Events

We will offer reflective frameworks to provide participants with the atmosphere to begin the work of re-imagining the classroom for disabled students. To do this, we will challenge assumptions and norms of a ‘typical’ classroom and, by way of example, identify practical ways to design your classroom with disability accessibility in mind.

This is a UBCO STREAM (Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Event. STREAM is a multi-pronged initiative, aiming to enhance the appreciation of impactful equity-based and historically, persistently, and systemically marginalized (HPSM)-produced scholarly work at UBCO and beyond. STREAM’s overarching philosophy is to demonstrate to students, staff, and faculty that there is much to learn from marginalised voices in scholarly research.

In this hands-on workshop, we bring together faculty and the Career Development Team to explore how career-relevant content can be seamlessly integrated into your existing courses. Through a real case study from a UBCO course, you’ll learn how one professor created a meaningful, career-integrated experience for their students and the impact it had. After the case study, participants will work alongside the Career Development team to collaboratively design a career-integrated learning experience for a real course. You’ll leave with practical tools, a stronger campus partnership and a concrete example you can bring back to your own classroom.

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 session brings together faculty and students from Arts and Education to discuss how we can “cultivate meaningful change” (the CLW theme) by attending to Linguistic Justice in our classrooms. Linguistic Justice responds to linguistic discrimination, taking as its premise that all languages, language varieties, and accents are legitimate and valuable.

The workshop is an opportunity to hear from disabled and neurodiverse students and faculty about their experiences on campus and what they wish to see from allies and fellow peers; learn about disability and its intersections, the legacies of ableism in academic institutions, and UBCO initiatives and resources; and contribute insight to the SAB and DRC for future workshops and initiatives to fill gaps in understanding, education, accessibility, and accommodation.

AI is transforming industry, society, and the workplace. Higher education cannot afford to stand still. Universities now face an unprecedented challenge: How do we stay truly relevant and prepare our students for a fast-moving, AI-empowered world? This panel brings together expert panellists for a candid, practical conversation on exactly how AI is reshaping what we teach and how we teach it.

In this session, you will learn how to use the three main features of the SEI Dashboard to better understand your SEI results, how to use these to reflect on your teaching, and how you can present the information in your dossier.

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.

Digital platforms are ubiquitous with students today, expecting and relying on tools such as hybrid learning models, messaging apps, and games. Social media uses distractions specifically to promote engagement in content, which offers a potential wealth of untapped pedagogy if used appropriately in the classroom. This interactive presentation will describe a pilot lecture using techniques inspired by split-screen content, the impact, and student feedback of this intervention to improve student engagement.