The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning April Workshops
Check out the variety of workshops scheduled for April, offered by The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning!
Pedagogies of Care: Bringing it All Together – Sharing Our Stories
Date and time: Tuesday, April 1, 2:00 p.m. to 2:50 p.m.
Join us for a series of four monthly 50-minute sessions designed for graduate students, instructors, and professors committed to exploring pedagogies of care. These sessions offer strategies that foster care, inclusion, and broaden perspectives in higher education, including insights into how brain science can enhance teaching effectiveness. Each session will provide practical tools for creating inclusive, engaging, and empowering learning environments, drawing on research into neural connections, brain plasticity, and how these processes affect learning, memory retention, and student engagement. Whether you’re teaching in-person or in an online format, this series will equip you with neuroscience-based strategies and pedagogical approaches that cultivate caring and inclusive educational spaces.
During the Bringing it All Together – Sharing Our Stories Spaces session:
- Participants will collaboratively share their experiences and insights, synthesizing the pedagogical strategies learned throughout the series to create an integrated teaching approach.
- Participants will discuss their practices through storytelling, identifying ways to further develop their teaching practices.
Register for the Pedagogies of Care workshop
Decolonizing Classrooms: Start here
Date and time: Wednesday, April 2, 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
As part of the Decolonizing Classrooms Series, “Decolonizing Classrooms: Start Here” is designed for those beginning their journey in decolonizing and reconciliatory learning. This workshop offers foundational knowledge about Indigenous Peoples, their Knowledges, and the important relationships we all maintain with the Land in what is now commonly known as Canada. Participants will learn about colonization and processes of decolonization, and identify initial steps to engage in important decolonizing and reconciliatory processes. This workshop will equip you with the necessary information to meaningfully engage with Indigenous pedagogies and foster ongoing learning and action. Additionally, it provides the background necessary for full participation in other workshops in the Decolonizing Classrooms Series.
Register for the Decolonizing Classrooms workshop
From Theory to Practice: Using the UM Competencies Framework to Level Up Experiential Learning
Date and time: Friday, April 4, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Have you thought about the kind of people you want your students to become upon graduating? You might envision them as empathetic listeners, critical thinkers, effective collaborators, or team players. How can education use Experiential Learning (EL) to move beyond traditional content delivery, actively nurturing these skills? Join us as we dive into the dynamic combination of EL and the UM Competencies Framework, equipping educators to foster real-world skills, growth, and empowerment in students.
Register for The Ins and Outs of the UM Competencies Framework workshop
Experiential Learning Community of Practice Brown Bag Lunch Conversations: Experiential or Active Learning What’s the Difference?
Date and time: Tuesday, April 15, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Bring your lunch and connect with other members of our community of practice! There is no formal agenda for these casual meetings just good people and conversation! Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts and experiences as we explore different topics in experiential learning.
Topic: Experiential or Active Learning what’s the difference? Are they different approaches, or different names for the same approach? Come tell us what you think!
Register for Experiential or Active Learning What’s the Difference?
Universal Design for Learning in Practice: Represent a Diversity of Perspectives and Identities in Authentic Ways
Date and time: Thursday, April 24, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Join us for the last Thursday of each month in an ongoing series, where participants will review discreet elements of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Participants will work together to develop pedagogical practices that align with the UDL principle being discussed that month.
Topic: The session will focus on CAST’s UDL principle of representing a diversity of perspectives and identities in authentic ways and how it can be directly applied to pedagogical practice. There will be a brief presentation of the core elements of this principle followed by a question-and-answer session where participants can collaborate with the facilitator to develop their practice.
Register for Represent a Diversity of Perspectives and Identities in Authentic Ways