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CTL Mission and Goals

Center for Teaching and Learning

Mission and Goals

Mission Statement
The mission of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is to promote institutional effectiveness through professional development for faculty and staff. The Center strives to enhance student learning by encouraging innovative teaching, promoting instructional excellence, providing an environment for sharing talents throughout the college, and fostering professional growth for all employees.   

Goals
The goals of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College are:

  • to foster collaboration among faculty and staff to share talents and expertise in the areas of teaching, learning, and student success

  • to provide training and support in the development and implementation of teaching methods, instructional technologies, assessment practices, and curricular innovations

  • to maintain a library of teaching resources

  • to share information about professional development opportunities, materials, and grants through email, mail, and website

  • to administer a teaching excellence incentive program for faculty which will award stipends to faculty who develop and implement creative teaching strategies and/or who develop workshops for other faculty to employ such teaching strategies

  • to coordinate new faculty orientation and mentorship

  • to coordinate faculty and staff fall conference

Areas of Focus

  • Colloquium Series will help to foster collaboration among faculty and staff to share talents and expertise.

  • Provide training workshops on topics related to the development and implementation of teaching methods, instructional technologies, assessment practices, and curricular innovations.

  • Maintain a repository of teaching resources including a website to share professional development opportunities.

  • Administer teaching excellence incentive program.

  • Conduct new faculty orientation and set up mentorship for new faculty.

  • Provide enriching workshops for all faculty and staff during fall conference.