“The best educators think of teaching as anything they might do to help and encourage students to learn."
—Ken Bain

Welcome to the Center for Teaching & Learning Enhancement

Lamar University has a strong commitment to student and faculty engagement and teaching and learning excellence. Under the direction of the Provost’s Office, the Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement supports faculty, administrators, graduate students, and staff in their academic pursuits and provides a range of instructional services to assist all members of the LU teaching community. In order to foster and sustain a culture that practices, values, and rewards teaching and learning as vital forms of scholarship at Lamar University, the Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement takes as its mission to:

  • Promote deep understanding of the scholarship of teaching and learning by assisting both individuals and groups of instructors to gather, analyze, and reflect on information about their own teaching and their students' learning.
  • Cultivate dialogue about teaching pedagogies and learning theories through seminars, orientations, workshops, teaching and learning circles, and other programming.
  • Foster the use of research-based best practices, models, and approaches to university teaching and learning -- and facilitate access to resources that support them.

The staff of the Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement is committed to the highest ideals of confidentiality in all matters. To leave a comment or request an appointment, you may call the Center during University business hours or send an .

Current Topics

  • arrow   According to research by Titus and Gremler (2010), "A fundamental goal for every educator should be to grow continually as a teaching professional. Specifically, serious growth requires an educator to engage regularly in an objective self-examination of his or her instructional beliefs and behaviors." Join the journaling program. Next opportunity is October 24 at 2PM. Details here.

  • arrow   Top four emerges for the Faculty Learning Communities program. Sign up now to participate in Academic Year 2011-12.

Contact

P O Box 10302, Beaumont, TX 77710

(409) 880-8426

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