2025 CTLT Summer Institute

Join us for a day designed to launch your teaching journey at UBC with confidence and connection. Gain insights and hear from UBC President Benoit-Antoine Bacon and Simon Bates, Vice Provost and Associate Vice President, Teaching and Learning. Connect with campus support teams, exchange ideas with peers, and explore innovative teaching strategies. Lunch will be provided.

This interactive session offers strategies and collaborative activities to help you design a strong, intentional first day of class. Through discussion and planning, participants will align early student experiences with course goals, content, and learning activities—setting the tone for a successful term.

This session explores how to design a mindful, inclusive, and learner-centered syllabus that effectively introduces you and your course, sets expectations, and supports student learning. Participants will consider key elements, benefits, and approaches to creating a syllabus that reflects both instructor values and student needs.

This interactive session introduces neurodiversity as an umbrella concept and explores its impact on student learning. Participants will reflect on inclusive teaching practices, consider strategies to reduce access barriers, and identify ways to foster a neurodiversity-affirming classroom environment.

Join CTLT Indigenous Initiatives for a guided exploration of the renewed What I Learned in Class Today project. This session introduces the updated Facilitation Guide and Toolkit, offering strategies to support safer learning environments for Indigenous students. Participants will explore how to apply these resources in their own contexts to engage more meaningfully with Indigenous content in the classroom.

This workshop, co-hosted by CTLT and the Academic Integrity Hub, explores academic integrity in the GenAI era. It covers UBC guidelines, student perspectives, and strategies for maintaining rigor, equity, and clear communication in teaching and assessment. Participants will leave with insights, tools, and resources to support academic integrity in their courses.

This session explores practical strategies for gathering meaningful student feedback during a course—before end-of-term surveys. Presenters will share tools to help you collect targeted input on your teaching approaches, boost student engagement, and support well-being. You’ll leave with ideas to enhance your course design and confidence in using mid-course feedback to inform real-time improvements.

This workshop explores the impact of integrating student perspectives in course design through UBC’s Students as Partners initiative. Participants will learn practical strategies to elevate student engagement, enhance assessment flexibility, improve feedback, and foster inclusive learning environments—offering actionable ways to amplify student voices in your teaching.

This session supports Teaching Assistants in building effective, professional relationships with instructors. It covers expectations, the TA contract, communication strategies, and conflict resolution to help create a positive and rewarding teaching partnership. Participants will learn to clarify roles, develop agreements, and navigate common challenges in Faculty-TA collaborations.

This session explores the vital role of Teaching Assistants in supporting student learning. It covers instructor and student expectations, key elements of the TA contract, and strategies to enhance the teaching and learning experiences of TAs.

This interactive workshop supports instructors in designing assessments that foster learning through feedback and alignment with outcomes. Grounded in backward design, it offers practical strategies, examples, and tools—including guides and templates—to help you plan and implement effective assessments in Canvas, enhancing student learning throughout your course.

This workshop explores tools to boost student engagement using Canvas features, H5P interactive content, and AI-assisted technologies. Participants will learn to integrate interactive elements for formative assessment and timely feedback in both in-person and online courses. The session highlights UBC’s H5P Open Hub, enabling flexible, tech-friendly course design that enhances student learning outcomes.

This session covers core accessibility principles and how thoughtful course design reduces barriers for students with disabilities while benefiting all learners. Participants will explore practical strategies for structuring Canvas courses, writing readable content, and creating accessible multimedia, tables, and assessments.

The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) team at CTLT is excited to welcome you to Building Capacity—Networking and Resource Sharing for IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community, a networking, wellness, and educational space offered to the IBPOC identifying teaching and learning community during the CTLT Summer Institute. This is an intentional space to connect IBPOC faculty, students, and staff across the University, to cultivate kinship, community care, and support. While we recognize the variety of spaces, collectivities and modes of organizing across the IBPOC communities as UBC, this event is designed to cultivate an open space of connection and solidarity-building across affinity groups. Acknowledging that connection is foundational to anti-racist teaching and learning, this session is for new and returning IBPOC educators at UBC to connect and share teaching, learning and wellness resources and ideas in a mutually supportive space. This is also an opportunity for you to meet the A-RTL team, who have spent the summer revitalizing programs, resources, and consultations. We are excited to introduce ourselves and share more about our programming directions, consultation pathways, and priorities for the coming year. We also look forward to hearing your feedback and ideas on how we can best support you and what you think is important surrounding anti-racist teaching and learning professional development at UBC in the upcoming year. This session will have light beverages for you to enjoy! Learning Objectives:  

• Connect and build a network with new and returning IBPOC faculty, lecturers, graduate students, and staff who are interested in anti-racist pedagogies and practices
• Meet the A-RTL team at CTLT, and become familiar with some of our offerings, programming, and consultation services
• Share your ideas and feedback about how the A-RTL team can provide pedagogical and curricular support for IBPOC educators at UBC. Familiarize yourself with campus teaching, learning, and wellness resources, curated for the IBPOC teaching and learning community

There will be some lightly facilitated activities and discussions to facilitate getting to know each other. Facilitators will share some teaching, learning, and wellness resources curated for IBPOC educators at UBC. Light refreshments will be provided! Intended Audience: The session is dedicated to creating educational, networking, resource sharing and wellness opportunities for self-identifying Indigenous, Black and People of Colour (IBPOC). All from the IBPOC teaching and learning community at UBC are welcome, including but not limited to new and returning faculty, sessional and contract instructors, post-doctoral and graduate students, and teaching assistants.