Celebrate Learning Week and Thompson-Okanagan 2024 Highlights
Celebrate Learning Week From May 6 to May 10, 2024, the CTL and CTLT facilitated Celebrate Learning Week (CLW), a cross-campus showcase of teaching and learning activities and strategies around the theme, “Remembering the Human in Loop.” There were 31 events in total: 10 internal events organized by the CLW programming committee, CTL members and […]
Emergence, Curiosity, and Care in a Community of Practice on Access, Inclusion, and Place-Based Teaching and Learning
Over the past academic year, seven members of our UBC community came together as part of a Community of Practice (CoP) centered on “Access, Inclusion, and Place-Based Teaching and Learning”. We intentionally chose a model for our CoP that was focused on the practice of teaching, using a model known as “Teaching Squares” (Berry, 2008; […]
Congratulations to our new ISW Facilitators and Trainers!
The FDW is part of the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) multi-step model, an internationally certified program designed to increase teaching effectiveness and encourage reflection on teaching practice. Jens Vent-Schmidt, experienced ISW Facilitator and FDW Trainer and member of the CTLT team, led the training in collaboration with Electra Eleftheriadou and Barbara Komlos, CTL Educational Consultants and ISW Facilitators, who […]