Facilitated by Karalyn McRae, Centre for Teaching and Learning (Course Instructor)

Come learn more about SGS 902 – a graduate-level credit course on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education being offered this Winter. SGS 902 is an on-campus course open to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at Queen’s who want to develop as skilled, thoughtful, and confident post-secondary teachers.

This session will provide an overview of what to expect in this course, and will explore how the course will foster your professional development as an educator.

Facilitated by Clarissa de Leon and Karalyn McRae, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Are you a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow looking for an opportunity to learn more about pedagogy and to reflect on your own teaching experiences. The Professional Development in University Teaching and Learning (PUTL) modules are a series of online modules that invite you to explore and reflect on your teaching philosophy, experience, and educational leadership and earn an acknowledgement of completion for each module. Come learn about the modules including two new modules on Anti-Racism and Decolonization launching this Fall! The session will include information about PUTL and an opportunity to ask questions.

Facilitated by Lindsay Brant and Monica Garvie, Centre for Teaching and Learning

This webinar will talk about how Decolonization and Indigenization can be defined in a variety of contexts and frames of reference, and then bring us to a common understanding of the thoughts and feelings behind each. As both Indigenous peoples and Settlers, this conversational style workshop will allow us to find the ways in which we can collectively and individually work towards becoming more connected so we may build strong and healthy co-existences within the places and spaces we share. We will both teach and share with one another as we work towards achieving respectful, reciprocal, and mutually beneficial changes in our own relationships, and look forward to creating lasting and impactful institutional changes towards meaningful reconciliation.

Facilitated by Yasmine Djerbal, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Much debate has taken in recent years about the place of difficult conversations in classroom discussions—especially when it comes to race, class, religion, gender and sexual identity, and experiences of what bell hooks has called imperialist white supremacist heteropatriarchy (2009)—and how instructors can facilitate conversations that can be politically charged, conducive to learning and accountable. In this workshop, we will think of proactive strategies for facilitation and think about ways you can create accountable spaces in face-to-face or online settings. 

Facilitated by Yunyi Chen, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Queen’s is becoming increasingly diverse with students from around the world joining the university community to pursue their education. To effectively respond to the cultural, linguistic, and educational diversity students brought into the classrooms, educators are in need of reorienting their curriculum for global engagement to enrich student learning experience and enhance student success.

In this workshop, participants will explore their own ‘why, what and how’ of developing a globally engaged curriculum. They will work together to envision what a globally engaged curriculum may look like in one’s own disciplinary field or academic context and start enacting their visions in practice through small steps.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to incorporate at least one pedagogical element of global engagement into their course (re)development.