CENTRE for TEACHING and LEARNING
Instructional Skills
Strengthen your teaching practice with sessions designed to build your confidence in the classroom, explore new teaching strategies and connect you with your peers. Whether you’re fine-tuning specific skills or diving into an immersive workshop experience, these programs provide practical, hands-on learning opportunities.
If you’re ready to enhance your instructional skills, we have short sessions and extended workshops to help you on your path.
Instructional Skills Tune-up Series
Add more strategies to your teaching toolbox with short, focused 45-minute sessions that fit into your busy schedule. Attend four or more of the nine sessions throughout the academic year to earn a certificate that highlights your commitment to continuous improvement. Each workshop provides strategies that you can immediately adapt for your classroom.
Topics and schedule are updated each term.
Instructional Skills Workshop
Discuss, reflect and learn in a supportive, safe and collegial environment. The Instructional Skills Workshop is a small-group session designed to enhance the teaching effectiveness of new and experienced educators.
In this three-day, in-person workshop, you design and conduct three “mini-lessons” and receive verbal, written and video feedback. Using an intensive experiential learning approach, you receive information on the theory and practice of teaching adult learners, the selection and writing of useful learning objectives with accompanying lesson plans, techniques for eliciting learner participation and suggestions for evaluation of learning.
This program is offered once or twice each year. Space is limited.