Consultations

Upon request, the Centre for Teaching and Learning can provide consultations and workshops for teaching, learning, and curriculum or professional development.

We are currently available to faculty to provide consults to faculty on the following pedagogical topics on this website:

Teaching Improvement Broadly

• designing and implementing ways to evaluate teaching effectiveness
• facilitating peer observation within a unit or program
• exploring and implementing research on particular pedagogies relevant to a department or program
• reflecting on and adopting discipline-specific teaching practices
• designing and conducting workshops as needed
• reviewing and making sense of student evaluation data in general
• discussing, researching and implementing innovative techniques for teaching and learning

Learning

• designing for and assessing student learning in individual courses, curricular sequences, or larger programs
• facilitating research on student learning in a course, unit or program
• rethinking the effectiveness of learning spaces
• designing and conducting workshops as needed

Professional Development for the Instructor

• orienting new faculty
• mentoring junior faculty on their teaching
• fostering the professional development of graduate students as future faculty
• reviewing and making sense of student evaluation of your teaching
• developing your teaching skills either specific or generally by observation, reflection, discussion or other means you choose
• recording your class for your viewing
• creating plans for teaching improvement, confidential one-on-one consultations, and feedback from students
• designing and conducting workshops as needed

Learning

• designing for and assessing student learning in individual courses, curricular sequences, or larger programs
• facilitating research on student learning in a course, unit or program
• rethinking the effectiveness of learning spaces
• promoting accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion
• promoting indigenization of the curriculum
• designing and conducting workshops as needed

Curriculum and Course Design

• assisting in the development or revising of curriculum
• assisting in the (re)design of courses
• assisting in the development of pedagogy courses for graduate programs
• facilitating collaborative development and/or assessment of specific topics, skills, or lessons
• creating and linking learning outcomes to course design, assignments, and teaching practices for individual instructors
• designing and conducting workshops as needed