Centre for Teaching Excellence

Open Classroom Week – 2 Weeks of Online Class Visit Opportunities
2021-01-25 - 2021-02-05 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
Open Classroom Week – 2 Weeks of Online Class Visit Opportunities
January 25 – February 5, 2021
Kick-off Monday January 25th – 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Wrap-Up Friday February 5th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Looking for inspiration, reflection and dialogue on your remote adapted teaching this spring?
Join us for Open Classroom Weeks!
Open Classroom Weeks is two weeks in which a set of classes will be ‘open’ for you to visit. Visit 1 or all to see what others are doing and what can be learned for your own teaching.
The week will start and close with a live Zoom session to reflect on the week.
Expect to gain new insights and ideas into teaching and learning to add to your (remote adapted) teaching repertoire.
Time commitment: 4-5 hours in total (1 hour pre-meeting, 2-3 hours for classroom visits and 1 hour post-visit reflection meeting)
Sign up now!

Teaching with MS Teams Series
2021-01-25 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver) | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
Teaching with MS Teams Series
PART 4: Building an Engaged Classroom Community
January 25, 2021 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Microsoft Teams provides a digital platform that can be used to host your synchronous class. This hands-on tutorial is a step-by-step guide to using MS Teams’ built-in features to facilitate discussion, collaboration and interaction.
Sign up here!

CTE Book Club via Zoom
2021-01-26 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-02-09 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-02-23 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-03-09 13:00 - 14:30, 2021-03-23 13:00 - 14:30 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
CTE’s Spring 2021 Book Club Selection
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Alfie Kohn and Susan Blum

As a book club participant, you will find the authors of this text offer much to ponder, discuss, and consider.
The book club will meet every second Tuesday starting January 26 from 1 – 2:30 p.m. in Zoom
6 Tuesdays:
January 26, 2021
February 9 & 23, 2021
March 9 & 23, 2021
April 6, 2021
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Must commit to attend all five sessions.
Sign up now!

Liberating Structures Online
2021-01-28 13:00 - 14:20 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
LIBERATING STRUCTURES ONLINE
Jan 28, 2021
Feb 25, 2021
March 25, 2021
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Come practice and experience the power of Liberating Structures in a safe and welcoming peer environment. The practice group meets monthly and all faculty are welcome to drop in!

Please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca for any questions or concerns.

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/liberating-structure-online/

Introduction to Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum
2021-02-02 09:00 - 11:00, 2021-02-09 09:00 - 11:00, 2021-02-23 09:00 - 11:00, 2021-03-02 09:00 - 11:00, 2021-03-09 09:00 - 11:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
INTRODUCTION TO DECOLONIZING AND INDIGENIZING CURRICULUM

Transform your curriculum! The Introduction to Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum course provides the participant with the basic principles required for decolonizing and Indigenizing curriculum. Throughout the course participants will apply their new skills into their curriculum content, the student’s learning experience and the approach to teaching. The synchronous and asynchronous format is offered over five weeks. Commitment to all synchronous sessions and up to 15 hours of asynchronous self-paced work during the workshop is required.

Synchronous Sessions: Tuesdays
9:00 am – 11:00 am
February 2, 2021
February 9, 2021
February 23, 2021
March 2, 2021
March 9, 2021

Sign up now! Introduction to Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum | Centre for Teaching Excellence (capilanou.ca)

First Peoples Principles of Learning
4 R’s Kirkness, V. J. and R. Barnhardt (1991)
Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit Paperback (2008) [ pages 7-11] – You will need to purchase the rest of the book if you would like to read it.
Forts, Curriculum, and Indigenous Métissage: Imagining Decolonization of Aboriginal-Canadian Relations in Educational Contexts
The Truth About Stories, Thomas King Lecture 1
The Truth About Stories – Lecture 2
The Truth About Stories – Lecture 3
The Truth About Stories – Lecture 4
The Truth About Stories – Lecture 5
Peter Cole
Trauma Informed Practice
Trauma Informed Practice in Post Secondary
Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education ( requires purchasing)

Intro to Podcasting
2021-02-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
INTRO TO PODCASTING
February 2, 2021
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm via zoom
Podcasting can be an effective alternative for communicating content to your students. This webinar covers the basic setup, showing how to create an audio file rich with ‘visual’ content that students can listen to while out for a walk, or taking some time away from the screen.

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/podcasting/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

Moving Beyond Multiple Choice - Workshop Series
2021-02-04 11:30 - 12:30 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
MOVING BEYOND MULTIPLE CHOICE – WORKSHOP SERIES
In this workshop series, participants can take all workshops in step or pick and choose in alignment with their interests. Across the series we’ll develop short- and long-term strategies for moving beyond multiple-choice exams to create meaningful assessments.
Participants will:

Articulate reasons for assessment
Align learning outcomes with assessments
Develop higher-order test questions

Design alternative assessment methods
Writing Meaningful Test Questions

January 21, 2021
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Creating Effective Rubrics
February 4, 2021
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Designing Alternative Assessments
February 23, 2021
10:00 am – 11:00 am

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/moving-beyond/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

Creative Ways to Reduce your Marking
2021-02-08 11:30 - 13:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
CREATIVE WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR MARKING
February 8, 2021
11:30 am – 1:00 pm via Zoom
March 4, 2021
9:00 am – 10:30 am via Zoom
Constantly swamped with marking in the Fall and determined to make the Spring semester different?
Suspect that you’re spending more time marking than your students spent on the assignment?
Let’s talk about creative ways to reduce your marking!
In this session, participants will:
• Discover how assessment design can reduce marking
• Encounter tools to reduce marking
• Create a reduced-marking plan

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/creative-ways-reduce-marking/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

Addressing Triggers and Microaggressions in the Learning Environment
2021-02-10 09:00 - 10:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
ADDRESSING TRIGGERS AND MICROAGGRESSIONS IN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Synchronous Sessions: Wednesdays
9:00 am – 11:00am

Part 1 – February 10, 2021
Part 2 – March 10, 2021

Are you interested in learning to identify and create strategies for the prevention of microagressions and triggers in order to create a safe and inclusive learning environment for your students?
This workshop uses a decolonial lens to unpack microagressions and triggers in the post-secondary learning environment. In addition, participants will practice strategies for the prevention of microaggressions and triggers within the learning environment.
Learning Outcomes:
Part 1

Explain the concepts of racial microaggressions and triggers
Analyze forms of racial microaggressions
Reflect on the impact of racial microaggressions
Analyze examples of potential triggers in the learning environment
Reflect on the impact of triggers in the learning environment
Discuss strategies for prevention of microaggressions and triggers within the learning environment

Part 2

Create a plan for Trauma Informed Teaching Practice in the classroom

Develop strategies for prevention of microaggression and triggers within the learning environment
Create culturally safe practices to support holistic wellness of students in the curriculum
Draft a holistic wellness plan for you as a teacher

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca
Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/microaggressions/

Designing and Implementing Rubrics
2021-02-11 10:00 - 11:30 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING RUBRICS
Thursday, February 11, 2021
10:00 am – 11:30 am
Design, or re-design, a rubric and learn how to integrate it into eLearn to streamline your marking this term.
Learning Outcomes:

Recognize the utility of rubrics
Design or re-design a rubric for an assignment
Reflect on rubrics as living documents
Integrate a rubric into eLearn

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/di_rubrics/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

Moving Beyond Multiple Choice - Workshop Series
2021-02-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
MOVING BEYOND MULTIPLE CHOICE – WORKSHOP SERIES
In this workshop series, participants can take all workshops in step or pick and choose in alignment with their interests. Across the series we’ll develop short- and long-term strategies for moving beyond multiple-choice exams to create meaningful assessments.
Participants will:

Articulate reasons for assessment
Align learning outcomes with assessments
Develop higher-order test questions

Design alternative assessment methods
Writing Meaningful Test Questions

Creating Effective Rubrics

Designing Alternative Assessments
February 23, 2021
10:00 am – 11:00 am

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/moving-beyond/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

Making Short Videos with Camtasia
2021-02-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
MAKING SHORT VIDEOS WITH CAMTASIA
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
11:00 am – 12:00 pm via Zoom
Would short instructional videos created by you enhance the student experience in your course? Explore easy video creation and editing tips using Camtasia. Take away 5 simple steps that will impact your video content.

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/making-short-videos-with-camtasia/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

CDC ePortfolio Graduation and Exit Workshop
2021-02-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
CDC ePortfolio Graduation and Exit Workshop
Wednesday February 24, 2021, 1:00-2:00pm.
This is a workshop for students who are graduating from or exiting Capilano U. who wish to update their ePortfolio for their “post” University goals or for purposes of job searching.
For more question, please contact Brian Gantar

Liberating Structures Online
2021-02-25 13:00 - 14:20 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
LIBERATING STRUCTURES ONLINE
Feb 25, 2021
March 25, 2021
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Come practice and experience the power of Liberating Structures in a safe and welcoming peer environment. The practice group meets monthly and all faculty are welcome to drop in!

Please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca for any questions or concerns.

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/liberating-structure-online/

Creative Ways to Reduce your Marking
2021-03-04 09:00 - 10:30 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
CREATIVE WAYS TO REDUCE YOUR MARKING
March 4, 2021
9:00 am – 10:30 am via Zoom
Constantly swamped with marking in the Fall and determined to make the Spring semester different?
Suspect that you’re spending more time marking than your students spent on the assignment?
Let’s talk about creative ways to reduce your marking!
In this session, participants will:
• Discover how assessment design can reduce marking
• Encounter tools to reduce marking
• Create a reduced-marking plan

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/creative-ways-reduce-marking/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

Addressing Triggers and Microaggressions in the Learning Environment
2021-03-10 09:00 - 11:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
ADDRESSING TRIGGERS AND MICROAGGRESSIONS IN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Synchronous Sessions: Wednesdays
9:00 am – 11:00am

Part 1 – February 10, 2021
Part 2 – March 10, 2021

Are you interested in learning to identify and create strategies for the prevention of microagressions and triggers in order to create a safe and inclusive learning environment for your students?
This workshop uses a decolonial lens to unpack microagressions and triggers in the post-secondary learning environment. In addition, participants will practice strategies for the prevention of microaggressions and triggers within the learning environment.
Learning Outcomes:
Part 1

Explain the concepts of racial microaggressions and triggers
Analyze forms of racial microaggressions
Reflect on the impact of racial microaggressions
Analyze examples of potential triggers in the learning environment
Reflect on the impact of triggers in the learning environment
Discuss strategies for prevention of microaggressions and triggers within the learning environment

Part 2

Create a plan for Trauma Informed Teaching Practice in the classroom

Develop strategies for prevention of microaggression and triggers within the learning environment
Create culturally safe practices to support holistic wellness of students in the curriculum
Draft a holistic wellness plan for you as a teacher

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.
Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/microaggressions/

VIRTUAL INFORMATION SESSION: PROBLEM -BASEDLEARNING
2021-03-21 15:00 - 16:00
Virtual Information Session: Problem-Based Learning
This project is a collaboration between the School of STEM, Creative Activity, Research and Scholarship Office and the Centre for Teaching Excellence.
Join us to develop your knowledge and understanding around problem-based learning!
Event Details: Online Via Zoom
Date: March 21, 2021 Time: 3 – 4PM
Meeting ID: 647 4131 1291
Passcode: [REDACTED]
For more information, contact amirhosseinamiraslan@capilanou.ca

Liberating Structures Online
2021-03-25 13:00 - 14:20 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
LIBERATING STRUCTURES ONLINE
March 25, 2021
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Come practice and experience the power of Liberating Structures in a safe and welcoming peer environment. The practice group meets monthly and all faculty are welcome to drop in!

Please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca for any questions or concerns.

Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/liberating-structure-online/

Critical Conversations: Learning to Ungrade
2021-04-06 13:00 - 14:30 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
Join the Ungrading Revolution! Grading is often cited as the most onerous part of education, by teachers and students. But what if you never had to do it again?
Learn how to enhance student autonomy, mastery, and purpose with innovative new ideas, sourced from the book Ungrading by Susan Blum. Come share your grading experiences and learn how you never have to have another “Lost Weekend’.
April 6, 2021
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Here is the link to sign up!
https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/cte-book-club/

Teaching & Learning Symposium 2021
2021-05-04 08:30 - 2021-05-07 15:00
May 4-7, 2021
Join us for Capilano University’s 2021 Teaching & Learning Symposium: Land & Decolonized Place-Based Learning.
Our Symposium is an opportunity to connect and create a space to think, reflect, recognize and support each other after a challenging year.

To apply the principles of decolonizing and indigenizing education we must first experience them. Decolonizing and indigenizing principles have been woven throughout the development and delivery of this year’s symposium. This symposium offers you an opportunity to make meaning in your own teaching practice – an opportunity to ask yourself, how do I apply these ways of teaching and learning to my pedagogy?
Registrations are now open.

Course (Re)Design Workshop
2021-05-18 09:00 - 2021-05-20 14:30 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
COURSE (RE)DESIGN WORKSHOP
May 18 – 20, 2021
9:30 am – 2:30 pm via Zoom
This 3-day workshop is an intensive, hands-on experience, where you will work in a supportive atmosphere, both individually and collaboratively, to create a new course or redesign an existing one that you teach or are planning to teach.
Throughout the workshop, you will increase your understanding of learning-centred course design principles as you apply this to your own course in an iterative and dynamic process.
During the workshop, you will:

Design or re-design a learner-centered course.
Apply principles of alignment to your course.
Determine various learning activities and assessment strategies that best support your course learning outcomes.
Plan strategies for helping students thrive, including strategies for inclusion, decolonizing and promoting meaningful interaction, social presence, and equitable learning.
Engage in peer learning as a means of iterating and refining your course design.

The workshop will be a combination of synchronous sessions, off-line on your own course design and synchronous peer feedback.
The workshop participants MUST be able to attend every day and all sessions.
Sign up now! https://cte.capilanou.ca/services/workshops/course-redesign-workshop/

If you have any questions, please contact us at cte@capilanou.ca.

Using Turnitin in Your Course
2021-09-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC, V7J 3H5, Canada
The Turnitin Implementation Workshop will focus on the eLearn settings for using Turnitin, the PeerMark feature available in Turnitin and viewing and interpreting the Turnitin Similarity Score and Similarity Report.
Tuesday 7th September, 11am – 12pm
