Mission

The Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning (CCTL) promotes teaching excellence through evidenced-based practices and inclusive pedagogy that provide a transformative liberal arts education for Wheaton’s culturally diverse student body. To achieve this mission, the CCTL supports faculty and educators across disciplinary areas who offer academic instruction, and collaborates with faculty and administrators/staff whose roles and expertise are essential to teaching and learning at Wheaton College.

 

Values

Wheaton College has a long history of valuing excellent teaching and sustaining an active teaching and learning culture. The Center for Collaborative Teaching and Learning promotes practices that build on this tradition and advance the college’s mission to provide a transformative liberal arts education. These longstanding practices include:

  • collaboration
  • experiential learning
  • inclusive practices
  • critical reflection
  • curricular innovation