The faculty and students are the greatest resource of GCSU, and excellence in teaching and learning is the most significant aspect of GCSU's mission as Georgia's Public Liberal Arts University. The mission of the CETL is to provide opportunities and resources for faculty to enhance their professional lives in areas related to teaching and learning. The Center strives to foster an awareness of the connections between teaching and learning and to support greater respect and rewards for excellence in teaching.

CETL sponsors workshops every month during the academic year, midterm course assessments, book discussions, an electronic discussion forum (teach_talk), and various other programs throughout the year. Click on the links to the left for more information on our various activities or on the web resources link for online materials on various issues related to teaching and learning.  To download our schedule for fall 2008, click here.

Our newsletter features articles on teaching and learning. The 2005 issue is available now and features an introduction to the scholarship of teaching and learning and several examples of SoTL work by GC&SU faculty. 

 

We have compiled some famous quotations about teaching and learning. If you'd like to see the scrolling quotations that appear below in list form, you can access them on our famous quotations page. There, you will find even more inspiring quotations.

 

Be sure to explore our link on the navigation menu to the left to web resources, where you can find an abundance of online materials on assessment, collaborative and active learning, service learning, teaching with technology, teaching journals, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and many other topics of interest.

The scrolling images below are of illustrious historic teachers and educational theorists. If you would like to further explore the lives, works, and methods of these inspiring teachers (and their pupils), go to our famous teachers web page.