Upcoming Events

Come explore elements of good teaching with the Centre for Teaching & Learning at the Sawchuk Theatre. The CTL has developed an iterative framework that seeks to identify evidence-based, best practices in teaching and learning at UBCO. Included in the framework are opportunities for reflection and growth as well as some identified groups of knowledge, skills, and mindset that contribute to good teaching. This resource and tool is being developed by the CTL to support a variety of academic contexts, with the initial focus on undergraduate course level instruction.

This interactive showcase invites participants into a café‑style experience highlighting Espaces francophones’ multilingual conversation café at UBC Okanagan and the power of low‑barrier, community‑rooted learning spaces.

This interactive workshop is a collaboration between the Inclusive Teaching of Writing (ITOW) project team and STEPS Forward Inclusion Facilitators. The workshop brings together our combined knowledge about faculty and student experiences of accessible teaching and learning across disciplinary contexts. A shared motivation is that inclusion and accessibility are terms often applied to teaching and learning at UBC but what they mean in practice, particularly when teaching to the most marginalized students, can be unclear. Faculty workshop participants will work collaboratively with one another to discern what authentic inclusion is, what it involves, and how to further embed it within their teaching practices.

In this talk, Dr. TC Waisman traces the evolution of her unintended journey into activism and resistance as a late-diagnosed Autistic, Black, Indigenous Oceania, South Asian, non-binary, multiply disabled person. Dr. Waisman shares stories from her Indigenous Fijian culture and from her childhood in the 1970s and her upbringing in Canada, so that others might see their own journeys of resistance through a decolonized, inclusive, and anti-normative lens.