Each fall The Gwenna Moss Centre hosts an orientation to teaching for those new to teaching or those new to the University of Saskatchewan. We welcome newly-hired faculty as well as not-so-new faculty who may have missed out on the orientation in past years. This year our orientation program runs for 3 days, with a distinctly different audience for each day.
Please register for each full day you plan to attend.
2013 Fall Orientation to Teaching and Learning (FOTL)
Monday, August 26, 2013 - For new faculty
Arts 208
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8:30 - 9 am Registration and Coffee
9 - 9:30 Welcome and Introductions to the University Learning Centre & The Gwenna Moss Centre with Vice Provost of Teaching and Learning with Patti McDougall and Jim Greer, Director of the ULC/GMCTE
9:30 - 10:30 Teaching as an Institutional Priority at the U of S, with Patti McDougall and Jim Greer
10:30 - 10:45 Nutrition Break
10:45 - 11:45 Building your (teaching) case for Tenure and Promotion, a panel presentation with Jim Greer, Kim West, GMCTE, Rob Pywell, Physics
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch at University Club with the Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning
1 – 2 pm Aboriginal Education – Aboriginal Education with Candace Wasacase-Lafferty, Director of First Nation and Métis Engagement, Jeff Baker, Education, and Tereigh Ewert-Bauer, GMCTE
2 – 3 Preparing for your Course: Writing the Course Syllabus with Kim West, GMCTE and Heather M. Ross, GMCTE
3 – 3:15 Nutrition Break
3:15 - 4:15 Roundtable Discussion on Launching Your Career as a Successful Teacher Scholar – Jay Wilson, Education, Jon Farthing, Kinesiology, Maureen Reed, Geography and Planning and Loleen Berdahl, Political Studies
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - For all who teach on campus, new & not so new!
Arts 133
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8:30 - 9 am Registration and Coffee
9 - 9:15 Welcome & Introduction to the University Learning Centre & the Gwenna Moss Centre, Jim Greer, Director of the ULC/GMC
9:15 - 10:15 Strategies for Engaging Students - Chris Clark, WCVM & Jim Greer, GMCTE
10:15 - 11:15 Assessment Strategies – John Kleefeld, Law, Carolyn Hoessler, GMCTE and Michelle Prytula, Education
11:15 - 11:30 Nutrition Break
11:30- 12pm The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) with Linda Ferguson, Nursing
12- 1 Lunch (on your own)
1- 2:15 Academic Integrity with Elana Geller, ULC; Copyright with Brenna Lozinsky, Corporate Administration; and Dealing With and Preventing Academic Dishonesty with Yin Liu, English and Jim Greer, GMCTE
2:15 – 3 Nutrition Break
Information Booths at GMCTE – 50.12 Murray & G3 Murray
3– 3:45 Thou Shalt and Shalt Not – Everything you wanted to know on Academic Courses Policy, Course Evaluations, Student Accommodations with Maxine Kinakin, SESD, Jim Greer, GMCTE, Russ Isinger, Student and Enrolment Services Division
3:45 – 4:30 Learning Technologies – Heather M. Ross, GMCTE, Ryan Banow, GMCTE, Jerrod Dietrich, ICT
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - For Graduate Students, by Graduate Students
Arts 133
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8:30 - 9am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9 - 9:15 Welcome and Overview of the Day—Dr. Jim Greer, Director of the ULC/GMCTE & Dr. Kim West, Educational Development Specialist, GMTCE
9:15 - 9:30 Importance of Graduate Student Teaching at the U of S—Dr. Trever Crowe Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies and Research
9:30 - 9:45 Undergraduate Demographic Landscape—Stan Yu, Research and Program Evaluation Specialist, GMCTE
9:45 - 10:30 Preparing for your Role as Tutorial Leader—Amelia Horsburgh, PhD Candidate, English, Graduate Teaching Fellow, GMCTE
10:30 - 10:45 Morning Break
10:45 - 11:30 Preparing for your Role as Laboratory Instructor—Ibi Bondici, PhD Candidate, Food and Bioproduct Sciences
11:30 - 1pm Lunch (on you own) and Optional Walk to Graduate Student Commons and along the Meewasin Trail
1 - 2:30 Graduate Student Panel: Critical Incidents—Melanie Bayly, PhD Candidate, Psychology; Jean Emmerson, PhD Candidate, Education Administration; Jan Gelech, PhD Candidate, Psychology; Wenona Partridge, MA Graduate Student, Philosophy; Facilitated by Sugandhi del Canto, PhD Candidate, Community Health and Epidemiology
2:30 - 2:45 Afternoon Break
2:45 - 3:30 Inclusivity and Accessibility in your Classroom—Adam Pottle, PhD Candidate, English
3:30 - 4:15 International Graduate Student Teaching—Rajat Chakravarty, PhD Candidate, Engineering; Mohammad Torshizi, PhD Candidate, Agricultural Economics
4:15 - 4:30 Closing Remarks and Evaluation of the Events of the Day— Amelia Horsburgh, PhD Candidate, English, Graduate Teaching Fellow, GMCTE; and Stan Yu, Research and Program Evaluation Specialist, GMCTE
