The Centre for Teaching and Learning is available to facilitate departmental retreats, workshops, and curricular development. Educational developers are available to support your units in identifying teaching and learning goals and implementing plans to achieve these objectives in the short and long term.
CTL staff are experienced in facilitating retreats supporting the Queen’s Institutional Quality Assurance Process (QUQAP). These events are tailored to the needs of your programs, and can focus on a range of topics, including innovating program-level learning outcomes, curriculum mapping, reflecting and updating the progression of learning for different program pathways, articulating departmental objectives, and much more.
We are also experienced at developing and facilitating workshops on other elements of teaching and learning. Recently, we have facilitated retreats on integrating I-EDIAA (Indigenization-Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Anti-Racism and Accessibility) frameworks into course and program development, considering the impact of Generative AI on assessment design, and integrating active learning strategies in large undergraduate classrooms. We ensure that our events are collaborative, and that the event agenda is founded on departmental goals, interests, and strengths.
Contact us at ctl@queensu.ca to inquire about specific workshop and retreat needs.
To ensure we have adequate time to identify goals, plan the agenda, and schedule facilitators, we require a minimum of four-weeks' notice to plan and schedule a retreat, meeting or workshop.
Additional Resources
Elevating Teaching through Departmental Leadership
As administrative leaders, departmental heads fulfill various roles. They serve as the primary representatives for their departmental faculty, staff, and students, both internally and externally.
Curriculum and Program Review
Curriculum development is a multi-step, ongoing, and cyclical process of continuous advancement towards intended goals for teaching, student success, and advancement of the program.
Curriculum Commons
The Curriculum Commons provides sessions for faculty members, instructors, administration, and support staff related to advancement of curriculum – especially as part of the Queen’s University Quality Assurance Process (QUQAP) and the Cyclical Program Review (CPR) Self-Study process.