Series: CTLT Institute
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Pillar: Transformative Learning
Borrow a human and discover fabulous resources at UBC! The Human Library invites you to borrow a Living Book from a curated collection of services at UBC. It’s a candid 20-minute one-on-one conversation that will open your eyes to how you may leverage these resources to enhance student learning and experiences at UBC. This is also a great opportunity to see how you may collaborate in the future!
Libraries – Because Not Everything on the Internet is True
When you think of the library, you probably think of stacks of dusty books with bun balancing bespectacled librarians just waiting to shush you for talking to loud.
Well, I am here to shatter this idea and open your eyes to the world of UBC Library.
You may wonder what the library can do for you that Google cannot well; the library is not just a place to find information. The library offers you research consultation services to help you find the right source for your question, writing services to help perfect you paper, and tools to help you visualize and publish your work. The library offers you access to unique one of kind experiences through our collections and exhibits. The library offers rich creative spaces where you can study, create, and collaborate. The library offers you free access to events and workshops to help you create greater connections to the world of information and to become an active participant in that world yourself.
What can UBC Library do for you? Check out this book and find out!
The Handbook for Integrating Community Engaged Learning
Curious about the benefits for students working with community? Do you wonder how community engagement can connect to your learning outcomes? Do you want to know what programs and support structures exist? Have questions about where to start?
Borrow this book to find out the range of ways the Centre for Community Engaged Learning can support you to:
- Prepare and support students
- Connect with community opportunities
- Deliver assessment tools and through in-class learning supports
- Learn how to leverage our various programs, workshops and resources
You may also discover additional tools, resources and examples of how others on campus are doing this work and provide insight on some easy first steps you may want to take!
Exploring the connections between student learning, wellbeing and success: tools, resources and supports for faculty members
Student wellbeing is instrumental in students’ academic engagement and success (Keyes et al., 2012). A recent review of health promotion practices in higher education suggests that the most effective strategies for enhancing student wellbeing are those that are embedded within learning environments (Fernandez et al., 2015).
What role can you play and where can you find resources and tools to support and enhance student wellbeing?
Patty Hambler, Director, Health Promotion & Education (HPE) within Student Development and Services provides leadership on health promotion strategies and programs for the UBC Vancouver campus. Through innovative and evidence-based practices, HPE supports capacity building to cultivate an environment that allows students to flourish and achieve their full potential as learners.
Check out this book to learn more about how HPE can work with you to:
- Consider the ways in which you might embed wellbeing in learning environments through pedagogy and curriculum (e.g., Teaching Practices and Wellbeing reflection tool and TLEF Project: Increasing student capacity for academic success, deeper learning, and wellbeing)
- Build your department’s capacity to support student wellbeing (e.g., Wellbeing Liaisons Program)
- Provide professional development and learning opportunities for faculty members and TAs
Working with TAs: Supporting TAs to grow as future faculty and establishing a better and more effective working relationship with them.
Whether you have been assigned a TA for the first time or have had many TAs in the past, you may be thinking about ways to provide training for your (new and/or returning) TAs and help them develop teaching skills. Or perhaps you have encountered some challenges in working with your TAs that you’d like to address.
As the TA Development Educational Developer with the Graduate Student and TA Teaching Professional Development team at CTLT, I am involved with various graduate students and TA teaching development projects on UBC campus. I consult with faculty and department representatives (faculty, graduate students and staff) on teaching and learning matters. This includes designing, delivering and evaluating department-specific TA teaching skills development programs. I develop and deliver (customized) capacity-building workshops for department TA training programs (this includes training TA mentors and facilitators), and I facilitate programs and workshops designed to enhance teaching and student learning in higher education.
Borrow this book to explore any question you may have about working with and/or supporting your TAs in various areas including relationship building, skills training, professional development, and mentorship!
Enhancing Student Learning Experience through Equity and Inclusion
Studies show that students’ sense of belonging is closely related to their academic motivation, persistence, and success. Given this, how can we create learning environments where students feel they belong and confident to succeed? What supports are available for people interested in more inclusive teaching practices?
The Equity and Inclusion Office (EIO) works to advance equity and human rights at UBC by promoting diversity and inclusion, eliminating discrimination, and engaging the community in dialogue and action. The EIO is open to all students, faculty and staff. We offer resources regarding university policies and services, provides opportunities for knowledge and skills development, provides consultations on inter-personal conflict and human rights, and support strategic initiatives.
The EIO also operates the Student Diversity Initiative (SDI), which works with UBC partners to build capacity across university systems to create a community where all students are equitably supported to succeed. Two SDI staff are currently embedded in the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology to promote inclusive course design and teaching practices across the campus – and they’re here to answer your questions today!
Borrow the book to chat about supporting and enhancing learning experiences of all students, especially those who are historically, persistently, and systemically marginalized.
What Should I Do With My Life? …and other big questions.
Do you wish you had a better answer when students ask where their major might take them? Do you find it hard to talk about “jobs” and the “changing world of work” since most of your own work has been inside of the academy? Are you curious about how you could embed more practical learning into your course or program, without sacrificing core content?
Students enter UBC with aspirations for what they will do in the world, and believe that a UBC degree will help them get there. They engage extensively in campus life, experiential learning, and intense academic work – all activities that are positively linked to career success. How can you help students make sense of all that they are learning?
Some of the richest – and most challenging – conversations with students are about who and how they want to be, and what they want to do. They look to you: faculty, TAs, staff, and peers to be guides along the way. Still, you may not be convinced you’re the right person. Or that you know enough to be helpful.
This pocket guide will help you identify the tools you already have to help students tackle these big questions and offer practical ideas and resources, when you’re ready to go deeper.
Removing Barriers and Providing Access to Enable Learning and to Foster Success
What are my responsibilities when a student informs me that they have a disability? What is my role in supporting students with disabilities? How do I balance academic accommodations with academic standards?
Janet Mee, Director, Centre for Accessibility provides leadership on issues of accessibility for people with disabilities, working in partnership with Faculties to foster inclusive learning, living and working environments for students, faculty and staff.
Learn how the Centre for Accessibility can collaborate with you to remove barriers for students with disabilities and to facilitate disability-related accommodations for members of the teaching and learning community.
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