Designing Safer, More Effective Teamwork Activities in the Classroom
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. Do you use teamwork to make your class more interactive? Teamwork has been shown to be very supportive of student learning and development, however, students share mixed feelings about working in groups. Using the principles of UDL and trauma-aware approaches, (more…)
Interdisciplinary Sustainability Education at UBC
Series: CTLT Institute Online
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Online This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. How are UBC faculty innovating in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education so that students are best prepared to tackle complex sustainability challenges in their careers? Students working in the sustainability field are expected to: Have specific technical knowledge and skillsets Bring (more…)
Supporting Climate Education Through a Novel Framework of Climate Kind Pedagogy
Series: CTLT Institute Online
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Online This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. The climate crisis, the pandemic, and related social inequities indicate the need for education that teaches compassion and care towards the planet. Climate change and the related social impacts have necessitated a re-think of traditional pedagogies. University educators are faced (more…)
Sharing Back Our Knowledge: Development of the Indigenous Learning Pathways Training Program
Series: CTLT Institute Indigenous Initiatives
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Online This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. Launching in Summer 2024, Indigenous Learning Pathways (ILP) is a multi-course online training program led by CTLT Indigenous Initiatives and the Orientations & Onboarding program in Central HR, and involving collaboration and support from numerous staff, faculty, and programs across (more…)
Refining Your Research Question & Exploring SoTL/TAR Methods – June 4, 2024
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TAR Workshops are designed to give interns authentic teaching experiences and to apply their understanding of evidence-based teaching practices in the classroom or in an informal science education or outreach setting. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, together with their teaching partner, identify a challenge to student learning in the classroom, develop new teaching resources or (more…)
CEL at Scale: Developing Community Engaged Learning Beyond the Individual Classroom
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. This panel brings together faculty members from across the university to discuss work they have done to develop Community Engaged Learning (CEL) initiatives at scale. CEL is an increasingly popular and celebrated pedagogy–known for increasing ethical and civic awareness among (more…)
A Tabletop Role-Playing Game for Building Interpersonal Skills: Demonstration and Feedback
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. This session will focus on demonstrating the use of a tabletop role-playing game (RPG) as a training-tool-in-progress to support the development of empathy in student support roles. In the proposed RPG game, participants are invited to take on the role (more…)
Embedding Practical Learning in Curriculum: Experiences in Three Arts Courses
Series: CTLT Institute
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. Practical learning is meant to engage students with real-life examples; stories from alumni, and applications of their discipline across different contexts. As a result, it can help students to further develop the skills and competencies that will follow them throughout (more…)
OER Accessibility Studio – June 4, 2024
Series: Open Education
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Online Are you working on an OER Fund project or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning? Do you have specific questions on how to format your OER to be accessible for all learners? Drop-in to an OER Accessibility studio to chat one on one with specialists about how to (more…)
Disrupting Time and Space: Considerations in Community-Centred Evaluation
Series: CTLT Institute Indigenous Initiatives
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In-person This event is part of the CTLT Spring Institute, taking place from June 3–6, 2024. Join CTLT Indigenous Initiatives team members Paulina Semenec, Educational and Evaluation Consultant, and Samantha Nock, Educational Consultant, Campus and Classroom Climate, in an exploration around the ways in which timelines impact community-centred evaluation processes. Together, we will dream beyond the (more…)