Center for Teaching and Learning

The SCTCC Center for Teaching and Learning supports, promotes, and enhances the growth of best practitioners in education to increase student engagement, learning, and success.

We support a culture of excellence in teaching and learning at SCTCC by fostering engagement, innovation, collaboration, and student success through the application of evidence-informed and inclusive best practices.

The SCTCC CTL will align with the SCTCC Strategic Plan in its focus on equity and inclusion in an effort “to create an inclusive and student-ready learning environment that fosters a sense of belonging and equitable outcomes for all students” (SCTCC Strategic Planning 2026).

Professional Development: Teaching is a learning profession, and the most effective college instructors continuously strive to improve the skills, abilities, and confidence to make evidence- based instructional choices. The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence provides access to high-quality resources and learning opportunities so our faculty can become the best teachers they can be.

Innovation: The Center for Teaching and Learning embraces innovation as an iterative process of continual exploration, inquiry, and sharing in a process that is vital to instructors of all disciplines and experience levels at SCTCC.

Inclusion and Equity: Aligning with SCTCC’s shared beliefs, we believe an antiracist and antidiscrimination ethos is necessary for advancing social justice and equity (Strategic Planning 2026). One of the CTL’s goals is to encourage and inform faculty on best practices for equity within their classrooms.

Engagement: The Center for Teaching and Learning engages faculty by providing resources and opportunities that are relevant, collaborative, and that reflect current, research-informed understanding of teaching and learning.

Student Success: "Education empowers individuals and transforms generations," thus, the CTL at SCTCC works to ensure faculty are best practitioners to engage and promote success for all students (Strategic Planning 2026).