current Newsletter (Spring 2012)
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