Any of these services are offered for professional development only. The Center does not participate in the evaluation of individual faculty members for promotion, tenure, or performance reviews. The T.E.C. is available, however, to help divisions and colleges improve the evaluation of teaching. Although our expertise in the different content domains is obviously limited, we can provide feedback and ideas about general instructional considerations. In any case, our functioning as a sounding board for the instructor's ideas from the point of view of a novice is usually helpful as a corrective measure in the complex planning process.
Good teachers create new ways to engage students in learning.
Others are experiments in curricular organization or in ways to address targeted populations of students better. The T.E.C. is particularly eager to assist with such course design projects that aim at instructional innovation. Every semester, the T.E.C. coordinates a set of six to eight professional development courses that are offered free of charge to ESU faculty and staff members. Most of these courses concern the development of computing skills for the improvement of instructional, administrative, and research functions that course participants perform in their daily activities. It extends over two semesters for a total of two credit hours.