The Deadline for both the Provost's Project Grant for Innovative Practice in Collaborative Teaching and Learning and the Provost's Prize for Innovative Practice in Collaborative Teaching and Learning has been extended to September 20, 2013. More information about the Provost's grant or prize can be found here.
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Course Registration is Now Open for Transforming Teaching 2013
Transforming Teaching is targeted to support term or tenure-track faculty, sessional lecturers, and post-doctoral fellows in their early years of teaching (while all are welcome, priority is given to term and tenure-track faculty in the first three years of their appointment). The course runs weekly from September to November. To learn more about the course, click here.
Enrollment is limited, so apply early! Preference is given to first-, second-, and third-year faculty.
TRANSFORMING TEACHING REGISTRATION FORM
To register, print the above form, fill it in, and mail or drop it off to:
The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
50 Murray Building
3 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A4
OR
Fax to (306) 966-2242 (Attn. Transforming Teaching)
Over Easy Flipped Experience Fall Offering
September 24, October 1 and October 15
The Gwenna Moss Centre is pleased to provide a new Flipped Teaching immersive experience for faculty.
- The next "Over Easy" Flipped Experience will be held as a short course at the GMCTE over three Tuesday afternoons on September 24, October 1 and October 15. The sessions will run from 1:30-4:00 PM.
- Enrollment is limited to 5 participants.
- This offering is intended for instructors wishing to experiment with flipped teaching in the Winter 2014 Term.
Deadline to apply is September 17, 2013.
Application Form
Notice of acceptance will be sent by September 18, 2013.
Celebration of Teaching 2013
On September 12 at 3pm in the Exeter Room (Marquis Hall), the President, Provost, Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning, along with the Gwenna Moss Centre, will host the 2013 University of Saskatchewan Celebration of Teaching. At the event, the Provost's teaching awards for 2013 and special recognition of the University’s award-winning teachers during the past academic year will be presented.
Call for Experiential Learning Fund and Curriculum Innovation Fund Proposals
Experiential Learning Fund Curriculum Innovation Fund
Applications for funds to support experiential learning opportunities or curriculum innovation projects are being accepted from academic units. If you are interested in applying and want more information, please click one of the links above or contact us at gmcte@usask.ca.
In case you missed it: Dean Peter Stoicheff talks curriculum renewal in Arts & Science Magazine, winter 2012
"Curriculum renewal is one of the most important faculty-driven projects that the college will undertake in the Third Integrated Plan. ...The college’s Curriculum Innovation Steering Committee (CISC), chaired by Professor Scott Bell and Sheryl Mills of the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness, has done an outstanding job of undertaking and promoting the crucial planning and legwork for the beginning of our first phase of curriculum renewal.
Farewell Reception for Brad Wuetherick
Please join us ....
Farewell Reception for Brad Wuetherick,
The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness invites you to attend a farewell come and go \reception for Brad Wuetherick, Program Director at the GMCTE.
July 12, 2:30 – 4:30 pm University Club
Cash Bar will be available
Please join us as we wish Brad farewell and offer our best wishes as he leaves for the position of new Executive Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching, Dalhousie University.
GMCTE Recruiting a New Program Director
The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness is looking for a new Program Director. The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness provides teaching development opportunities for faculty and graduate students, offers curriculum development and instructional design support for academic programs and courses, and provides an educational program for faculty and staff on Aboriginal education. The Program Director leads the team of professional staff and collaborating faculty who deliver this programming. Reporting to the Director of the University Learning Centre, and in consultation with the Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning, Deans, Department Heads and faculty, the incumbent will work at a leadership and strategic level to support improvement in quality of teaching across the University of Saskatchewan and to support academic units in the design and development of innovative and effective academic programs, curricula, and courses.
Subscribe to Bridges Newsletter
The GMCTE at The University of Saskatchewan publishes the Bridges newsletter of ideas on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) to promote the improvement of teaching and learning at universities.
This newsletter is distributed in hard copy to every academic unit at the University of Saskatchewan, plus any interested member of the U of S community who has requested a hard copy mailed to them, and to all the Instructional Development Offices in Canada, and some beyond.
Recently, for budgetary and environmental reasons, we limited our print run and no longer send them in bulk to Departments. If any instructor is interested in receiving a hard copy through campus mail please email us at gmcte@usask.ca and we will be happy to send you your own print copy.
"Over Easy" Flipped Experience
The Gwenna Moss Centre is pleased to provide a new Flipped Teaching immersive experience for faculty. The initial "Over Easy" Flipped Experience will be held at the GMCTE on June 10 and 11. Enrollment is limited to 5 participants. This is intended for instructors wishing to experiment with flipped teaching in the Fall 2013 Term.
Flipped teaching is the process of moving lecture content from face-to-face class time to before class by assigning it as homework. This allows for more interactive and student-centred types of learning to take place during the scheduled class time. Flipped teaching often involves, but is not limited to, students viewing lecture videos as homework.
For more information and to apply, please visit the event page at: http://www.usask.ca/gmcte/flip_overeasy.
Deadline to apply is Wednesday, May 29.

