Supporting Student Awareness of Learning: Using Metacognition as a Tool in Teaching
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***Please note this session has been cancelled due to unsafe travel conditions.*** Are your students constantly asking you why they got this mark? In this session we will help you create tools to allow students to become aware of their own progress in learning through metacognition. Together we will explore underlying theory and teaching techniques (more…)
Student Engagement in Large Classrooms
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***Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. We invite Faculty and Staff to sign up for our sessions during CTLT’s Spring, Summer, and Winter Institutes. This session examines the difference between lecturing and actively engaging students in a large classroom setting. We will discuss the challenges of teaching (more…)
Designing High-Impact Learning Experiences
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***Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. We invite Faculty and Staff to sign up for our sessions during CTLT’s Spring, Summer, and Winter Institutes. The experiential learning cycle (Kolb 1984) describes the process through which we learn from our experiences. In our roles as TAs and graduate (more…)
TA’ing a Community Engaged Learning Course: Exploring the Roles, Tension Points and Opportunities for Professional Development
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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/stakeholders. We will explore the complexities, richness and challenges of these roles, and through discussion, activities (more…)
Leading Discussions With Students… When Should I? How Should I?
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***Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. We invite Faculty and Staff to sign up for our sessions during CTLT’s Spring, Summer, and Winter Institutes. As TAs, we want to contribute to, and enhance, active and engaged learning for students. One of the strategies we might consider is (more…)
Power, Consent, and Safety: Preventing and Responding to Sexualized Violence
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January is Sexual Assault Awareness Month at UBC! Presented by UBC’S Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), this workshop will provide information about UBC’s systems for preventing and responding to sexualized violence, explore risk factors and vulnerabilities experienced by TAs, and provide training on responding to disclosures and navigating power dynamics to reduce risk. (more…)
Even in the Sciences? Bringing an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Lens to Multiple Learning Environments as a UBC Teaching Assistant
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***Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. We invite Faculty and Staff to sign up for our sessions during CTLT’s Spring, Summer, and Winter Institutes. Questions of equity, diversity and inclusion often come up in the work of Teaching Assistants regardless of discipline, but there are few opportunities (more…)
Understanding and Supporting Indigenous Students
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Registration is now full. To sign up for the waitlist please click here What would support for Indigenous students look like in departments, faculty and by staff? What are some of the ways in which Indigenous students approach and experience their education processes differently from other student groups? This session invites you to approach (more…)
Introduction to the Tapestry Tool
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Are you looking for ways to improve student engagement and interaction with online course content? This workshop will introduce the Tapestry Tool, being developed here at UBC by Dr. Steven Barnes and his colleagues. We’ll be showcasing examples of how it is already being used in classrooms, and you will get a chance to try (more…)
Instructional Design Community of Practice – January 8, 2020
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The ID CoP is a place where like-minded practitioners can come to connect with other Instructional/Learning/Course Designers at UBC, share ideas about integrating technology into learning environments, discuss hot topics and research, explore different platforms and trade examples such as problem-based learning, active learning, open education, UDL, peer assessments and other learning modalities. Facilitators: Afsaneh (more…)