Incorporating Results from SoTL

Event Date & Time

Event Description

This session provides a framework for analyzing and incorporating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) into classroom practices. SoTL involves scholarly inquiry into student learning and making findings public, in order to advance teaching and learning. A large body of literature contains findings from SoTL inquiries across numerous disciplines. In this session, participants will be introduced to SoTL and the body of literature associated with this field of study.

This session consists of three parts:
1) Identifying ways to incorporate SoTL and SoTL results into your teaching
2) Describing strategies for introducing teaching approaches into the classroom
3) Developing strategies to gather feedback from students, to inform your practice.

Examples in this session will be drawn from a variety of disciplines to provoke discussion across a broad range of subject areas and classroom environments.

Facilitators: Lesley Liu & Roselynn Verwoord

Register and attend this workshop in order to help complete the following themes:

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Integrating Teaching & Learning Theory

TA Institute

The TA Institute is open to any Graduate Student who is interested in teaching or TAing, and includes sessions on Teaching and Learning Theory, Scholarship, Classroom Strategies, Campus Climate, and Lesson Design. If you have interest in becoming a better TA, or get a head start preparing for teaching in your career, sign up for one or more of these 2 hour, interactive workshops.

This year, workshops in the TA institute are organized into 5 themes, and if you complete all the workshops in a theme, and do the related pre & post institute online module, you are eligible for a letter of completion you can include in your Teaching Portfolio and C.V., as well as a copy of that letter posted on Linkedin (as a recommendation). These letters will include a brief description of any themes that you completed, and how the work you did in those themes supports your development as a teacher.

The themes are:

• Designing for Effective Teaching 
• Integrating Teaching and Learning Theory 
• Classroom Teaching Approaches
• Campus Climate 
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning