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What is the Teaching and Learning Communities Program?
Pasadena City College created the TLC Program in 2000 to serve the needs of basic skills math, English, and ESL students and faculty. Since then, the TLC has expanded to include summer bridge/first-year experience programs, career pathways, ESL blocks, study skills and financial aid workshops, faculty development projects, and campus-wide initiatives.
TLC instructors promote active, collaborative learning by developing innovative classroom strategies. Many TLC courses are linked around a theme, and some students stay together with the same instructor for more than one semester. TLC students may work together on a tech project, listen to a guest speaker, form a study group after class, volunteer for community service, or go on a field trip. They also have access to a state of-the-art computer lab, individualized counseling, and peer tutoring.
What is the TLC's Mission?
TLC faculty and staff are committed to helping underprepared, first-generation college students move successfully from basic skills to transfer and career/technical education courses through collaboration and other community-building activities.
The TLC Newsletter
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