Welcome! The Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning at Missouri State University was established to foster the art of teaching by providing opportunities for teachers to continue to learn about learning. The FCTL is comprised of essential areas that are critical for the development, deployment, and assessment of instructional resources and technology. Divisions within the FCTL include: Assessment, Classroom Instructional Technologies, Instructional Design, and Media and Academic Technology.
Our goal is to see teaching equally valued with research as a professional commitment of faculty and teaching assistants and to provide the training and resources to make excellent teaching possible. Effective teaching encompasses more than just transferring subject matter to a student audience. Excellence in teaching, first of all, gains the students' attention and convinces them of the importance of what is being taught and learned. It goes on to develop powers of analysis, synthesis, judgment, and evaluation, all in a context of considered values. When teaching has truly succeeded, students leave with an ability to learn, question, and commit on their own.
Missouri State University has a statewide mission in public affairs. This mission defines a primary way in which a Missouri State education is different from that of other universities and one way by which we educate our students to imagine the future. The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning has a crucial role in assisting faculty with the integration of public affairs into the curriculum and serving the instructional community by promoting the enhancement of teaching and learning environments for all teaching modalities, improving student learning outcomes by providing guidance and support toward the understanding and implementation of best practices, and providing leadership in the creation and implementation of assessment plans for programs and classrooms, including the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).