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Brightspace Workshops

The Centre for Teaching and Learning's Brightspace Workshop series provides in-person and on-line synchronous learning opportunities. In-person workshops for faculty/staff are offered in two varieties:

Step-by-Step: relaxed, slower-paced sessions and
Quick Steps: faster, technically driven sessions.

Start your Brightspace training with the Getting Started with Brightspace workshop to provide the basis for the more advanced workshops.

Once you are registered for a workshop, if you find you will not be able to attend, kindly unregister for the workshop so facilitators can plan activities accordingly.

For Faculty/Department-specific workshops, visit https://ctl2.uwindsor.ca/workshops/147/

Celebrating Teaching Excellence

Faculty, staff, and students will honour University of Windsor faculty members who received awards in the last year at the annual Celebration of Teaching Excellence. This event, hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Centre for Teaching and Learning, recognizes their important contributions to the culture of teaching and learning at the University.

Classroom Engagement Technologies

CTL offers workshops for learning technologies used in the classroom to engage students, such as student response systems (clickers) and group member evaluations tools.

Course Design

This course introduces participants to the principles and practice of effective course design, including developing effective outcomes, devising methods and strategies to help students master difficult concepts and theories, and aligning assessments. Participants will have the opportunity to design (or redesign!) a course of their choosing, receiving feedback at each step. This course is offered in a 6-week format and a two-week intensive format.

Developing Your Teaching Dossier Series

The "Developing Your Teaching Dossier Series" is a sequence of four 45-minute self-paced modules for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows exploring strategies to reflect on their teaching and develop their teaching dossier. While grad students and post-docs are the primary audience, these modules may be useful for anyone that is new to teaching or to the development of a teaching dossier.

Users can choose to take any one of the modules or can choose to complete all four of the modules in the series. Upon successful completion of each module, users will receive a certificate of completion. Completing the entire sequence of modules can allow you to explore a range of different considerations in your teaching dossier development process, including:

• exploring and reflecting on your teaching experience;
• identifying teaching-related transferable skills;
• effectively defining and narrating your teaching values and practices and their impact on student learning;
• describing components of a teaching dossier and begin writing various sections of your teaching dossier; and
• articulating teaching skills and experiences for academic and non-academic careers.

Access to these modules is provided in Brightspace. Once you’ve registered here, you can self-enrol into these modules by logging into brightspace.uwindsor.ca, clicking the Discover tab at the top of the page, and searching for the relevant modules. You will need to enrol into each one individually.

Early Career Faculty Workshop Series

The Early Career Faculty Workshop Series features sessions offered throughout the year, both on campus and online, and hosted by facilitators from across campus. Workshops are focused on issues, opportunities, and challenges related to early career faculty members at the University, and can be taken as stand-alone sessions, or as a series. Mid and late career faculty members are also encouraged to participate.

Fall GATAcademy 2024

GATAcademy 2024 is a professional development event open to all current and prospective UWindsor graduate assistants (GAs) and teaching assistants (TAs). Offering a series of interactive workshops led by experienced professionals from across the campus, GATAcademy 2024 will feature resources and activities relevant to both new and experienced GAs/TAs. Topics will include using Brightspace, inclusive teaching, best practices in grading and feedback, running effective labs and tutorials, and a whole lot more! GATAcademy 2024 will be held online from August 27th to August 29 and each day will feature four workshops. There will also be two in-person workshops and a campus-wide networking event on September 4th. More details to follow in the coming weeks!

Please note that all online workshops will be offered through Microsoft Teams. Remember: Please register for the workshops that interest you. You will be emailed the Teams meeting invite for the workshops you are registered in on the Friday before and the morning of the event.

Information provided to register for workshops may be used for program evaluation, program improvement, and research, but will always be deidentified. If data is used for research purposes, REB clearance will be sought. If you do not want your data used for research purposes, please contact Dr. Laura Chittle ctl@uwindsor.ca.

Graduate Teaching and Learning (GTL) Fellowship Workshop Series

The GTL Fellows across campus are dedicated to improving the experience, abilities, and support for graduate and undergraduate students that are involved in assisting with the teaching and delivery of courses either as GA/TAs or otherwise.

Workshops offered by GTL Fellows will be based in their respective Faculty and will target the specific needs of that Faculty’s GA/TAs.

If you have any questions about the GTL Fellowship Program, contact Dr. Laura Chittle at Laura.Chittle@uwindsor.ca.

Indigenous Curriculum & Pedagogy

Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)

This is an intensive three-day workshop. Each day involves a workshop in the morning, followed by a microteaching session in the afternoon, where each participant will be video-recorded teaching a lesson and will receive constructive written and verbal feedback from the other participants. Participants will also be given a video recording of their lesson each day for review at home. At the end of the course, participants will receive a certificate of completion.

The Instructional Skills Workshops take place in small group settings and are designed to enhance the teaching effectiveness of both new and experienced educators. The facilitators are part of a group of higher education instructors who have undergone training as facilitators in the ISW process.
In the ISW, participants will have opportunities to:

• work closely with other participants to improve each other's teaching;
• practice a variety of instructional strategies and techniques;
• increase awareness of participatory learning concepts;
• recognize the importance of establishing a positive learning environment; and
• increase knowledge of yourself as a teacher.

More specifically, participants will practice:

• using learning objectives to inform learners of expectations and intentions;
• writing useful, practical lesson plans;
• using questions and question sequences effectively during a lesson;
• using basic techniques to test for learning; and
• giving and receiving constructive feedback.

Please note: The ISW involves 24 hours of commitment distributed over 3 days.

Learning-Centred Teaching in Higher Education

This six-week half-credit course will explore and evaluate the principles and theories of learning-centred teaching in higher education. Participants will use research findings and pedagogical publications to inform their own teaching and learning practice, engaging with a wide range of empirically proven approaches to improve instruction systematically. The course provides a rich opportunity for the examination and application of these approaches in varying post-secondary learning cultures and academic settings.

Lecturing

Lecturing is a half course that will introduce you to basic skills and techniques of communicating successfully to students. In particular you will learn about explaining complex ideas, grabbing and holding attention, phrasing, communicating nonverbally, and generating emotional response.

Throughout the course, you will have opportunities to practice using the skills and concepts in active-learning lessons and participant-led microteaching sessions. You will also be able to give and receive feedback. By experiencing a variety of lecturing and presentation techniques in the student role, reading about them, and practicing some of them, you will be in a better position to evaluate these techniques for incorporation into your own lecturing, and how they can be adapted to suit your personal teaching style and disciplinary needs.

Special Topics

CTL can customize workshops designed to enhance teaching and learning practices at the University of Windsor. These sessions can be based on specialized needs that a group of campus constituents require. Please contact ctlevents@uwindsor.ca to connect with a specialist in your area.

Summer Series on Teaching and Learning

Keep your cool at the 2024 Summer Series as we explore some foundational topics in teaching and learning. This year’s Summer Series takes place on August 13-14.