Welcome to the Centre for Teaching Excellence
The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) fosters a distinct university experience for students by cultivating an intentional community of educators and walking alongside them to envision and create high-quality, meaningful, and impactful learning experiences.
We empower faculty, listening to our community as we thoughtfully shift between educator and learner, providing research-informed programming, mentoring, and professional development opportunities.
Here are just a few of the things we can work on together:
- Developing rubrics
- Creating learning activities in and outside of class
- Active learning strategies
- Curricular alignment (assignments, activities and learning outcomes)
- Building classroom community
- Formative feedback and assessment
- Integrating technology into your teaching
We are available for in-person and virtual one-on-one consultations Monday through Friday 8:30 am – 4:00 pm to support you in your teaching, answer questions and explore new ideas for innovative and research-informed approaches to teaching and learning.
CTE Upcoming Events
Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) – Aug 2025 Pre-Meeting
August 18 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 amGenerative AI in Education Workshops Aug 19 Part 1: Teaching Critical Gen AI Literacy to Students
August 19 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pmInstructional Skills Workshop (ISW) – Aug 2025
August 20 - August 22EdTech Drop Ins
August 25 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmNew Faculty Orientation (In-person) by CTE
August 26
Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano, an important leader of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) Nation of the Coast Salish people. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the unceded sovereign Indigenous Nations of Lil’wat, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Shíshálh (Sechelt), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh(Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh).
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