Pedagogies Sessions

The 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.

 

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
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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
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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: Emma Courtney and Kim Pfeifer
  • 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: