Mission Statement
The mission of the William H. Koehler Center for Teaching Excellence is to support teaching and learning at Texas Christian University.  The resources and activities of the Koehler Center are focused both on honoring the present needs of instruction and informing the TCU community of the increasing possibilities brought by changing pedagogical theory, innovative practice, and new technologies.  The staff of the Koehler Center is dedicated to working with individual faculty and groups of faculty to design and implement meaningful learning opportunities and to facilitate ongoing, reflective participation in the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Confidentiality Statement
The Koehler Center maintains the confidentiality of the individual faculty or groups of faculty with whom we work, mindful that our faculty voluntarily engage our services in order to enhance and enrich teaching and learning at TCU.

Sneak Peek: Fall 2008 Teaching & Learning Conversations In addition to a busy summer of training – see our “Workshops/Events” page – the Koehler Center has been busy working on the Fall 2008 Teaching and Learning Conversations.  In September the conversation will be about classroom observations, and one of the faculty sharing information will be a colleague from UT-Austin, Dr. Karron Lewis, who has decades’ worth of experience as a classroom observation consultant at UT.  October’s conversation will be about the rapidly changing world of academic publishing and what that means for faculty scholars.  In November, two UNT professors will join TCU faculty to discuss designing/redesigning courses to improve student learning outcomes and what that entailed in terms of time, rewards, student achievement, etc.