Dal Events

CLT Virtual Drop-in: Instructor Self-Development

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:00:00 GMT

Thursday, April 3
11 a.m.–1 p.m.
Online via Microsoft Teams

Come to our Instructor Self-Development virtual drop-in session to create a personalized support experience. Your needs and interests guide the direction of the session! Ask a CLT Senior Educational Developer about topics such as: instructor self-care and emotional labour, teaching dossiers, using SLEQ data to enhance your teaching, and debrief on your teaching experiences. Join us online anytime during the two-hour window, and stay for as little or as much time as you would like! Registration is NOT required.

Engaging in Ethical SoTL

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Friday, April 11
10–11:30 a.m.
Killam Library, Room 2622
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Practicing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) by conducting research in our classroom comes with a range of ethical considerations. These include those typical to research with human participants, but some additional and unique considerations apply when our own students are our research participants. Knowing how to appropriately apply an ethical lens to SoTL not only protects the learner, but also works to enhance the quality of your SoTL project. 

Join us for this workshop where we will cover: 

What to expect during the Research Ethics Board (REB) application process, 
Important ethical considerations during the SoTL Lifecycle, and 
Tips to help you with conducting ethical SoTL.

Facilitator

Kate Thompson, Educational Developer (SoTL), Centre for Learning and Teaching, �鶹��ý

Decolonizing Language & Methods in SoTL

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
3–4 p.m.
Hybrid: Microsoft Teams & Killam Library, Room B400
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Post-secondary education has been described as “a central site of ongoing colonialism” (Cote-Meek & Moeke-Pickering, 2020). SoTL is not immune to these colonial influences, as it often continues to perpetuate Eurocentric frameworks, methodologies, and ways of knowing. In this session, participants will be encouraged to critically consider the colonial connotations embedded in much of the language (e.g., expert, principal investigator, sample population) and conventional methods (e.g., interviews, surveys, and focus groups) commonly used in SoTL research. Decolonial research methods including Indigenous storywork, arts-based methods, and co-designed research processes will be discussed as possible alternative ways of doing SoTL research that can aid in creating space for marginalized voices, Indigenous ways of knowing, and community-based insights.

Presenter

Rachelle McKay, Educational Developer – Indigenous Knowledges & Ways of Knowing

Intended Audience

Faculty
Staff
Graduate Students
Teaching Assistants
Open to all

Resilient Classroom Series: Gen Z in the Classroom

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
10–11 a.m.
Killam Library, B400 (basement)*

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“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” – John Dewey, American education reformer

Have you recently found yourself saying “Back in my day, students used to be like…” or “I just don’t understand students anymore!”? Generation Z is the largest cohort demographic on university campuses today. More than any other generation, this group of students has faced lightning-speed changes in society and technology, and have been heavily “shaped by the advancement of technology, issues of violence, a volatile economy, and social justice movements” (Seemiller & Grace, 2017). As a part of the Resilient Classroom Series, this session will help you adapt your teaching to better align with Gen Z’s unique motivations, goals, skillsets, and social concerns. In this in-person session, you will learn:

Common characteristics and learning preferences of Gen Z students.
Strategies to adapt your course design and assessments to better support and teach Gen Z students.

To help you take what you learn from this session to your classroom, we will collectively brainstorm strategies to use in the Gen Z classroom. In addition, you will develop a preliminary plan for how you can adapt one student assessment or course design aspect to better suit your Gen Z students.

Presenter

Daniella Sieukaran, Senior Educational Developer (Curriculum)