The Center for Teaching and Academic Innovation (CTAI) serves as a central resource for Montclair State University faculty to develop, refine, and innovate their teaching. CTAI offers support through practical guidance, opportunities for peer exchange, and access to pedagogical and technological resources.
Some of CTAI’s resources, services, and programs were previously overseen by the Office for Faculty Excellence. This page consolidates all teaching-related resources and opportunities formerly hosted by the OFE, to help faculty with this organizational transition. To view all CTAI resources, please check their main page >> . Please reach out to CTAI at ctai@montclair.edu or OFE at faculty@montclair.edu with any questions.
Teaching Resources (by Teaching Principle)
The Montclair Teaching Principles were written by the Office for Faculty Excellence Advisory Board in consultation with the University’s Provost, deans, and faculty who provided suggestions and feedback during the drafting process, in college meetings, through surveys, and in University Senate reviews. The Dean’s Council and the Provost approved these Principles in April 2021.
Below you can find teaching resources that will help you implement each principles through your teaching practice.
Principle 1: Clear Course Design. Provide clear expectations and explicit course learning goals to help foster student success. RESOURCES >>
Principle 2: Pedagogical Strategies that Support Learning. Create class and research environments that build community, foster belonging, and promote mentoring. RESOURCES >>
Principle 3: Inclusivity and Diversity. Deliver course content that actively integrates, interrogates, and seriously engages with the diversity of perspectives and experiences that a scholarly, responsible treatment of the subject demands. Use pedagogies of inclusion that enable all students to feel known, seen, and valued to encourage learning and growth. RESOURCES >>
Principle 4: Universal Design for Learning. Design and deliver all course elements for maximum accessibility to give all students equitable opportunities for success. RESOURCES >>
Principle 5: Teaching as Reflective Practice. Reflect on one’s teaching practices and beliefs to maximize self-awareness and continual improvement. RESOURCES >>
Principle 6: Disciplinary Excellence. Create and deliver a coherent course of study with activities and assessment strategies that are consonant with current best thinking in the discipline. RESOURCES >>
Teaching Feedback Services
Faculty Development Programs
Faculty members and departments are invited to join the Multi-Section Course Design program to get support in building student-centered courses and achieving consistency in instructional content, teaching methodologies, and assessment strategies across sections
A year-long program supporting faculty teams redesigning a course.