About CTE
The Center for Teaching Excellence aims to provide AUK faculty with continuous support and resources necessary to apply modern curricula to their classrooms and promote a holistic educational culture that allows faculty to utilize technology while harnessing the best methods of teaching to ensure constructive and active learning environments.
Meet the Team
Rita W. El‐Haddad, Ph.D.,
Values
- Offer faculty a variety of educational resources, facilities, and individualized support to develop a diversity of theoretical and experiential educational cultures in the classroom.
- Support faculty in integrating innovative and modern pedagogic strategies in the classrooms to foster teaching excellence and construct active learning environments to promote a holistic educational culture.
- Inspire and enable faculty to improve their teaching styles to promote student learning and attainment of anticipated learning outcomes.
Objectives & Goals
Provide services and programs to assist and support faculty in integrating instructional technologies into their teaching strategies.
Leverage and develop outreach, collaboration, and engagement to promote teaching excellence.
Empower faculty to use evidence-based pedagogical methodologies by supporting their professional development.
Creating a collaborative learning culture for students.
Ensuring the students’ diverse experiences, perspectives, and needs are placed in the center of the AUK pedagogical culture to optimize the student learning experience for retention and success.
Office No: C005
1-802040 or (+965) 2224-8399, ext. 3810
CTE@auk.edu.kw
