Curriculum Commons

The Curriculum Commons provides sessions for faculty members, instructors, administration, and support staff related to advancement of curriculum – especially as part of the Queen’s University Quality Assurance Process (QUQAP) and the Cyclical Program Review (CPR) Self-Study process.

No sessions a currently scheduled for the upcoming semester. Check back soon!

person working at a laptop with graphsArticulating Program-Level and Course-Level Learning Outcomes

Facilitator: Nevena Martinović, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Date and Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2023; 1:00 – 2:30pm
Location: Jeffery Hall, Room 225

What knowledge, skills, and values do students demonstrate as graduates of your program? By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to devise/revise program level learning outcomes to effectively communicate the value of the program to external reviewers, current, and prospective students. Working at the course level? This session will apply similar thinking at the course level.

 

2 women working at a computerPANEL: How is your Program Addressing Goals for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization Now and Into the Future?

Moderator: Nevena Martinović, Centre for Teaching and Learning
Panelists: Vanessa Yzaguirre, Associate Director (Equity Services), Human Rights and Equity Office ; Yasmine Djerbal, Associate Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning; and Yunyi Chen, Educational Developer, Program and Curriculum Globalization, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 14, 2023: 1:00 – 2:30pm
Location: Zoom

Consult with an expert panel on goals for equity, diversity, inclusion, reconciliation, and Indigenization with your faculty, staff, and/or students. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to identify recent, ongoing, and future-planned EDII-focused actions in their Faculties and programs.

4 people working at a dry erase boardAligning Learning Outcomes with Teaching and Learning Activities, and Assessments

Facilitator: Nevena Martinović, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024; 1:30 - 3:00pm
Location: Now on Zoom (previously in Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room E202)

By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to devise strategies for documenting and highlighting the ways in which instructional strategies, student activities, and assessment of learning serve to affirm program goals. Working at the course level? This session will encourage thinking on course design as connected to program outcomes.