The CTL provides faculty with the means to innovatively and collaboratively advance the process of education.
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With the opening of the new Center for Teaching and Learning in the year 2000, Mesa Community College reaffirms its commitment to faculty learning and to teaching excellence for the new century. The Center for Teaching and Learning exemplifies our focus on learning. We are a community of learners. We value our entire faculty who seek new and diverse landscapes for teaching and learning.
“I have compared innovative thinking to a voyage, and its territory to a frontier. But paradoxically, it is also a homecoming, a heroic effort, by individuals exiled in space and time, to realize principles of solidarity and permanence.”
Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things
The spirit of new possibilities in teaching and learning lies in opportunities for faculty to innovate and experiment with pedagogies, technologies, and new discoveries in learning and instruction at the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Learning is catalyzed through collective intelligence and collaborative work. The Center for Teaching and Learning encourages collaboration among faculty across and within disciplines toward the ultimate goal of improving student learning.
Through multiple venues for dialogue, the Center fosters powerful conversations about teaching and learning. These dialogues support and engage the college as a community of continuous learners.
A wide range of faculty development activities from orientations and workshops to technology development and curricular reform occur at the Center for Teaching and Learning. Faculty working on innovative projects and their professional development are supported to sustain teaching and learning improvement.
The Center for Teaching and Learning is a comprehensive faculty learning and development environment located in the center of campus. It is connected to the Paul A. Elsner Library & High Technology Complex.
Expanding from a space of 1,800 square feet to more than 7,000 square feet, the new Center provides faculty with:
"Dialogue suggests a stream of meaning flowing among and through us and between us...It's something new...It's something creative...And this shared meaning is the 'glue' or 'cement' that holds people and societies together."
David Bohn, On Dialogue