Within
the broad ambition to promote excellence in teaching, the Center has
five major goals:
- to promote a view of teaching that links it to student learning and that defines excellence in teaching in terms of encouraging and facilitating the most ambitious learning;
- to encourage and facilitate a research-base for teaching and learning decisions, while contributing to the ongoing research and theoretical literature on teaching and learning;
- to increase good teaching, making it not only a strong tradition but a universal reality at Montclair State University;
- to make excellent teaching easier, more systematic and less idiosyncratic--recognizing, nevertheless, that the best teaching will always be hard work; and
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to encourage a view of teaching as a serious form of scholarship, an important intellectual endeavor, and to win for teaching the respect and rewards such endeavors deserve.