Education (Training)
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External faculty, staff and students
Our office offers various types of training available for Students, Faculty and Staff including. Click on each type of training to be shown a list of offerings.
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AODA Suite - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
NOTE: The mandatory training you are required to complete is dependent on your role in the University. Please see the "Audience" information to see if your role is required to complete the training listed in this category.
This training is mandatory for all staff, faculty and students employed by the university. Modules to meet the training requirements under Ontario’s accessibility laws (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act). Developed in partnership with the Government of Ontario.
Audience: Mandatory for Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Training Suite: AODA - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
This training is mandatory for all staff, faculty and students employed by the university. Modules include: Understanding AODA and the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service, Communicating with Customers with Disabilities and Serving Customers with Disabilities
Audience: Mandatory for Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Training Suite: AODA - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
This training is mandatory for all educators at Queen's. This training centers around the principles of universal design for learning.
Audience: Mandatory for Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Training Suite: AODA - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
NOTE: At Queen's we consider educators to be all individuals who participate in the creation, development or delivery of materials, activities and assessments for learning to Queen's students. We also consider Queen's professional learning instructors and developers who work with and for staff, faculty, and other Queen's personnel to be educators.
This training is mandatory for all staff, faculty and students employed by the university. We’ll show you how the Code applies to people with disabilities and about your organization’s duty to accommodate.
Audience: Mandatory for Staff Grades, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Employment Equity for Faculty
NOTE: If you are a faculty member sitting on a Staff Hiring committee you are not required to take the Staff Hiring course. The employment equity principles are the same for the Faculty and Staff employment equity sessions. However, there are additional material introduced in the staff employment equity sessions and we do encourage members on staff hiring committees to take the Staff Hiring training.
This training is mandatory for faculty members on Appointments and/or RTPC committees as mandated by the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) and Queen’s University at Kingston. This training will familiarize you with the principles, objectives, best practices and institutional expectations with respect to employment equity.
Audience: Mandatory for Faculty members that are serving as the on appointments or RTPC committees.
Length: 3 hours
This training is mandatory for faculty members, who are designated as the Employment Equity Representatives (EE Reps), on Appointments and/ or RTPC committees as mandated by the by the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) and Queen’s University at Kingston. The EE Rep is responsible for ensuring that Committees adhere to obligations and expected practices with respect to equity-related decision making, data collection, and reporting to Equity Services and senior administrators. The EE Rep plays an important role in ensuring fairness as well as identifying and challenging barriers to the recruitment and advancement of equity-seeking group members.
Audience: Mandatory for Faculty members that are serving as the Employment Equity Representative on appointments or RTPC committees.
Length: 3 hours
Employment Equity for Staff
NOTE: If you are a staff member that is to sit on an Appointments/RTPC committee, You are required to take the Employment Equity for Faculty Hires training as it is specific to Article 24.2.1 of the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University Faculty Association and Queen’s University Kingston.
This training is mandatory for staff members on staff hiring committees. In this course you will be introduced to the concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion. You will familiarize participants with the principles, objectives, best practices and institutional expectations with respect to employment equity process.
Audience: Mandatory for any individual that is to serve on a staff hiring committee
Length: 3 hours
This training is mandatory for committee members, who are designated as the Equity Representatives on staff hiring committees. This course will provide you with the tools and resources that you will need to serve as the Employment Equity (EE) Representative on hiring committees. As the EE Rep you will have the responsibility of ensuring the Committee adheres to the rules and expected practices that assure equity, data collection and submitting information to Equity Services. Your goal as the EE Rep is to ensure that barriers that equity seeking groups face are identified and eliminated.
Audience: Mandatory for any individual that is to serve as the Employment Equity Representative on the a hiring committee
Length: 3 hours
Anti-Racism and Inclusion for Senior Leadership
This workshop represents a rare opportunity for senior administrators (grades 10-14) to reflect on key human rights, equity and inclusion concepts as well as the importance of these concepts to university administrative functions. Both parts 1 & 2 of this training are mandatory for senior administrators (grades 10-14).
Audience: Mandatory for Senior Admin - Grade 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
strong>You must complete part 1 to register for part 2. This workshop represents a rare opportunity for senior administrators (grades 10-14) to reflect on key human rights, equity and inclusion concepts as well as the importance of these concepts to university administrative functions. Both parts 1 & 2 of this training are mandatory for senior administrators (grades 10-14).
Audience: Mandatory for Senior Admin - Grade 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion - Staff
This training is mandatory for Staff. Each one of us have a role to play in fostering an inclusive environment of social belonging at Queen’s University. This module will help to increase your familiarity with the University’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and visualize your role in actualizing this commitment.
Audience: Mandatory for Staff (Excluding Staff Grade 10 and above).
Employment Equity for Faculty
NOTE: If you are a faculty member sitting on a Staff Hiring committee you are not required to take the Staff Hiring course. The employment equity principles are the same for the Faculty and Staff employment equity sessions. However, there are additional material introduced in the staff employment equity sessions and we do encourage members on staff hiring committees to take the Staff Hiring training.
This training is mandatory for faculty members on Appointments and/or RTPC committees as mandated by the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) and Queen’s University at Kingston. This training will familiarize you with the principles, objectives, best practices and institutional expectations with respect to employment equity.
Audience: Mandatory for Faculty members that are serving as the on appointments or RTPC committees.
Length: 3 hours
This training is mandatory for faculty members, who are designated as the Employment Equity Representatives (EE Reps), on Appointments and/ or RTPC committees as mandated by the by the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University Faculty Association (QUFA) and Queen’s University at Kingston. The EE Rep is responsible for ensuring that Committees adhere to obligations and expected practices with respect to equity-related decision making, data collection, and reporting to Equity Services and senior administrators. The EE Rep plays an important role in ensuring fairness as well as identifying and challenging barriers to the recruitment and advancement of equity-seeking group members.
Audience: Mandatory for Faculty members that are serving as the Employment Equity Representative on appointments or RTPC committees.
Length: 3 hours
Employment Equity for Staff
NOTE: If you are a staff member that is to sit on an Appointments/RTPC committee, You are required to take the Employment Equity for Faculty Hires training as it is specific to Article 24.2.1 of the Collective Agreement between Queen’s University Faculty Association and Queen’s University Kingston.
This training is mandatory for staff members on staff hiring committees. In this course you will be introduced to the concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion. You will familiarize participants with the principles, objectives, best practices and institutional expectations with respect to employment equity process.
Audience: Mandatory for any individual that is to serve on a staff hiring committee
Length: 3 hours
This training is mandatory for committee members, who are designated as the Equity Representatives on staff hiring committees. This course will provide you with the tools and resources that you will need to serve as the Employment Equity (EE) Representative on hiring committees. As the EE Rep you will have the responsibility of ensuring the Committee adheres to the rules and expected practices that assure equity, data collection and submitting information to Equity Services. Your goal as the EE Rep is to ensure that barriers that equity seeking groups face are identified and eliminated.
Audience: Mandatory for any individual that is to serve as the Employment Equity Representative on the a hiring committee
Length: 3 hours
Anti-Racism and Inclusion for Senior Leadership
This workshop represents a rare opportunity for senior administrators (grades 10-14) to reflect on key human rights, equity and inclusion concepts as well as the importance of these concepts to university administrative functions. Both parts 1 & 2 of this training are mandatory for senior administrators (grades 10-14).
Audience: Mandatory for Senior Admin - Grade 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
You must complete part 1 to register for part 2. This workshop represents a rare opportunity for senior administrators (grades 10-14) to reflect on key human rights, equity and inclusion concepts as well as the importance of these concepts to university administrative functions. Both parts 1 & 2 of this training are mandatory for senior administrators (grades 10-14).
Audience: Mandatory for Senior Admin - Grade 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
Navigating Difficult Conversations
Have you ever been part of a difficult conversation, where you didn’t quite know how to respond? Do you want to practice and refine your skills when navigating a difficult conversation? If you answered, yes, to these questions then this is the workshop for you. In this two hour practical skills based workshop, you will be introduced to the Straight A’s Model for navigating difficult conversations. Attendees will learn about the model and practice using the model with their peers. Workshop participants will gain practical, implementable skills that can be utilized in a variety of settings.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Length: 2 hours
Human Rights
In this workshop key pieces of legislation related to workplace harassment, discrimination and bullying will be discussed. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own workplaces and where instances of harassment, discrimination and/or bullying can manifest. A central component of the learning in this workshop will take place through the discussion of scenarios.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above
Length: Variable
Sexual and Gender Diversity
Positive Space is a sticker program celebrating sexual and gender diversity at Queen’s. Positive Space stickers in work, living, or study areas signal that all are welcome. To be welcoming includes not making assumptions about anyone’s gender or sexual orientation, being aware of intersectionalities with other forms of oppression, and working to overcome both overt and subtle forms of discrimination and harassment. To receive a sticker to post, you must first attend a Positive Space Information Session.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Length: 2 hours
This workshop offers an informal and interactive exploration of gender identity, gender expression, and human rights protections for these characteristics. This is an opportunity to consider how cultural assumptions can marginalize some identities and expressions. Participants will engage with the concepts of gender identity and gender expression through peer-to-peer discussions and scenario work.
Audience: Faculty and Students
Length: Variable
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
In this introductory course participants will be introduced to key concepts in the area of equity, diversity and inclusion.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above
Length: Variable
In this workshop participants, will reflect on key equity, diversity and inclusion concept. In addition, participants will be asked to consider what an inclusive work environment would look like and what steps can be taken to foster an inclusive workplace. As a final culmulative exercise, workshop attendees will work collaboratively to brainstorm goals for the workplace.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above,and Students
Length: Variable
This training was designed in collaboration by the Human Rights and Equity Offices and the Division of Student Affairs as a part of a larger effort to make Queen’s University more inclusive. The1.5 hour training explores basic foundations of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and equips students with leadership strategies and tools to foster inclusive spaces.
Audience: Students, student-staff
Length: 1.5 hours
Unconscious Bias
In this introductory session, participants will explore unconscious bias and in particular how bias can manifest in our professional and personal lives. Questions considered in the session include: How do we recognize and identify bias? And, how do we interrupt and challenge bias in our everyday?
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above,and Students
Length: Variable
Anti-Racism
In this introductory session, the content designed to energize participants towards living anti-racism everyday. Here we engage with what is racism, how oppression and racism are specifically related to exclusion while simultaneously considering the narratives that influence our understanding of oppression/racism.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above,and Students
Length: 1 hour
In this workshop participants, will reflect on key equity, diversity and inclusion concept. In addition, participants will be asked to consider what an inclusive work environment would look like and what steps can be taken to foster an inclusive workplace. As a final exercise, workshop attendees will work collaboratively to brainstorm goals for the workplace.
Audience: Students
Length: 3 hours
Accessibility
Just as with documents, websites, or emails; you want to ensure what you are planning is experienced equally and enjoyed by all. This tutorial will show you many things (many low-cost and no-cost things) you can do to make your event more inclusive.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above,and Students
Length: 1 hour
There are many forms of documents which are used during a learning session. These may include; Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft PowerPoint documents and PDF documents. All three types of documents can be used electronically, either during presentations or by offering students electronic versions of the documents to store and review. They can also be used in print format - as handouts during a session, for example. These documents may also include equations, charts, graphs, infographics, and tables which need to be accessible for all.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above,and Students
Length: 1 hour
Sexual and Gender Violence
This session is designed to give all employees an overview of how to effectively respond to student disclosures of sexual violence. Some policy considerations will be discussed.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above
Length: 1.5 hours
AODA - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
This training is mandatory for all staff, faculty and students employed by the university. Modules to meet the training requirements under Ontario’s accessibility laws (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act). Developed in partnership with the Government of Ontario.
Audience: Mandatory for Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Training Suite: AODA Suite - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
This training is mandatory for all staff, faculty and students employed by the university. Modules include: Understanding AODA and the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service, Communicating with Customers with Disabilities and Serving Customers with Disabilities
Audience: Mandatory for Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Training Suite: AODA - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
This training is mandatory for all educators at Queen's. This training centers around the principles of universal design for learning.
Audience: Mandatory for Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Training Suite: AODA - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
NOTE: At Queen's we consider educators to be all individuals who participate in the creation, development or delivery of materials, activities and assessments for learning to Queen's students. We also consider Queen's professional learning instructors and developers who work with and for staff, faculty, and other Queen's personnel to be educators.
This training is mandatory for all staff, faculty and students employed by the university. We’ll show you how the Code applies to people with disabilities and about your organization’s duty to accommodate.
Audience: Mandatory for Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above, and Students
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Pedagogy and Practice
In this module, you will be presented with self-reflective exercises, informative activities and videos to help you explore and consider how identities, power and privilege intersect with your teaching pedagogy and personal, professional, academic lives.You won’t find prescriptive declarations about ‘good teaching’, a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching or lengthy research reviews. Instead, we encourage you to further explore identities, power and privilege on your own upon completion of the module.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
This module was designed to help you enhance student learning by opening the dialogue about which knowledges are privileged and why. During the module, you will hear from some of our students and colleagues on their perspectives and understandings. The intent of the conversations raised here is to move beyond awareness towards action. You won’t find prescriptive declarations or a checklist on the topic of decolonization. Instead, we encourage you to further explore decolonization on your own upon completion of the module.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
This module was designed to help you enhance student learning by introducing strategies to assist in responding to difficult educational conversations. In this module, you will be presented with proactive and situational strategies for navigating challenging conversations. These moments, which on the surface may appear difficult, present us with an opportunity for rich and deep learning. When proactively planned for or responded to effectively these moments can enhance dialogue and inclusion in our classrooms.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
This module was designed to help you enhance student learning by introducing you to inclusive and responsive teaching practices. In this module you will articulate key concepts and why they matter; evaluate curriculum and teaching practices and finally identify next steps in creating inclusive classroom.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework to advance and optimize teaching and learning for all individuals based on scientific insights into how humans learn. This module is aimed to strengthen your professional skills in making course design and delivery more inclusive in order to increase the quality of student learning.
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
The course you are about to take is intended to work in conversation with other training sessions. This journey involves continual learning and deconstruction; we encourage you to practice self-reflection and critical thinking when encountering concepts that you have not heard before.
Audience: Everyone
This training is mandatory for Staff. Each one of us have a role to play in fostering an inclusive environment of social belonging at Queen’s University. This module will help to increase your familiarity with the University’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and visualize your role in actualizing this commitment.
Audience: Everyone, Mandatory for Staff (Excluding Staff Grades 10 and above).
Human Rights
The Achieving Safety and Respect in the Workplace course was designed by the Human Rights and Equity Office to serve as a primer for staff and faculty on the Human Rights and Occupational Health & Safety obligations at Queen’s University.
Audience: Staff, Faculty, Senior Admin - Grades 10 and above.
An adapted 30-minute interactive eCourse from the Ontario Human Rights Commission that provides the foundation to learn about race, racial discrimination and human rights protections under the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Audience: Everyone
Micro-learning Modules
All micro-learning modules fall under Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
This training will explore unconscious bias during the hiring process. Learners will explore and unpack different forms bias and their potential impact on a hiring process. In addition, this module will provide learners with tips on how to combat unconscious bias.
Audience: Everyone
Staff Team Learning Program - Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
In this program you will explore a wide range of topics related to diversity and inclusion. This blended course has been designed to be interactive and directly applicable to your professional careers. You will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the program.
Audience: Staff
Length: 8 week program with 6 weeks of online learning and two mandatory in-person sessions.
Diversity to Inclusion Certificate Program (D2I)
Building an inclusive environment that promotes diversity and inclusion requires active participation of everyone on campus. This certificate program consists of 8 core face-to-face workshops that seek to engage Queen's staff and faculty in conversation, discovery, and learning about diversity and equity and to provide resources, knowledge, and tools required to make Queen's an inclusive campus.
Please note that you must register in the Certificate program in order to receive a certificate upon completion.
Core Workshops:
This course offering is broken up into two parts. Part one is an introduction to the elements of workplace accommodation. Participants will become familiar with the central principles of accommodation; discrimination in workplace culture, and workplace barriers to the full participation of persons from equity seeking groups. In part two of this workshop participants will explore workplace accommodation at Queen’s University. Participants will gain foundational knowledge related to who is included in the accommodation process, what information is required and the function/role of the Return to Work and Accommodations Department at Queen’s. The final portion of this workshop will draw upon real-life scenarios so that the participants understand the pivotal role they can play in recognizing and implementing the concept of accommodation in their workplace.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 2 hours
The term “human rights” can mean many different things to different people. Often when people think of “human rights”, faraway struggles for freedom from state persecution are the images that come to mind. Yet, human rights are as much an issue for people here as they are for people around the globe. What are our human rights? Where do they come from? How do they relate to our everyday lives and, more specifically, to the Queen’s workplace? Video clips and reality-based scenarios will be used to illustrate important human rights concepts and spark discussion around best practices for resolving complex and sensitive issues.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 6 hours
This workshop will familiarize participants with the purpose and mandate of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), along with how the AODA intersects with other key pieces of legislation. Participants will recognize barriers to access and gain a better understanding of what accessibility means in the Queen’s context and what they can do towards achieving a barrier-free and inclusive workplace. Key principles, concepts, and the positive impact of fostering inclusive and accessible workplaces will be explored through group discussions, exercises, and case studies. In addition, strategies around best practice approaches for creating an accessible workplace for persons with disabilities, as well as methods for measuring the success of accessibility strategies will be shared.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
This workshop is an overview of both the legal obligations of employers with regard to LGBTQ employees and the business case for inclusion of sexual and gender diversity. It will examine the impact in the workplace of “coming out” and of “transitioning,” look at barriers to inclusion, and offer ideas about how the workplace can become more inclusive.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
Equity seeking groups in Canada have long experienced various forms of oppression. Some oppressions, like physical brutality, may be direct and easily observable. Others are less easy to detect but nevertheless have a great impact on peoples’ feelings of dignity, welcome and value and ability to participate in the community. Understanding the interconnectivity of various oppressions and how oppressions function is fundamental to our efforts to challenge social injustice. Each of us has a positive role to play in creating communities and workplaces that are “anti-oppressive” for all people, but particularly those most affected by inequity.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
Like any other workplace in Ontario, Queen’s University has legal obligations to address issues of sexual harassment and violence in the workplace. This important session will provide participants with a clear understanding of the definition of sexual harassment along with examples of how it may occur within a workplace context. Through a stop action role play and case scenarios participants will have the opportunity to: practice first-response skills, learn strategies for making appropriate referrals to people experiencing sexual harassment or violence in the workplace, and learn how to initiate appropriate resolution processes to incidents of sexual violence. This session will be equally valuable for both employees and supervisors given our shared responsibilities to address harassment in the workplace.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
Universities have long been named as places of racial struggle by racialized students, staff, and faculty. However, despite the numerous accounts of incidents of overt and systemic racism expressed by racialized minorities, many Canadian universities have had difficulty accepting and addressing the existence of racism on its campuses. Anti-racism training and education is based on the fact that racism exists, it is pervasive, and is manifested in a variety of forms. This workshop will help us to understand the dynamics of racism in our society, institutions, and daily lives and share approaches for working together to fight racism.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 3 hours
In this one-day workshop, participants will consider the characteristics of an intercultural workplace and some of the knowledge and skills that will help them function more effectively in it. They will be introduced to common metaphors and theoretical dimensions of culture, as well as a theory of how intercultural competence develops. They will be exposed to intercultural strategies, and learn and practice at least one skill that can help make intercultural interactions more successful. Participants will increase their awareness of the characteristics of an intercultural workplace and consider some established definitions of culture. Participants will learn about some of the theoretical dimensions of culture, including those affecting how we communicate, deal with conflict, and make decisions. Finally, the workshop will introduce the theory behind the Intercultural Development Continuum - a theoretical tool that demonstrates how individuals develop intercultural competence.
Audience: Staff, Senior Admin Grades 10 and above
Length: 6 hours
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