by Laura MacKay | May 17, 2019 | news
What innovative initiative would you like to implement in your teaching ? What teaching practice would inspire students and support learning? The Teaching & Learning Innovation Fund supports faculty through a one-section release to develop, disseminate, and...
by Bettina Boyle | May 16, 2019 | events, news, workshops
Curious about place-based education? Want to explore how the notion of place matters to your students, your curriculum and your discipline? “Place-based education (PBE) immerses students in local heritage, cultures, landscapes, opportunities and experiences, using...
by Laura MacKay | Apr 26, 2019 | events, news, workshops
In 2020, our faculty will begin teaching the first cohort of students emerging from B.C. secondary schools with some experience of the new curriculum. This new curriculum has the potential to transform the learning style of our future students. On Monday May 6, during...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | news, stories
Games, Chocolate and Collaboration: A Conversation with Jane Raycraft about collegiality and making learning enjoyable As a teacher, do you ever see students fearfully entering your classroom with pre-conceived notions of distress surrounding your discipline? Have you...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | events, news, stories
A Conversation with Andrea Actis on Risk, Vulnerability & Affect in Teaching & Learning Risk and Sharing Strange Memoirs This semester, Andrea Actis took a risk. She went into her 300-level English class and shared some deeply personal pieces of writing, or in...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 14, 2019 | events, news, stories, workshops
Bloom and Knowledge as Foundational Do you ever feel that the interpretation of Bloom’s taxonomy in the form of a pyramid favours higher order thinking skills like critical thinking or creation of new knowledge over helping students learn and remember facts and...
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