With the launch of Queen's Global Engagement Strategic Plan (2023-2028), our institution is committed to helping all students develop the skills, competencies, and habits of mind needed to make a positive difference in the world through global learning experiences. To mobilize this goal, educators across disciplines are invited to begin and continue to imagine approaches to global learning beyond exchange programs that move students to a different country and culture by expanding virtual and local opportunities that are more accessible and sustainable.

Join the CTL for a conversation about virtual exchange, more specifically collaborative online international learning (COIL), as a critical pedagogy for global learning. In our time together, we will explore the ‘what’, ‘why’, and ‘how’ of COIL collaboratively and reflect on the opportunity to create virtual exchange in one’s course.

Teaching dossiers are increasingly required as part of the application process for academic positions and are often required for consideration for promotion within the academy. This session will provide an introduction to the essential elements of a teaching dossier. It is designed to assist you in highlighting your teaching accomplishments, strengths and instructional initiatives. Activities and discussions will focus on the process of writing a teaching philosophy statement as well as on a variety of ways to seek and interpret feedback on the effectiveness of your teaching.

By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to devise strategies for documenting and highlighting the ways in which instructional strategies, student activities, and assessment of learning serve to affirm program goals. Working at the course level? This session will encourage thinking on course design as connected to program outcomes. 

Our first Teaching to Transgress session of 2024 is a conversation with Dr. Leela Viswanathan on her recent monograph, The Deliberate Doctorate, in which she reflects on her academic journey through her PhD, and her experiences as an associate professor and graduate supervisor. This session will be of particular interest to graduate students, and anyone interested in pursuing a doctorate, as well as graduate mentors and supervisors.  
 
At the time she embarked on her PhD, Dr. Viswanathan had already spent a decade as a community planner and policy analyst. She earned her doctorate in 2007 from York University, and in 2015, obtained tenure as an associate professor at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON). A lifelong learner, Dr. Viswanathan is an accomplished and innovative educator, mentor, and researcher. Currently, the founder and principal of Viswali Consulting, a planning and advisory firm that supports individuals, organizations, and institutions to change systems and practices through policy, research, and planning, Dr. Viswanathan is also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s, and Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University. She is a Registered Professional Planner (RPP) in Ontario and was inducted into the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners in 2021.