Calendar of Events

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Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL)

Time: 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Location: Murray Library, Room G3
Facilitator: Sara Dzaman

This is an information session for those who are curious about the Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL). The Certificate in University Teaching and Learning is a competency-based program for USask faculty, sessionals and lab instructors to document and develop their skills in university teaching. Once you complete the program, you will have a portfolio that details evidence of your skills, achievements and reflections on your growth. For more information on the certificate see our CUTL webpage.

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Get FYRE'd Up: Faculty Coffee

Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Location: Murray, GMCTL Classroom 50.12
Facilitator: Aditi Garg & Mandy Fehr

This session is for past and current FYRE instructors of all types with all varying experiences (positive or negative!) incorporating research experiences into their first-year classes.

Join the new Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Initiative and connect with others who have participated in the First Year Research Experience. This informal coffee session will provide a space to connect with each other, share and reflect on your experiences, and identify potential opportunities for the future of the program.

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Tired of the Disengaged? Help students own their learning

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Murray Library, Room 145
Facilitator: Wendy James

In this 1-hour workshop, you’ll learn simple ways to increase student ownership of learning using assessment and instructional approach.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 2.2.2 - I design to engage diverse learners;
• 3.2.1 - I give students multiple opportunities to learn though practice and feedback, so they have sufficient time and support to reflect and improve (assessment for learning)

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Brining Sustainability into the Classroom

Time: 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Location: Zoom - Online
Facilitator: Aditi Garg

By experiencing learning for sustainability, students will grow their knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for a sustainable future. You can help students improve their sustainability competencies by developing course outcomes that align with the undergraduate competencies that describe ways students will actively demonstrate those competencies in the course. Reliable learning for sustainability include:

• Course outcomes that focus on competencies
• Instructional design that centres students’ agency to reflect, share, act
• Progression in practice & feedback
• Assessment of students’ competencies.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 2.1.3 - I select active & engaging instructional strategies aligned to an outcome and intended assessment;
• 3.2.3 - I design assessment tasks that require students to apply disciplinary learning under authentic, or close to authentic as possible, circumstances.

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Introduction to Integrating Information Literacy into Teaching & Learning

Time: 9:30am - 10:30 am
Location: GMCTL Classroom 50.12 
Facilitator: Heather Ross

Come learn about ways to help your students practice better information literacy skills. This session will explore the reasons to include information literacy and how to do it through existing learning activities in your courses. You will practice choosing concepts where students most need this and selecting appropriate supports and tools for this purpose.

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Building a Personalized Land Acknowledgment

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Murray, GMCTL Classroom 50.12
Facilitator: Darryl Isbister

Finding oneself on the journey to reconciliation, many people come to a moment when they want to find a way to use a Land Acknowledgement with more meaning and increased integrity. These beautifully crafted statements said at the beginning of an event, meeting or special occasion are meant to help invoke the spirit of the land and sky, and to create a space for mutual respect and understanding. This session will introduce participants to the process of understanding connections to the land and protocols fopr acknowledging the original inhabitants of this land.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

•  1.2.2 - I value perspectives and worldviews different than my own

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Canvas Tips for Instructors

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Murray Library, Room 161
Facilitator: Roberta Campbell-Chudoba

If Canvas is new to you, attend this session for strategies on structuring your course, connecting with students, and collecting assignments for assessment. This session is located in a computer lab in Murray Library.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

•  2.2.2 - I design to engage diverse learners

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Making Academic Integrity Expectations Crystal Clear

Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Location: Online - Zoom
Facilitator: Susan Bens

Students get mixed messages about what kinds of assistance and collaboration are appropriate for assignments.  Join this session for  reminders about what student may not know or may not understand and how you can make your expectations crystal clear.

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Bringing the World In: Creating Authentic Contexts in your Classroom

Time: 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Location: Online - Zoom
Facilitator: Aditi Garg

USask students should be able to contribute towards sustainable actions that achieve environmental, social, and economic benefits with community partners while developing and reflecting on the competencies related. This is mutually beneficial – partners can complete smaller, impactful projects and USask students can gain career-ready skills through experiential learning. Students should have opportunities to reflect, share, act on sustainability while developing the sustainability related competencies above. This workshop covers a range of community-engaged opportunities, starting with how to bring the community into the classroom.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 2.1.3 - I select active & engaging instructional strategies aligned to an outcome and intended assessment;
• 2.3.2 - I purposefully use a wide range of accessible communication strategies that make it easy for my students to understand what I am teaching;
• 3.2.3 - I design assessment tasks that require students to apply disciplinary learning under authentic, or close to authentic as possible, circumstances

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Creating your Course Syllabus

Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Murray, GMCTL Classroom
Facilitator: Heather Ross

Through this session, participants will learn about how to shape their course syllabi to not only include the elements required under the Academic Courses Policy, but also to set the tone for the course and provide students with a road map of their learning in the course, as well as who you as the instructor are as a person and educator.

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Lesson Planning 101

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Murray Library, Room 145
Facilitator: Anne-Marie Rollo

Designed exclusively for instructors seeking to enhance their instructional design skills. Gain essential knowledge and practical strategies to create well-structured and engaging lessons. From setting clear learning objectives to crafting effective assessments, this workshop equips you with the tools to maximize student learning outcomes. Elevate your teaching prowess and create impactful lessons that inspire and engage learners.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 2.1.2 - I create outcomes that are active, and have all three parts (active vereb, content, context);
• 2.1.3 - I select active & engaging instructional strategies aligned to an outcome and intended assessment;
• 3.1.1 - I select assessment strategies, both formative and summative, aligned to an outcome

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Applying Universal Design for Learning to Promote Inclusivity

Time: 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Location: Murray, GMCTL Classroom 50.12
Facilitator: Roberta Campbell-Chudoba

Join this session for practical inclusivity strategies, easily implemented into your course, based on Universal Design for Learning Principles.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

•  2.2.2 - I design to engage diverse learners

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Case Studies for STEM

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Murray, GMCTL Classroom 50.12
Facilitator: Aditi Garg

Come learn how to use case studies during lecture time effectively. You will be able to find cases through online repositories and adapt them for your classroom needs.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 2.1.3 - I select active & engaging instructional strategies aligned to an outcome and intended assessment;
• 2.3.1 - I use formative assessment to inform and adapt course/lesson design

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Reciprocity and Relationships: Indigenous Approach to Teaching & Learning

Time: 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Location: Murray Library, Room G3
Facilitator: Darryl Isbister

This session will support faculty and staff with begining to examine personal disposition within the context of teaching and learning. Educators can use the Reciprocity of the Relationship model to support the Indigenous student experience. The model describes the critical, fundamental understanding of the educator mindset needed for the respectful approach to improving educator-learner relationship, engagement, and in the end, achievement.

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Measuring Teaching: Gathering Feedback and Planning for Enhancement

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: Murray Library, Room 102
Facilitator: David Greaves

You put a lot of work into being the best educator you can. How do you know how well you're doing? Measuring teaching is important for both your continuous growth as an educator, but also to evidence your effectiveness - be that for tenure and promotion files or for teaching award nominations. This workshop focuses on gathering such evidence from students, faculty colleagues, and your own self-assessments, then using that evidence to plan for your continuous professional growth as an educator.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 4.1.1 - I articulate personal beliefs and assumptions about "good teaching";
• 4.1.2 - I set measurable goals for developing teaching practice guided by evidence;
• 4.2 - I make appropriate changes based on feedback

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Designing Assessments in a ChatGPT context

Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Murray, GMCTL Classroom 50.12
Facilitator: Susan Bens

Bring an assessment that you need to revise or reconfigure for the ChatGPT context. We will work on ChatGPT "resistant" and ChatGPT "inclusive" approaches. Whilte doing so, you will consider related teaching needs where:students know how to avoid harm, students value human capabilities, student use tools ethically, and students prepare for and adapt to new and disruptive technologies in the future.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 1.1.2 - I model and explain academic integrity;
• 3.1.1 - I select assessment strategies, both formative and summative, aligned to an outcome

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Wellness Practices in Teaching

Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Location: Murray Library, Room G3
Facilitator: Anne-Marie Rollo

Join us in discovering the transformative power of evidence-based practices that seamlessly integrate wellness into teaching and learning. Unlock the potential of your course design by learning practical and effective strategies to foster academic excellence while nurturing overall well-being. Embrace the opportunity to create a holistic learning environment that prioritizes the health and success of both educators and learners alike.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 1.3.2 - I purposefully select and use strategies to communicate inclusively and responsively with my students; 2.2.2 - I design to engage diverse learners;
• 2.3.2 - I purposefully use a wide range of accessible communication strategies that make it easy for my students to understand what I am teaching;
• 3.2.1 - I give students multiple opportunities to learn though practice and feedback, so they have sufficient time and support to reflect and improve (assessment for learning)

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Using Student Reflection to Measure Undergraduate Research Skill Development

Time: 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Location: Online - Zoom
Facilitator: Aditi Garg & Mandy Fehr

How do we measure success in courses with an emphasis on research skill development? Help students reflect on their own skills and simplify your own assessment process. This session will introduce a draft wrap-around tool that can be incorporated into classes to measure research skill development by having students identify their skill levels at the start and end of the course and reflect on any changes. Join us for an introduction to the tool and discussion on how it might be incorporated into your classroom.

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) Indicators:

• 3.1.2 - I design formative and summative tools (rubrics, checklists, rating scales, etc.) that make learning outcomes and success criteria manageable and explicit;
• 3.2.1 - I give students multiple opportunities to learn though practice and feedback, so they have sufficient time and support to reflect and improve (assessment for learning);
• 3.2.3 - I design assessment tasks that require students to apply disciplinary learning under authentic, or close to authentic as possible, circumstances

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Large Classes: Strategies for Engagement, Active Learning, Feedback, and Assessment

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Murray, GMCTL Classroom 50.12 
Facilitator: Wendy James & Heather Ross

In this session participants will learn about a variety of tools and techniques for engaging, assessing and providing feedback to students in large classes. You will practice choosing and using appropriate strategies for your own courses.

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