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Teaching Remotely: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Program Development (May 19th, 2021) Download a PDF summary of this session
Interdisciplinary teaching encourages instructors to consider new forms of collaboration across and through traditional disciplines, especially with the added complexities of our remote teaching and learning environment.
The recent Strategic Alignment Fund focus on interdisciplinary program development, presents an opportunity for faculty members to be involved in the creation new programs and to explore the collaborative and innovative opportunities interdisciplinary programs present.
Our panellists were:
- Chad Harvey, Associate Professor, Integrated Science Program
- Kate Whalen, Senior Manager, Academic Sustainability Programs
- Emad Mohammad, Director, Integrated Business and Humanities Program
- Colin McDonald, Associate Director, Integrated Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences Program
Teaching Remotely: Blended Pedagogies II (June 16th, 2021) Download a PDF summary of this session
Just over a year ago we made the abrupt transition to teaching and learning online. As we consider what a return to the classroom might look like, we must also consider how the ways in which we’ve approached teaching and learning in a virtual environment has had an impact on what this return might look like.
Our panellists were:
- Joanne Kehoe – Lead Educational Developer: Educational Technologies (MacPherson Institute)
- Jamie-Tyler Sewerniuk – Learning Technologies Help Desk (MacPherson Institute)
- Susie O’Brien – Professor and Chair, Department of English and Cultural Studies
- Bridget O’Shaughnessy – Associate Professor, Department of Economics
- Bruce Wainman – Director of the Education Program in Anatomy and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
The Importance of Reflection in Teaching Development (July 22nd, 2021) Download a PDF summary of this session
In 2019 MUFA completed a comprehensive review of Student Evaluations and recommended a shift from teaching evaluation to reflections on teaching development. Teaching development can be informed by peer observations of teaching as well as students’ reflections on learning at the course and program levels. A focus on the student experience and continuing to develop the practice of teaching has been further encapsulated in the recent launch of the 2021 Partnered on Teaching and Learning Strategy. Teaching evaluation is an important opportunity for educators to reflect and build on their teaching, but in a year that has been dramatically different than any we’ve encountered before, it is important for educators to reframe these evaluations.
Our panellists were:
- Robert Fleisig – Associate Professor,W. Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology
- Michel Grignon – Professor, Department of Health, Aging & Society
- Teal McAteer, Associate Professor, DeGroote School of Business
- Catherine Anderson: Director, Gender and Social Justice; Associate Professor (Teaching Stream), Department of Linguistics and Languages