Pedagogies Sessions

5The session(s) on this page are geared to exploring various pedagogies and practices for teaching and learning excellence.

  • Registration is through CTLI@nic.bc.ca and accepted at any time up to 30 hours prior to the session.
  • Registrations will be confirmed via the sending of an Outlook invite with the connection information/URL and passcode.
  • Sessions with no registrations will be cancelled.
DROP-IN SESSION: Creating *Triple A* Learning Outcomes
  • How can you teach a course without an aligned, assessable and accountable set of learning intentions (or learning outcomes) that are written for students?
  • How can you teach a course without those learning outcomes directly aligned to all of your student assessments (quizzes, tests, assignments, projects, shop and lab work etc?) and associated grading criteria found in your rubrics, checklists, scoring and other tools?
  • How are you ensuring students are clear about what is expected of them to be successful in your course?

If your ACD or course outlines are in need of a refresh, most likely your course learning outcomes need some help! Bring some of your learning outcomes and I’ll share some tips and time saving actions about how to create Triple A learning outcomes.

  • Alignable – to institutional plans, program learning outcomes and to each student demonstration of learning (evaluations)
  • Assessable – observable and measurable with criteria and context including one student action per each
  • Accountable – able to obtain examples of student demonstrations as evidence of success, useful for students
  • Facilitator: Liesel Knaack
  • Dates: contact CTLI for help
DROP-IN SESSION: Enhancing Your Course Learning Outcomes with Intercultural and Indigenous Perspectives
  • Ever wondered how ‘not’ to write an Indigenous learning outcome? Or whether ‘interculturalize’ is a made-up word?
  • Come join NIC’s Indigenous, Global, and Teaching and Learning Facilitators for monthly virtual coffee chats.
  • These sessions are for instructors working on courses that are not specifically Indigenous or internationally focused. We will explore how learning outcomes can be developed to incorporate a more inclusive lens, to ensure all students feel welcomed and represented in the classroom.
  • Facilitators: Sara Child, Indigenous Education Facilitator, Office of Indigenous Education and Margaret Hearnden, Global Learning Facilitator, Office of Global Engagement
  • Dates: TBD
Metacognitive Teaching Practices: How You Can Help Students Learn How to Learn

Students don’t arrive in our classes equipped with all the knowledge, skills and strategies about how to best learn. They typically rely on ineffective strategies or strategies that worked in other learning environments but don’t work in post-secondary classes. Metacognitive teaching practices (simple activities that can take 5-15 minutes to do) can be embedded in your classes to help students learn about how learning works and how best to learn in your discipline area. Join me in exploring a few simple practices to help your students learn about learning. Explore Metacognition.

  • Facilitator: Liesel Knaack
  • Dates: None at this time
  • Format:
REthinking Assessment: Untangling Grades from Feedback for Improved Learning

In this session I’ll share some ways to untangle grades from feedback to provide a way forward with learning that increases student agency, builds a culture of continuous learning and improve engagement and understanding. Explore Ungrading. Explore Simple and Focused Assessments.

  • Facilitator: Liesel Knaack
  • Date: None at this time
  • Format:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: MANAGING PLAGIARISM, CHEATING AND THE RISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Academic integrity is a hot topic these days as instructors struggle to find ways to ascertain originality in student work and develop learners who can expertly navigate the emerging world of artificial intelligence (AI), homework sites, the plethora of ideas on the Internet and exploring ways to shortcut their workload.

Students and faculty are currently living in a time with meteoric use of ChatGPT and other chat bots, the embedding of AI chat into search engines like Bing and Google and the increasing number of ways students can leverage technology to create content and build ideas for their work.

How do educators keep up to date on all these changes and adapt their assignments and assessments to ensure originality of student work and manage student learning expectations around these new changes? This half day session is full of discussion, exploration and unpacking of situations and challenges. Explore Academic Integrity. Explore Artificial Intelligence.

  • Facilitators: TBD
  • Date: None at this time
The Essential MUST DOs on the FIRST DAY and FIRST Weeks of a Course: Ways to Build A Cohesive Community of learners

In this session I’ll share some essential activities, engagements and strategies to build a cohesive community of learners from the first day onwards and with reinforcement the first few weeks. The strategies and tips are simple and easy to do – but often overlooked or presumed.

  • Facilitator: Liesel Knaack
  • Date: None at this time
  • Format: