Juggling Institutional Priorities: Strategies for Instructors - Online (CTE7700)

Thursday, June 19, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

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Facilitators: Brenda Lee, Katherine Lithgow, Victoria Feth, and Madison Hill

Description

Presenters:

Brenda Lee  - Physics and Astronomy (Associate Professor, Teaching Stream)

Victoria Feth – Centre for Teaching Excellence (Educational Developer, Curriculum: Accessibility and Inclusion)

Madison Hill – Centre for Teaching Excellence (Educational Developer, Indigenous Knowledges)

Katherine Lithgow - Centre for Teaching Excellence (Senior Educational Developer, Integrative & Experiential Learning)

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the need to address multiple institutional priorities in your courses, such as mental wellbeing, Indigenization, and accessibility?

This series aims to provide a supportive community for instructors, offering a space for discussion and sharing of best practices. By learning from peers and building connections, we hope to make the task of juggling institutional priorities more manageable and less overwhelming. We envision holding these sessions once a term for the next year.

In our first session, Brenda Lee will showcase how she has made strategic changes to her course delivery that address multiple institutional priorities simultaneously. By sharing practical examples of how one change in her teaching approach has effectively connected to several institutional goals, we hope to begin a discussion on the types of changes you might consider making to address multiple priorities. Making strategic, incremental changes on an ongoing basis can be more manageable than trying to address all institutional priorities at once. Learning about ways to do so in community can help make the change process less overwhelming.

Registration

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Cancellations

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Accessibility

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