Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic

Programs and Initiatives

Teaching and Learning Initiatives

• Undergraduate Forum

  • Report of 2007-08 Activities

  • Provost announces creation of Undergraduate Forum

  • Undergraduate Forum: Enhancing the Quality of Discussion and Decision Making in Undergraduate Education at the University of Saskatchewan

• University Learning Centre
  

• Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness
  The Gwenna Moss Teaching and Learning Centre, in collaboration with other units and individuals, offers programs, services, and resources to encourage, enhance, and support teachers, teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning at the University of Saskatchewan.

• Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
  Since 1998, the Government of Saskatchewan's Department of Learning and the institutions making up Saskatchewan's post-secondary sector have worked collaboratively to develop and implement a provincial strategy for technology enhanced learning.

• Master Teacher Award
  The University of Saskatchewan recognizes that teaching is one of its primary functions, and, accordingly, it expects its faculty members to strive towards excellence in their instructional responsibilities. Faculty must seek constantly to improve their teaching so our students are given as rich and satisfying an educational experience as possible. At the same time, good teaching must be recognized and rewarded at all levels of the institution. An atmosphere in which excellence in instruction is not only encouraged but also acknowledged in a tangible and visible manner must be created. The Master Teacher Award has been established as one step toward achieving this end.

• Teaching Evaluations
  As part of our commitment to the scholarship of teaching and the teacher-scholar model, the University of Saskatchewan, through a consultation process initiated by the Instructional Development Committee of Council (IDCC), has assessed its responsibility to teaching. The institutional commitment to the evaluation of teaching should be as strong as its commitment to the evaluation of research and implemented with the same rigour. To that end, the Principles of Evaluation of Teaching at the University of Saskatchewan document is intended to provide guiding principles concerning the evaluation processes for teaching.