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Below are topic areas and professional development opportunties for USask instructors, facilliated by the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning. USask graduate students and staff are welcome to attend sessions relevant to their work. Click the session titles for descriptions and registration.

Topic areas (click to jump down)

• Assessment Evaluation
• Broadening Perspectives
• Documenting and Growing Teaching Practices 
• Experiential Learning
• Generative AI and Teaching 
• Indigenization
• Instruction
• Planning

Session types
WK - Workshop: A single session; active learning discussion
SC  - Short Course: Multiple sessions/dates; deeper conversations and subject learning

Assessment Evaluation

• Assessment & AI SC
• Implementing outcomes-based grading WK
• Nurturing student wellbeing through fair and transparent assessments WK
• What's "new" about Canvas New Quizzes WK
• Developing competency: Outcomes-based grading WK

Broadening Perspectives

• Intercultural teaching competencies SC
• Facilitating open and healthy dialogue in online courses WK
• Embed the Sustainable Development Goals in your course WK

Documenting and Growing Teaching Practices

• Measuring teaching: Gathering feedback and planning for enhancement WK

Experiential Learning

• Embedding micro-internships in your course WK
• Case studies WK
• Sustainable Development Goals in the classroom WK
• From field to fjord - Prepare for field trips WK
• Setting up manageable reflective practices for your course WK
• Community Engaged Learning WK
  

Generative AI and Teaching

Join us for workshops which explore the potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in designing courses, assessments, and lesson plans tailored to your classroom needs. Connect with us to learn more about this new professional developement area!

Indigenization

• Inviting Indigenous people into your learning space WK
• Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
• Indigenizing instruction in higher education WK
• Reconciliation through Storytelling SC
• Indigenization, Decolonization & Reconciliation (IDR) SC

Instruction

• Online teaching essentials SC
• Teaching skills short course SC
• Tired of the disengaged? Strategies for increasing student effort WK

Planning your course

• Creating your course syllabus WK
• Designing courses for inclusivity using UDL SC
• Writing effective learning outcomes and using to guide alignment within courses WK
• Integrating digital literacy into teaching and learning WK
• Designing for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion WK
• Developing competency in the classroom WK
• Providing choice and voice: To, by, for, with students SC
• Designing large classes: engagement, active learning, feedback & assessment WK

Contact GMCTL for more information

The 4 Seasons of Reconciliation: These online modules are a direct response to the Calls to Action by the TRC. This online module teaches learners about the experiences of Indigenous Peoples living in Canada. In collaboration with the Library, the GMCTL will help each person to better understand the reasons for reconciliation and the ways in which Canada should move forward to achieve the calls to action. A great addition to any course, we can help explore ways to connect these materials with your course. Learn more 

Land Acknowledgement session: A professional development workshop to personally understand and interpret the Land Acknowledgement in a meaningful and purposeful way. Explore the history, intercultural perspectives and personal reasons for how to make this powerful statement at events, meetings or in the classroom.

Conversations about Indigenization: A series of online modules followed up by synchronous group conversations exploring four key perspectives that support Indigenization: Power & Privilege, Land Agreements, Indigenous Pedagogy, and Place and Culture. This is a cohort process where each member brings their own perspectives to share with others as we learn to better understand how we can improve our support for reconciliation.

• Sparkshops are designed to stimulate conversations around teaching and learning. These 20-minute sessions are facilitated by GMCTL Educational Developers and can be added to the agenda of department meetings, faculty meetings, or other teaching related gatherings.

Annual and bi-annual events offered by the GMCTL

	GMCTL Fortnight - annually, each August The GMCTL Fall Fortnight is two weeks of exciting ideas about teaching, courses, and programs. Fortnight sessions vary in style, length, and scope - there is something for everyone! Schedule will be posted each August on the Fortnight webpage.
	TA Success Day - biannually, each September & January This event offers short workshops to graduate students in a Teaching Assistant role at USask. These focused sessions support development of specific skills and knowledge relevant to the TA role. This event is part of the TA Success Series. Schedules will be posted in advance on the TA Success Days webpage.
	Open Education Week - annually, each March Following the internationally recognized OE Week, the Gwenna Moss Centre along with partners across campus share our stories and supports around Open Education, Open pedagogy, and Open Resources.  Schedule will be posted on the Open Week webpage.

• Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) - Those interested in the structure of this competency-based program may book a preliminary consultation with Anne-Marie Rollo. Participants will be introduced to a variety of teaching strategies, planning approaches, assessment ideas, and reflective practice techniques.

• Transforming Teaching - This course is typically offered during the fall term and is an opportunity for faculty and instructors on campus to connect and explore the foundational aspects of teaching at the university level. Transforming Teaching is aimed to support term or tenure-track faculty, sessional lecturers, and post-doctoral fellows in their early years of teaching at USask.

Most courses and workshops listed above are open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The GMCTL also offers workshops, non-credit courses and resources specifically aimed to graduate students and postdocs.

• Grad Students and Postdocs