Distressing Material in (and Beyond) the Classroom: Strategies and Resources for Responsible Engagement
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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How do we bring difficult and distressing material into the classroom in a way that is responsible and productive for our students, for ourselves, and for wider communities? How do we responsibly engage our students in community-based learning that involves narratives and representations of violence? What are some of the difficulties that we encounter in (more…)
Supporting Student Wellbeing Through Technology-Supported Peer Assessment
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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Did you know you can support student wellbeing through technology-driven student peer assessment? If you have ever wondered how to incorporate student wellbeing into your courses through the use of technology, we invite you to come to this session to get inspiration, share your ideas, and meet other colleagues who are interested in exploring the (more…)
Implementing Peer Feedback on Collaborative Writing Assignment
Series: CTLT Institute
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**Registration is full. Please sign up for the waitlist HERE Many instructors are hesitant to assign writing because they are concerned it will take significant time to grade and provide feedback. In this workshop, we discuss how we integrated peer feedback(15% of the final grade) into a collaborative writing assignment (45% of the final (more…)
Integrating Student Engagement and Our Classroom Teaching: A UN Sustainable Development Framework
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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In the past year, there has been increasing and widespread momentum at UBC around the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), to foster change and engage the community on common global issues. Understanding, acknowledgement and integration of the framework in our learning and teaching objectives will further support our students toward actualization of the goals. (more…)
How to Facilitate Structured Engagement to Unleash Everyone
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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Often in PowerPoint driven meetings, lessons, lectures and gatherings, there comes a point when eyes glaze over, heads turn down to phones/laptops, and disengagement starts to creep in. Have you ever experienced that, or been one of those attendees bored to tears by constant sitting and passive listening? In this workshop we’ll explore the amazing (more…)
Community Engaged Learning: Assessing Student Learning In our Classes
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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In this workshop, we will introduce tools and supports available to assess student learning outcomes in community engaged learning (CEL) courses. The tools have been developed as part of the Centre for Community Engaged Learning’s efforts to enhance teaching and learning practices of UBC faculty delivering CEL courses. They have been designed to increase faculty’s (more…)
Survey Design Workshop for Instructors
Series: CTLT Institute
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Evaluating and researching teaching and learning is an important endeavor and choosing the right approach and tools is key to obtaining the evidence needed to assess the outcomes of a project and the impact of our teaching practices. While surveys are one of the most commonly used data collection methods, designing effective surveys that elicit (more…)
Supporting Students to Ethically Work in and With Community: Modules that can be Integrated into Courses and Programs
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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In this workshop, we will introduce a suite of modules delivered by the Centre for Community Engaged Learning that support students to work ethically and effectively in and with community. We will explore the menu of options available and the impact they have been having on student learning and experience. We will hear from instructors (more…)
Inclusive Teaching Case Studies: From Course Design to Classroom Practices
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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**Registration is full. Please sign up for the waitlist HERE One of the ways in which instructors can start developing their capacity around equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is to know how questions or concerns around EDI may show up in different teaching and learning settings, and to think through issues in question and (more…)
Growing your Instructor Toolkit: Exploring Strategies for Teaching, Learning & Wellbeing
Series: CTLT Institute TDP for New Faculty
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The Teaching and Wellbeing Community of Practice invites all inspired and needing to be inspired to explore successful and unique educational strategies for cultivating well-being in teaching and learning. Student wellbeing can result in deeper learning and the most promising strategies to promote mental wellbeing include changes in the way students are taught and assessed (more…)