Next Course: Winter 2012

This course is intended for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows across the disciplines who want to become skilled, thoughtful, and confident teachers in higher education.  The goal of the course is to foster understanding and reflection about learning approaches and effective teaching in a university setting. 

Overview

This course will help you develop a better understanding of learning and a personal commitment to teaching. Classes will be task-oriented and place major emphasis on collaboration, self-direction, and participation; students will assemble teaching portfolios to record their learning, will try out and demonstrate a range of teaching methods, and will use self- and peer-assessment techniques to monitor their progress.

Course Objectives

This course is intended to:

• Relate formal and theoretical knowledge of teaching and learning to the post-secondary environment
• Emphasize and foster learning in your approach to teaching.
• Engage with active learning techniques focusing on collaboration and sharing.  Experience and try different effective teaching practices.
• Develop and establish your own approach to teaching.
• Develop an approach to teaching in your own discipline.

Time and Location

This term length course is offered in the Winter term only and meets weekly on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. starting on January 8, 2013. All classes will be held in the Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Seminar Room within B176 Mackintosh Corry.

Credit

This is a credit course, offered on a pass-fail basis. Enrolment requires the instructor's permission and the course may not be used to meet program requirements unless explicitly approved by the student's department.

Enrolment is limited to 25 participants on a first-come first-served basis.

Instructors

Andy Leger, Centre for Teaching and Learning (AL7@queensu.ca)

To Register

Interested students must complete an Academic Change Form and take it to the CTL such that the course coordinator can approve admission and sign the form.

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For more information contact:

Email: ctl@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-6428