Foundations of Pedagogy: October-November 2024

Registration is at an external URL for this event.

Event Date & Time

  • Session 3
    October 15, 2024
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Session 4
    October 22, 2024
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Session 5
    October 29, 2024
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Session 6
    November 5, 2024
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Session 7
    November 19, 2024
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Session 8
    November 26, 2024
    2:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Event Description

In-person

Click “Register Now” to apply. Your application will be reviewed and if you are selected as a participant you will be contacted by email by September 23, 2024.

Application closes on September 16, 2024. 


At the end of the one-term course, you will be able to use concepts in evidence-based teaching to effectively teach a lesson in an undergraduate classroom, with emphasis on alignment of learning objectives, activities and assessment. UBC graduate students and postdocs from all disciplines are invited to participate

Successful completion involves participation in 7 out of 8 classes including pre-work, teaching one 10 minute mini-lesson and writing a first draft of your teaching portfolio. Upon completion, you will be awarded CIRTL Associate status.

Maximum group size is 24. 


The course will be held on Wednesdays on the following dates:

  • October 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29
  • November 5, 19 & 26 (no class on November 12)

Instructors:

  • Dr. Jared Taylor, Department of Zoology and VP-Academic Office, Manager of the Academic Integrity Program
  • Kelsey Wilson, PhD Candidate, Department of English; Graduate Student ISW Facilitator

Course Schedule

Exemplary course schedule from September 2018. Final schedule subject to changes.

Week 1: Introduction to Teaching

Learning Objectives:

  • Formulate your individual teaching development goals
  • Reflect on your teaching teaching philosophy

Week 2: How People Learn (Theories of Learning)

Learning Objectives:

  • Relate theories of learning to your own experience.
  • Contrast novice and experts approaches to learning
  • Describe how students’ prior knowledge and metacognition influence learning

Pre-Reading:

Week 3: Designing Well Aligned Lessons

Learning Objectives:

  • Formulate a learning objective for your STEM mini lesson
  • Develop well aligned active learning and assessment techniques
  • Give and receive meaningful feedback on any lesson plan

Week 4: Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives:

  • Design realistic, achievable, measurable and student-centered learning objectives
  • Analyze any learning objective with respect to Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Pre-Reading:

Week 5: Active Learning

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe several common STEM active learning strategies
  • Evaluate active learning strategies in light of theories of learning

Pre-Reading:

Week 6: Assessment that Support Student Learning

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe several assessment techniques and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.
  • Evaluate assessment techniques as learning/feedback opportunities

Pre-Reading:

Week 7: Learning Through Diversity

Learning Objectives:

  • Define diversity, equity and inclusion, and their implications for the classroom
  • Implement strategies for creating equitable and inclusive classrooms

Pre-Reading:

Week 8: Teaching Portfolio

Learning Objectives:

  • Refine your statement of teaching philosophy
  • Identify at least one idea for each component of your teaching portfolio
  • Define at least 1 next-step to preparing your teaching portfolio

Pre-Reading:

Instructors:

  • Kabir Bhalla, PhD Candidate in Microbiology & Immunology;  Graduate Student Facilitator
  • Kim Snowden, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Feminist Media Studies and Popular Culture, The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice

 

Venue:  

Venue Website:

Address:
1961 E Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4