The UA Teaching Academy will achieve its mission through the following objectives:
- Offer resources to instructors to develop, enhance and disseminate instructional knowledge and skills
- Provide consultation and programming on pedagogical and curricular matters to assist instructors to:
- Recognize and respect learner differences
- Identify and assess desired student learning outcomes
- Develop and implement research-informed instructional strategies that help students actively participate in the learning process, embrace responsibility for their own learning, excel in the learning environment and meet desired learning outcomes
- Create a culture of scholarly teaching to support instructors to:
- Document teaching and learning effectiveness
- Participate in peer reviews of teaching
- Integrate innovative scholarship into teaching and learning