The 2022 CTLT Summer Institute will take place online from August 22-26. These workshops will focus on the fundamentals of teaching and learning for new instructors and teaching assistants. The Summer Institute serves as a forum for new members of the teaching and learning community to collaborate, network and engage in knowledge exchange. Session materials and relevant resources will be curated on the UBC Wiki to support your ongoing learning.
Please see below for a detailed schedule and to register for sessions.
Schedule of Events (PDF)
Learning Objectives to Foster Student Learning
August 22, 2022 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Zoom
In this session, we will explore the multiple benefits of using learning objectives, including the ways they help to foster student learning. We will present a low-fuss approach to writing learning objectives and you will get a chance to practice writing these for your own context. You will also explore learning taxonomies which are useful tools for writing effective objectives.
Facilitators:
- Judy Chan, Faculty Associate/ Faculty Liaison, Land and Food Systems, CTLT
- Ainsley Camps, Educational Developer: Teaching & Learning Professional Development, CTLT
The UBC Early Alert Program: Orientation
August 22, 2022 | 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. | Zoom
Faculty, staff, TAs will learn what the Early Alert program is, how to use the program and how it integrates to support students.
Early Alert helps students who are facing academic or wellness difficulties before these difficulties become overwhelming. Faculty, staff and TAs can easily use the Early Alert system to connect UBC students with the support they need, when they need it. Join this session to learn how to access and use the EA system in the UBC learning environment.
Facilitator:
- Brian Barth, Manager, Student Support Services, UBC
Creating Multiple Choice Questions for Higher Order Learning
August 22, 2022 | 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Zoom
Are you using multiple choice questions to their full capacity?
We all know that multiple choice questions can be a powerful component of your assessment and pedagogical strategies. They can save time and support consistency in marking. They can also be useful for piquing student interest, promoting classroom interaction (both in-person and online!), and assessing prior, formative and even summative learning.
Is there a learning outcome or content that you are struggling to assess and wonder if a multiple choice question might work? Bring that outcome or content and the questions/approaches you have used in the past, and let’s explore if and how a multiple-choice question might work.
Facilitators:
- Carrie Hunter, Curriculum Consultant, CTLT
- Judy Chan, Faculty Associate, Faculty Liaison (Land and Food Systems)
Fostering Meaningful Connection with Indigenous Focused Topics
August 23, 2022 | 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Zoom
Are you interested in or want to grow your interest in Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, but just don’t know where to begin? Join members of CTLT’s Indigenous Initiatives team for an exploratory and experiential session promoting connection with Indigenous-focused topics.
This session is designed to reinvigorate the ways we learn and approach learning about Indigenous knowledges and perspectives, and then to provide an opportunity to dive deeper into our areas of interest. Find out which subject areas draw you in the most and encourage you along your learning journey.
Facilitators:
- Aimee Beauchamp, Educational Consultant, Indigenous Initiatives, CTLT
- Kyle Shaughnessy, Educational Consultant: Staff Training, Indigenous Initiatives & HR Workplace and Engagement
Building Authentic Assessment for Learning
August 23, 2022 | 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Seminar (Room 2.22)
Teaching online during the pandemic forced us to re-examine our assessment practices and re-imagine ways to assess students’ true ability in the real-world environment.
In the past years, faculty members explored many authentic assessment methods to assess students remotely during the pandemic. In this session, we will revisit our existing assessment strategies, review the general principles for assessments, explore some authentic assessment examples used by colleagues across campus, share our own perceived challenges in the ‘new normal’, and learn tips from each other.
Facilitators:
- Hailan Chen, Educational Consultant, Learning Design, CTLT
- Judy Chan, Faculty Associate/ Faculty Liaison, Land and Food Systems, CTLT
How to Help a Student: UBC Student Health & Wellness Services and Supports
August 23, 2022 | 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Seminar (Room 2.22)
The health and wellbeing of our community is everyone’s responsibility, however, we know certain roles at UBC require more direct support of student health and wellbeing. Navigating one’s own health and the health care system can be challenging. This session will review the Green Folder, a tool to support staff, TAs and faculty in helping to notice specific signs that a student might require help, as well as identifying what resources might be most appropriate for referral.
The session will also provide a conversation framework to aid in the facilitation of conversations with students about their health and wellbeing.
Facilitator:
- Amanda Unruh, Health Promotion Specialist, UBC
Connecting Power, Privilege, and Positionality to Teaching and Learning Contexts
August 24, 2022 | 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. | Zoom
This session is designed to help educators start exploring anti-racism in teaching and learning by reflecting on key concepts such as power, privilege, and positionality, and understanding how these concepts manifest in various educational contexts. As participants engage in introspective reflection activities and small group discussions, they will learn about how their own identities impact their roles as educators and the learning environments to which they are connected. Participants can expect to explore and consider how their personal, place-based, and social identities influence their teaching pedagogy and their personal, professional and academic lives.
Facilitators:
- Sue Hampton, Educational Consultant: Facilitation and Process Design, CTLT
- Freda Maideen, Educational Consultation: Anti-Racist Teaching & Facilitation, CTLT
Can I Use This? Working with Open Educational Resources and Exploring Copyright in Teaching and Learning
August 24, 2022 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Zoom
If you are preparing resources for your teaching, from PowerPoint slides to online modules, chances are you’ll want to incorporate readings, images, video clips, problem sets, or other materials from different sources. There are millions of open educational resources (OER), from full courses and textbooks to tests banks and images, that are available for others to freely use. Such openly-licensed resources can impact teaching and learning through contextualization, time savings and lowering student access barriers such as costs.
Facilitators:
- Will Engle, Strategist, Open Education Initiatives, CTLT
- Stephanie Savage, Scholarly Communications and Copyright Services Librarian, Digital Initiatives, IKBLC
Embedding Student Wellbeing into Your Teaching Practice
August 24, 2022 | 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Zoom
Research clearly demonstrates that classroom environment and instructor approaches positively impact student wellbeing, enjoyment and course engagement. Wellbeing is viewed as a basic resource for success. The goal is to augment teaching practices to address wellbeing in some way, so it becomes as basic to teaching as writing learning objectives. The risks are minimal and the rewards are high, for both faculty and students.
The TEACHERS Project was designed to help faculty implement simple wellbeing strategies into classrooms, using principles gleaned form intentional kindness research, inclusion, engagement and diversity integration, a community of practice for teaching wellbeing, and more.
We are excited to share best practices, and our insights and reflections about this work and engage in discussions about what might work best for your students, in your courses, given your teaching style, through this panel presentation and discussion.
Facilitator:
- Sally Stewart, Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, UBCO
Engaging Activities for Learners: Active Learning Techniques in the Classroom
August 24, 2022 | 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Zoom
Active Learning is “anything that involves students in doing things and thinking about the things they are doing” (Bonwell & Eison, 1991, p. 2).
Implementing active learning techniques into your classroom can deliver great results in increasing student engagement and motivation and doing so is involves minimal investment of your time.
Join us for a fun and engaging workshop where you will have the opportunity to:
- Reflect on and discuss how you use active learning techniques in supporting student learning
- Consider impact of active learning techniques on student learning and experiences in diverse contexts
- Discuss key considerations for successfully implementing active learning techniques
Facilitators:
- Judy Chan, Faculty Associate/ Faculty Liaison, Land and Food Systems, CTLT
- Ainsley Camps, Educational Developer, Teaching & Learning, CTLT
Working Effectively with Faculty Members (For Teaching Assistants – TAs)
August 25, 2022 | 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. | Zoom
As a Teaching Assistant, you will be working closely in different roles with an experienced instructor to teach. When this relationship goes well, it can be rewarding, educational and fun. When it does not go well, it can be frustrating and overwhelming.
In this session, we will explore the various needs and expectations (including the TA contract) that structure the TA-Instructor relationship, develop effective communication strategies, including feedback and building professional interpersonal skills, all with the aim of helping you build a harmonious and rewarding professional relationship with the instructors you work with.
Facilitator:
- Shaya Golparian, Educational Developer: TA Development Programs, CTLT
Teaching with Teaching Assistants (For Faculty)
August 25, 2022 | 9:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. | Zoom
Teaching Assistants (TA) play a significant role in students’ learning. They are often expected to teach in face-to-face classrooms, facilitate discussions, conduct tutorials and labs in-person and/or online, grade electronically submitted papers, and perform many other duties to assist instructors and inspire students. As instructors, we need to provide support and guidance so that TAs can perform their best.
In this session, we will explore what instructors and students expect from their TAs, key elements of the TA contract, and how we can enhance the teaching and learning experiences of our TAs.
Facilitator:
- Judy Chan, Faculty Associate/ Faculty Liaison, Land and Food Systems, CTLT
Introduction to Teaching Online
August 25, 2022 | 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Zoom
Are you new to teaching online? Getting your course ready before the start of the term can seem like a daunting task. To ensure your students achieve academic success, some of the things you’ll need to be able to do are: update your course materials, create a welcoming environment for your students throughout your course, grade assignments and submit grades.
In this session, we will help you develop the pedagogical knowledge and technical skills required to teach your course by introducing evidence-based practices and ‘just-in-time’ checklists from a newly developed self-paced course called “Introduction to Teaching Online”.
Facilitators:
- Marie Krbavac, Educational Consultant: Learning Design, CTLT
- John Cheng, Educational Consultant: Learning Design, CTLT
- Eric Lee, Support Analyst, Course Operations, CTLT
Writing a Mindful, Learner-Centered and Inclusive Syllabus
August 25, 2022 | 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Zoom
Your syllabus is an important document that lets students know about you and your course. Beyond providing standard contact information, learning objectives, course content and a schedule, it also includes how you will promote learning by building a partnership with your students. In this session, we explore the characteristics and benefits of a mindful, learner-centered and inclusive syllabus.
By the end of this workshop, learners will be able to identify elements of an inclusive and learner-centred syllabus, and explain the purpose(s) and benefits of an inclusive and learner-centered syllabus, from both the student and the instructor perspectives.
Facilitators:
- Gail Hammond, Associate Professor of Teaching, Land and Food Systems, UBCV
- Sue Hampton, Educational Consultant: Facilitation and Process Design, CTLT
In-Person Tour of UBC Studios
August 26, 2022 | 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. | UBC Studios – Main Studio – Room 0110
Learn what UBC Studios is all about at our in-person Open House! Our team will introduce our professional services including video, animation, graphic design, and 3D scanning, as well as our Do-It-Yourself support services, including workshops, DIY video and audio studios and the Lightboard studio.
Facilitator:
- Saeed Dyanatkar, Executive Producer, UBC Studios & UBC Emerging Media Lab