Center for Teaching Excellence
The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) provides School of Nursing faculty and colleagues with institutional support to enhance their teaching ability. The CTE was founded on the belief that superior teachers are agents of change—that excellence in teaching results in better student performance, retention, and satisfaction. Originally supported by a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Nursing Innovation Grant number BUF6, the CTE is now maintained by the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and housed on the seventh floor of the School of Nursing.
The Mission of the Center for Teaching Excellence
The Center for Teaching Excellence will promote teaching excellence and support the scholarship of teaching to enhance faculty performance in nursing education. Greater understanding of pedagogic methodology and teaching technology contributes to more efficient learning and reduces both faculty and student attrition.
The Goals of the Center for Teaching Excellence
- Facilitate the use and sharing of traditional and innovative teaching methodologies and technologies to promote more efficient student learning.
- Increase faculty knowledge and skills related to teaching and learning effectiveness and evaluation.
- Encourage collaborative teaching and promote educational research.
- Identify, stimulate and reward excellent and innovative teaching.
Resources
The Center for Teaching Excellence supports academic professionals in their teaching efforts and the increasing need to learn and understand new teaching technologies, applications and electronic instructional design methods. The Center has numerous publications available to loan. The CTE’s lending library is located in room 702 of the School of Nursing. Please feel free to stop by and browse. Categories include:
To borrow a book or journal, please contact the center director.
Center Director
Miguel F. DaCunha, PhD
Professor
Office: SON 792
Phone: 713-500-2046
Fax: 713-500-2073
Email: Miguel.F.daCunha@uth.tmc.edu
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