Teaching Overview

Supporting Faculty

Supporting faculty in their career-long growth as teachers is a major part of the Faculty Development Center’s mission. The FDC offers numerous resources to support faculty teaching and learning practices. These include:

campus-wide workshops, faculty learning communities, and online resources supporting teaching, learning, pedagogy, and engagement
individual consultations and assistance on best practices for synchronous, asynchronous, fully online, hybrid, and in-person teaching
workshops conducted for your department
grants to help you pursue excellence in teaching

As part of many of these offerings, faculty earn certificates of acheivement.

Online Resources

The FDC offers support in teaching, learning, pedagogy, and engagement covering the topics listed in the Teaching menu under Teaching accessed at the top of this page. A few highlighted resources are:

Other Highlighted Resources

WAC LIAISONS

Teaching Online

Artificial Intelligence

Engage Your Students

Common Teaching Topics

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

FDC YouTube Channel

The FDC offers overviews on topics aimed at supporting student learning by enhancing faculty development. Current offerings on the FDC YouTube Channel include:

Brain Break Ideas and How To Implement in an Asynchronous Course
Group Work - Everyone Participates
Self Reflection and Anonymous Feedback Surveys in Canvas
Auto-grade Assignments Using Canvas Quizzes
Have Students Generate Test Questions
Using Mentimeter at Cal State Fullerton

Need Help?

Consult the FDC Our Team page to find the right person to support you!

Highlighted FDC Teaching Contacts

Lecturer in Residence

Dr. Michele Barr

Instructional Designer and Website

Kelly Ruppert

Schedule of Workshops

The FDC Calendar is on our home page.