The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness welcomes all delegates from across the country and around the world to the first ever Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning conference being hosted at the University of Saskatchewan. We look forward to this great opportunity to share ideas and practices in the area of community service learning with colleagues who have made the journey to Saskatoon. Have a great conference!
All Announcements
Learner-Centered Assessment Workshop Series in ES&D
Educational Support and Development, in the office of the Council of Health Science Deans, is offering a series of workshops on learner-centered assessment. These workshops, while aimed at faculty in the health sciences, are open to anyone on campus. For more information, and to register for these workshops, please visit the ES&D website.
Experiential Learning Conference
Date: May 1, 2012
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Arts 241 (Neatby-Timlin)
The Experiential Learning Conference, open to all instructors, staff and students interested in creating experiential learning courses and programs, is an opportunity for those looking to deepen their understanding and meet with others interested in the area.
The conference will include workshops about:
- Community Service-Learning
- Work Experience
- Field Courses
- Undergraduate Research & Inquiry-Based Learning
The conference will begine with opening addresses by the Acting Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning – Dan Pennock, the Special Advisor on Experiential Learning – Baljit Singh; and, the Special Advisor on Outreach and Engagement – Keith Carlson.
For full details please click here.
Spring Teaching Week
Join us during the week of April 30th to May 3rd for special events and workshops. For full information go to our event page at www.usask.ca/gmcte/events
2nd Annual SOTL Symposium
The U of S Centre for Discovery in Learning, in conjunction with the Gwenna Moss Centre, is hosting the 2nd Annual SOTL Symposium on April 30th. The theme of the symposium is "exploring the impact of our research on teaching and learning", and will feature Lorne Whitehead, former Vice-President Academic from UBC, as our plenary speaker. The full program featuring sixteen presentations by researchers across campus is now available online. For more information, please check the symposium website, under "Events".
Race, Space and White Identity Production: Anti-Racist Education in the Human Service Professions.
March 29th, 1 - 3 pm, Room G3 Murray Building
Despite social and material evidence of racial inequality and on-going colonization in Canada, many factors contribute to making anti-racist education in a Canadian context very difficult. The contemporary popularity of multiculturalism in Canadian education ostensibly serves to cultivate recognition of the belonging of 'cultural' others, but continues to perpetuate whiteness as the taken-for-granted position from which the acceptance of difference is brokered. Critical race theory and the growing body of literature that theorizes space and spatiality as central to racializing processes and practices are useful in challenging the widely held assumption that public institutions such as schools and other places of learning such as universities, including colleges of medicine and nursing are race neutral spaces.
Using Clickers to Engage Your Students
Jason Ellis, from Turning Technologies - the provider of our campus clicker tool, will be visiting campus this week to run training sessions on basic and advanced uses of clickers in the classroom. The first session (on Thursday, March 8) is aimed at people who are new to the use of clickers and would like to explore how they mighbegin using them in their classes. The second session (on Friday, March 9) will be an advanced session, structured as a round table discussion, aimed at those faculty already using clickers in their classes who would want to explore more advanced uses of clickers. Please go to the events calendar to register for these events.
Behind Every Great Teacher is a Great Teacher
The 2011 3M National Teaching Fellows, including the U of S' own Fred Phillips, want you to know that Canadian university professors care about teaching. So they’re saying thanks in the Globe and Mail to the teachers who changed their lives.
You can join them. Write a letter to the teacher who changed your life, in 100 words or less. This STLHE/AUCC-sponsored initiative will see hundred of people post a letter on the STLHE bulletin board for everyone to see.
Go here to share your message:
For a copy of Fred's message that appeared in the Globe and Mail, please go here.
Expanding Horizons and Revealing the Core of a Teaching Philosophy
Researchers at The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness are interested in examining the usefulness of a “mystery montage” process in helping aspiring and practicing teachers to write or revise teaching philosophy statements. This study involves participation in three one-hour workshops designed to assist you in creating your own mystery montage which can help to reveal the core of your teaching philosophy. For more information, or to register/participate in this research study please visit
http://www.usask.ca/gmcte/events/shortcourses
Deadline Coming for Provost Teaching Awards and Master Teacher Award
The University of Saskatchewan gives out a number of teaching awards every year. There are two Master Teacher awards that recognize outstanding teaching over a career. This is the pre-eminent teaching award given out each year at Convocation in the Spring and Fall. The deadline for the next competition is February 15th.
The Uof S also gives out 21 Provost Awards for Teaching Excellence - one for each College (or Division in the College of Arts and Science), as well as institutional awards for graduate student teaching, for teaching at the graduate level by a faculty member, for new faculty member, for internationalization, for aboriginal education, and for innovation in teaching. The deadline for submitting your nomination to your College (for the College awards) or to the GMCTE (for the institution-wide awards) is February 1st.
