Mission, Vision, Core Values, & Goals
MISSION
The Center for Teaching & Learning's mission is to provide support and resources to the MWCC academic community in all areas of teaching, learning, and technology integration. Our primary purpose is to help our faculty members improve student learning by developing teaching strategies to evoke active learning and critical thinking while creating effective ways to integrate technology to enhance the teaching and learning process.
The CTL staff is dedicated to providing the services, resources, and support necessary to assist individuals, departments, and programs to design and implement meaningful learning opportunities and to facilitate ongoing reflective conversations regarding teaching, learning, and the integration of technology. The Center fosters creativity, innovation, collaboration, collegiality, and scholarship through a broad range of programs, services, and resources.
VISION
It is our vision to keep MWCC on the cutting edge of teaching excellence and innovation, both by bringing in the best ideas and strategies for enhancing teaching and learning from the outside and by providing forums for formal and informal exchanges of ideas for MWCC faculty to share their expertise, teaching approaches, best practices, and experiments across the disciplines. To facilitate this endeavor, the center will offer seminars, workshops, one-on-one consultation, classroom observations, orientation sessions, and instructional resources.
CORE VALUES
The staff at the Center is committed to:
- providing research based scholarly support and resources to enrich and improve teaching and learning at MWCC academic community.
- providing programs, activities, and services that address significant issues on teaching and learning.
- assisting faculty in improving students' learning experiences and prepare them to meet lifelong intellectual, ethical, and career challenges.
- stimulating, supporting, and reinforcing innovation in pedagogy that improves the quality of teaching and optimizes student learning.
- encouraging productive collaborative relationships among instructors, departments, and academic staff to meet the educational needs of students.
- supporting collaborations with local colleges, universities, and k-12 schools.
- supporting the college’s mission statement, academic goals, and priorities.
GOALS
The broad goals of the Center are to:
- encourage and provide a forum for formal and informal exchanges of ideas, expertise, reflection, analysis, and best practices about teaching, learning, and technology integration.
- advocate and foster a positive college-wide culture of academic excellence grounded in scholarship, critical inquiry, innovation, and collaboration.
- act as a source of information and research on teaching, learning, and technology integration in higher education.
