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Centre for Teaching and Learning
The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) facilitates academic professional development (PD) with emphasis on the quality of the student learning experience and support for those experiences both in and outside the classroom. Our focus is on internal and external PD that leads to improved student learning through improved teaching and learning practices, systems and support.
Georgian Faculty Competency Framework
The Innovative Georgian College Faculty Competency Framework is a system meant to help educators consider, engage in conversation about, and celebrate the many roles we assume and hats we wear in our day-to-day professional lives.
We are designers, researchers, inclusive practitioners, changemakers, digital navigators, collaborators, reflectors, and mentors.
We weave associated competencies into our daily practices and grow from emerging to performing to transforming over time. We are thrilled to connect with you about this model.
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Workshop schedule
View upcoming CTL Workshops for the Summer 2024 semester:
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This schedule of workshops is updated often, so please check back weekly!
Please note the following:
- Registration is not required for drop-in sessions.
- Registration for the newly launched PT/PL Journey (formerly T@G) registration form is currently being done through an MS Forms document. Please contact Faculty Development Team for access to the MS Forms to ensure access and eligibility.
- Registration is required for workshops, communities of practice and other related CTL offerings.
- Future workshop registration links are forthcoming.
Modality/Location: Please note that workshops are being delivered virtually and/or face to face. If a workshop is available face-to-face, its location will be added to the description. Otherwise, it will be available online only.
If you have difficulty registering for a workshop, or have any questions please email CTL@georgiancollege.ca.
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Ongoing series workshops (registration required)
About this workshop
Join CTL’s team of faculty developers on a journey that unlocks the doors of teaching and learning. Through this six-part series, faculty will venture into the exciting worlds of lesson planning, active learning, assessment and evaluation, and personal development.
The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is proud to present a NEW drop-in webinar series, inspired by Dr. Michelle Pacansky-Brock, leader in higher education, shedding light on the value of humanizing in our remote learning environments.
Many representatives from the Georgian community pride themselves on their ability to connect with students, to help students connect with one another, and to help students connect in meaningful ways to content, resources, concepts and information. But what happens when the ability to choose online learning is removed, and both students and faculty are shifted from environments we’ve grown so comfortable with, and into remote teaching and learning? We adapt, we pivot, we shift!
The CTL team have felt so very inspired by the work that has gone into this monumental shift. We have witnessed faculty adapting, growing, shifting and persevering through what may be the most challenging season of our teaching careers.
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As we prepare to jump into the fall term together, we invite you to join us for a series of drop-in webinars (no registration required) promoting, encouraging, discussing and engaging with the idea of humanizing learning. We hope that you’ll find some tools and strategies that will complement the work you’ve completed, and may help to create even more mindfully and carefully crafted spaces and opportunities to translate the connections that we (and our students) value so highly into our remote teaching and learning environments. If you would like to join us, please find more detailed information below.
Please note, you are welcome to attend the series as a whole, or any of the four sessions that align with your interests and schedule.
Session topics
Making connections early (pre/early-course contact strategies)
In this session, we focus on the importance of being present for our students, and inviting them into our shared teaching and learning space early, and with sincerity and kindness. Two strategies for early connection are shared and demonstrated, as well as the value and logistics of implementing strategies like these.
Syllabus and academic integrity
In this session, we consider the traditional approach (e.g. style and tone) to two important aspects of a course that often send messages perceived as negative, administrative or punitive. We will have fun considering ways to rework your syllabus design and academic integrity conversations that engage rather than disengage students.
Creating inclusive spaces
In this session, we focus on choices we can make to establish a tone and climate for inclusion and equity that creates space for all students to feel included, supported, motivated, engaged, important and heard. A focus on communication in remote learning courses helps to provide methods of enacting, following through on, and modeling inclusion and inclusive policies and strategies for learning. Humanizing Remote Teaching and Learning: Connecting students early in the semester
Connecting students early in the semester
In this session, we focus on the importance of creating connection not only between faculty and students but also between students in order to facilitate a sense of community in our online environment. We explore two activities to help students introduce themselves to one another in the first week of class in order to develop relationships and create camaraderie.
Questions?
Please email any member of the Humanizing team (Kelly, Kim or Tracy) with questions.
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