Faculty Instructional Skills Workshop

Workshop Overview

This workshop, which focuses on teaching groups of students, is designed to enhance the teaching effectiveness of both new and experienced educators. In a supportive atmosphere, you will have a chance to try new teaching approaches and to sharpen existing skills. During the workshop, you will design and conduct three “mini-lessons” and receive verbal, written and video feedback from your peers. In addition, you will reflect on your own teaching practices. The success of this program relies on the active participation and collaboration of all participants who, as a team, work together to support each other in enhancing their teaching effectiveness.

Participants will join a 1h Zoom meeting and spend 4 hours of self-paced facilitated asynchronous learning in the two weeks before the full in person ISW days. In addition, participants should allocate about 1-2 hours before the workshop and during the evenings of the workshop to prepare their mini-lessons and for homework. A certificate of completion will be awarded to each participant who participates in aspects of the ISW.

Requirements and Certification

The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally certified program that is offered and recognized around the world. For the international certification to be meaningful, all certifying institutions agree to meet four core requirements:

24 hours of contact/content (includes time spent online and in person)
3 mini-lesson cycles per participants (11-13.5 hours minimum)
Theme sessions on lesson basics, learning theory, and at least one other topic (4 hours minimum, online and in person)
Provide a safe, confidential, peer-led, learning community-based structure

Am I Eligible to Apply?

You are eligible to apply if you either:

Teach an undergraduate or graduate course at UBC
Design or facilitate teaching and learning events that support undergraduate or graduate students at UBC
UBC faculty or postdoctoral fellow (currently not teaching a course)

Registration Process

Please fill out the application form below to participate in an upcoming Faculty ISW.

Please keep in mind that this program is in high demand and we have to prioritize people who are teaching undergraduate or graduate classes at UBC.

We offer a number of Faculty ISW Programs throughout the year. Please see our list of upcoming sessions below.

Register for ALL of the sessions that would possibly fit your schedule. We will contact you within two weeks with an update of your application’s status.

If you have any issues registering, please contact audrey.castillo@ubc.ca. Also, check out UBCO’s CTL ISW offerings.