CANCELLED: TA’ing a Community Engaged Learning Course: Exploring Roles, Tension Points and Opportunities for Professional Development

Event Date & Time

Event Description

This event is part of the TA Institute, taking place from January 13-17, 2025

In-person

Eligibility: The TA Institute is open to undergraduate and graduate TAs, and all graduate students who are interested in teaching. This session is not open staff, or faculty.

In this session, we will introduce community engaged learning (CEL) as a growing teaching strategy here at UBC. We discuss what community engaged learning is, its principles, and the role of TAs in relation to instructor(s), student(s) and community partners. We will explore the complexities, richness and challenges of these roles through discussion and activities. We will enhance participants awareness and understanding of the skills that TAs can apply and develop supporting community engaged courses.

Facilitator:

• Kyle Nelson, Community Engaged Learning Officer at the Centre for Community Engaged Learning

Themes:

If you wish to complete this workshop as part of either of the themes below to receive a Letter of Completion, you must complete a theme completion form by January 22nd, 2025 at 11:59 PM (only complete this form once—make sure to indicate all themes and all sessions that you have completed).

This session falls into the following theme:

• Experiential and Transformative Learning

TA Institute

This year, workshops in the TA institute are organized into 3 themes. If you complete all the workshops in a theme, and submit a theme completion form, you are eligible for a Letter of Completion that you can include in your Teaching Portfolio and CV. The Letter of Completion will include a brief description of the theme(s) that you completed, and how the work you did in the theme(s) support your development as a teacher.