The Teaching Center
The Teaching Center is located on the second floor of the Gabhart Building above the cafeteria. Please feel free to call us (460-5423) or drop by.
Established in 1994, Belmont’s Teaching Center grew out of the belief that teaching is a craft requiring much effort and reflection. The goals of the center are to:
- Create an atmosphere where teaching is valued
- Promote teaching as a primary form of scholarship
- Encourage, assist and support faculty in their efforts to improve as teachers, to become active learners and to foster active student learning
To work toward these goals, the center sponsors a variety of activities and programs throughout the academic year and during the summer. For example, the center sponsors or supports:
- Luncheon discussion groups
- A newsletter called The Art of Teaching, published approximately four times a year
- A year long orientation for new faculty, including the faculty mentor program for new faculty and a new faculty seminar
- Individual teaching consultations
- Midcourse formative feedback from students
- Teaching time-out grants
- Travel grants to attend conferences relevant to teaching
- The use of instructional technology
- A resource/conference room in the Teaching Center. The room contains books, videos and journals on the scholarship of teaching in higher education. In addition, the Bunch Library maintains a section in the third floor curriculum lab with Teaching Center materials.
- A peer tutor program
- The use of teaching portfolios
- Teaching workshops in August, May and at other times
- Teaching symposium in January
- Faculty retreats
- National faculty teaching and learning award nominations
- Faculty Interest Groups, affectionately known as FIGs.
- Book discussion groups (usually in the summer)
Steve Simpler (SOR)
David Ribar (CVPA)
Gary Garrison (COBA)
Cathy Hinton (CHS)
Joyce Blair Crowell (CAS)
Dan Wujcik (CEMB)
Amy Hodges Hamilton (Ex Officio as Assistant Director of the Teaching Center)
