This course is being offered through the CTL, and will be running every Tuesday (starting January 9) from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM in the Winter 2024 Term.
This course is intended for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows across the disciplines who want to develop as skilled, thoughtful, and confident post-secondary teachers. The goal of this course is to challenge and broaden conceptions of learning and approaches to teaching. Sessions will be literature-informed but activity and discussion-based with an expectation of a high degree of collaboration and participation. The course has been organized in such a way as to balance theory and practice and to support both conceptual and skill development.
As part of the development experience you will articulate a teaching philosophy statement to document your stance and aspirations for teaching.
Intended Learning Outcomes
To be successful in this course you must demonstrate a consistent ability to:
- Relate formal and theoretical knowledge of teaching and learning to the post-secondary teaching and learning context
- Adopt and adapt a learning-centred approach to teaching a variety of post-secondary learners
- Engage with and adapt active learning techniques that focus on collaboration
- Select and implement a variety of instructional and assessment practices that are aligned with intentions for students' learning
- Access, summarize and adapt scholarly literature on teaching and learning related to your own discipline to establish your own scholarly approach to teaching