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About the Center for Innovative Teaching

High Point University's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning provides faculty with the support, resources, and services they need to develop and sustain excellence as teachers, scholars, and leaders.

HPU is committed to excellence--for our students and faculty alike. The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) helps High Point faculty reach their highest potential as professional educators. From Ed Talks, wher...

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Matthew Schneider, Director

(336) 841.9073

mschneid@highpoint.edu

Daily from 8:30am — 5:00pm.

Mission

The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) furnishes faculty with the support, services, and resources they need to achieve and sustain excellence as teachers, scholars, and leaders. In partnership with other units across the university, the CITL provides integrated support to faculty across the full range of their responsibilities and throughout their careers. Through its innovative approaches to enhancing and rewarding outstanding teaching, scholarship, and leadership, the CITL helps to realize High Point University’s academic mission of providing an extraordinary education in an inspiring environment with caring people.

Values

In its programs, events, and day-to-day operations, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning is guided by the following values:

Students are more engaged and their learning is deeper, more integrated, and longer-lasting when teachers are reflective, critical practitioners of intentional and clearly understood pedagogical theories and methods.
There is no single effective way to teach: teaching styles and approaches vary according to a faculty member’s experience, personality, and identity.
Teaching and scholarship thrive maximally when these two dimensions of faculty work are mutually supportive.

Functions

The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning has two primary functions:

Faculty development: most CITL events and recurring activities help faculty more effectively reach their pedagogic and professional goals. In support of this function, CITL provides:

Assistance with solving teaching problems;

Workshops on current best pedagogical practices and evidence-based teaching paradigms;

Presentations by master teachers, educational researchers, and guest lecturers;

Individual consultations on teaching problems or classroom management;

Recognition of and support for outstanding faculty teaching through awards and grants;

Assistance with designing and conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL);

Assistance to faculty in improving all aspects of job performance;

Orientation for new faculty on the mission, history, and pedagogic aims of High Point University
Instructional and curricular design: assisting faculty in the design and implementation of educational experiences that maximize student learning. In support of this function, CITL:

Provides training and support in the effective use of instructional technologies;

Assists faculty, departments, programs, and schools with the incorporation of effective online learning experiences into face-to-face models of instruction;

Helps faculty explore new teaching paradigms, such as flipped classrooms and hybrid course delivery;

Assists faculty, departments, programs, and schools in identifying, measuring, and analyzing evidence of student learning;

Serves as an information resource/clearinghouse for best practices in designing pedagogically effective curricula and measuring student learning.

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