Welcome to the Teaching Excellence Center Welcome to the West Texas A&M University Teaching Excellence Center (TEC). The TEC was established in 2009 as a resource to support teaching and learning across the University campus through workshops, seminars, discussion and review of quality materials. The Center will also provide consulting services and peer observation opportunities for enhancing teaching. Currently, the TEC will provide materials virtually through this website. We hope that the Teaching Excellence Center will provide support and encourage your efforts to support the student centered mission of West Texas A&M University. Mission The mission of the TEC is to promote effective teaching and engaged learning through support of faculty as they strive to provide valuable learning experiences for our students. Our goals include supporting faculty needs through workshops, materials, seminars, small group discussions, and consultations as needed by departments, programs or on an individual basis. Coming Soon Fall Faculty Development-Designing Courses for Significant Learning Please join the TEC for our annual Fall Faculty Development opportunity. This year we welcome Dr. Barbara Millis who will lead faculty through a workshop designed to demonstrate the significance of course design within the array of tasks involved in teaching. Participants will be introduced to the model of Integrated Course Design and work on taking initial steps toward applying the key components. Dr.Millis is currently Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at UT San Antonio. She frequently leads workshops on cooperative learning, classroom assessment, critical thinking and the teaching portfolio. Dr. Millis has also published articles and books on a variety of faculty development topics. She will be an engaging and informative speaker and will provide significant learning for the faculty as we begin a new academic year.
Learning Matters Learning Matters is the TEC newsletter sent out to all faculty three times in each long semester. The newsletter contains teaching tips, highlights services the TEC can provide and ways faculty can engage in development opportunities across the University. Please click on the links below to read back issues of Learning Matters. Learning Matters 2011
| 
