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September

9/7/2023
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

An Introduction to Ventus for Instructors
Registration Closed
Ventus is an online portal that connects students, instructors, Queen’s Student Accessibility Services, and other support services in the process to request, assess, and implement academic accommodations. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to: Login and navigate the Instructor Portal View student accommodations in your course Add paper and online assessments Copy an existing assessment Modify an assessment

Virtual - Zoom

9/20/2023
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Building Classroom Communities Workshop Series: Establishing Classroom Culture: Community Agreements
Registration Closed
Creating an inclusive learning environment is crucial to student success and engagement. Community agreements are one-way educators can work to set the tone and expectations around their classroom space and culture. This workshop on Community Agreements uses discussion, self-reflection, and planning activities to better prepare educators with the tools and strategies to establish and maintain a supportive and inclusive classroom.

Virtual - Zoom

9/27/2023
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Curriculum Commons: Articulating Program-Level and Course-Level Learning Outcomes
Spaces Remaining: 55
What knowledge, skills, and values do students demonstrate as graduates of your program? By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to devise/revise program level learning outcomes to effectively communicate the value of the program to external reviewers, current, and prospective students. Working at the course level? This session will apply similar thinking at the course level.

Jeffery Hall, Room 225

October

10/3/2023
to 10/19/2023

Course Design Institute
Spaces Remaining: 4
Overview The Course Design Institute is a series of virtual workshops that guide participants through the process of designing an academic course. The Institute is open to all educators at Queen’s University preparing a course to be taught in the upcoming year. This year, the Institute will be offered online ZOOM and through an onQ course for digital resources and activities. There will be synchronous sessions, alongside asynchronous work. Institute Outcomes By the end of Course Design Institute, you will be able to: • identify situational factors that affect decisions you make in the design process. • apply principles of backward design and integrated course design to improve student engagement and learning. • review and advance your course design and teaching on decolonization, accessibility, inclusivity, anti-racism, global engagement, and/or student & instructor well-being.

Virtual - Zoom

10/4/2023
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Strategies for Inclusive Classroom Facilitation
Spaces Remaining: 27
As educators, we are called to grapple with the question of how to foster dynamic and engaging discussions while nurturing accountable spaces. This session will unpack how to help create community for meaningful discussions from the very first day of class and/or tutorials. Specifically, we will draw the connection between equitable teaching practices and inclusive classroom communities. Questions we will explore together include: How can we create and share space during difficult conversations? How can we diversify facilitation strategies? What are co-created community guidelines and how can we use them throughout a course? Note/Disclaimer: This professional development workshop is being offered as part of a partnership with the School of Graduate Studies and Post-Doctoral Affairs (SGSPA) and advertised through both the CTL and SGSPA. I acknowledge that by registering for this workshop through the CTL that my contact information will be shared with SGSPA in order for them to record my attendance at this session on the graduate supplemental training record.

Virtual - Zoom

10/18/2023
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

PUTL Workshop Series: Module 3: Understanding Educational Leadership
Spaces Remaining: 45
Higher education is continually adapting and changing to meet the needs of students and society at large. As educators, we are called to take on leadership roles to help foster this growth. This workshop will explore how to complete the components of PUTL Module 3: Educational Leadership—specifically identifying and analyzing a way in which you have acted as an educational leader. This workshop will be interactive and include time to work on your PUTL submission! It is helpful to self-enroll in PUTL before the workshop and bring along any materials to help you reflect on your teaching.

Virtual - Zoom

10/18/2023
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Pedagogical Technologies for Student Engagement and Feedback: Padlet/Flip
Spaces Remaining: 100
In this working session, we will examine the features of two collaborative digital workspaces: Padlet and Flip. Participants will then have an opportunity to explore the tools and ask questions while considering how such tools could help foster collaboration in your course.

Virtual - Zoom

10/24/2023
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Building Classroom Communities Workshop Series: Community Building and Accessible Pedagogy
Spaces Remaining: 32
Accessible Pedagogy is a process of designing courses and developing teaching styles to meet the needs of learners. Accessible pedagogy is foundational to establishing and maintaining a supportive and inclusive classroom. During this workshop on Accessible Pedagogy educators will explore foundational principles around accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

Virtual - Zoom

10/25/2023
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

SGS 902 Information Session
Spaces Remaining: 50
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.

Virtual - Zoom

10/25/2023
2:30 PM to 3:30 PM

onQ Beyond the Basics: Rubrics: Planning and Creating
Spaces Remaining: 48
In this session, we will discuss how rubrics can help with consistent grading and assessment equality. We will focus on two types of rubrics: holistic and analytic. Participants will have the opportunity to create a rubric in a course.

Virtual - Zoom

10/26/2023
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Creating a Teaching Dossier
Spaces Remaining: 53
More and more, universities require that candidates submit teaching dossiers when they apply for positions or as part their package for renewal, promotion, or tenure. A Teaching Dossier provides a summary of accomplishments, strengths, and directions as a teacher. In this session, participants will be introduced to the concept and structure of a Teaching Dossier. They will reflect on their own Teaching Philosophy and engage in a discussion of the outcomes and sources of evidence that can be used to support their philosophy, document their successes and direct future professional development. This session will introduce and provide examples of the nature and structure of teaching dossiers, which are a valuable summary of accomplishments, strengths, and directions as a teacher increasingly submitted when applying for academic positions or for promotion, tenure or renewal.

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D216

November

11/7/2023
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Collecting Feedback on Your Teaching
Spaces Remaining: 43
Teaching is not an exact science! It often involves lots of flexibility and adapting to the emerging needs of our students. Collecting feedback on your teaching can help you gather information on what worked well, what students might benefit from in the future, and provide opportunities for you to reflect on the teaching experience. As a TA or TF it can be challenging to determine how and when to collect feedback, interpret negative student feedback, as well as ensuring the feedback is meaningful to your own development as a teacher. This session will introduce ways to collect feedback from your students, peers, and others.

Virtual - Zoom

11/8/2023
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Pedagogical Technologies for Student Engagement and Feedback: onQ Annotations and Feedback Studio
Spaces Remaining: 100
In this working session, we will discover the benefits and limitations of both the Annotation and Feedback tools in onQ. We will explore how to integrate feedback directly into assignments and review strategies for providing effective feedback.

Virtual - Zoom

11/14/2023
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

onQ Beyond the Basics: Awards, Badges, Certificates and Intelligent Agents
Spaces Remaining: 48
In this session, we will discuss how to boost student engagement through awards and intelligent agents and how they can build an element of gamification. We will examine the features of two types of awards: badges and certificates as well as intelligent agents. Participants will have an opportunity to create and configure an award and intelligent agent in your course.

Virtual - Zoom

11/14/2023
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Curriculum Commons: PANEL: How is your Program Addressing Goals for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization Now and Into the Future?
Spaces Remaining: 95
Consult with an expert panel on goals for equity, diversity, inclusion, reconciliation, and Indigenization with your faculty, staff, and/or students. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped to identify recent, ongoing, and future-planned EDII-focused actions in their Faculties and programs.

Virtual - Zoom

11/15/2023
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Developing Globally Engaged Curriculum: Why, What & How
Spaces Remaining: 48
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.

Virtual - Zoom

11/22/2023
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Introduction to Course Design for Teaching Fellows
Spaces Remaining: 42
Designing a course can feel like a daunting task. Where do you even start? This workshop is aimed at teaching fellows and post-docs who would like some guidance on how to plan a university course. We will explore various elements of course design including crafting learning outcomes, assessments, backwards design, and accessible and inclusive teaching practices.

Virtual - Zoom

11/23/2023
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM

Building Classroom Communities Workshop Series: Responding to LLMs in the Classroom
Spaces Remaining: 32
The rising popularity of machine learning algorithms (LLMs) is reshaping the employment landscape and challenging traditional notions of education. This workshop offers an introduction to responding to LLMs/AI in the classroom through the concept of 'robot-proofing' education (Aoun, 2017). Educators will explore strategies and make plans to adapt their teaching practices and curriculum to meet the needs of tomorrow's learners.

Virtual - Zoom

December

12/4/2023
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Pedagogical Technologies for Student Engagement and Feedback: FeedbackFruits (FBF)
Spaces Remaining: 96
In this working session, we will explore FBF Peer Review and FBF Group Member Evaluation tools. We will discuss best practices around preparing students for peer evaluation and ways for providing effective feedback.

Virtual - Zoom

January

1/16/2024
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

PUTL Workshop Series: Module 6: Decolonization and Indigenization of Teaching and Learning
Spaces Remaining: 43
Reflecting on and deconstructing the cultural and social impacts of colonialism begins with education. PUTL Module 6: Decolonization and Indigenization of Teaching and Learning aims to help educators build their understanding of Indigenous and decolonizing pedagogies then critically reflect on their understanding to incorporate Indigenous and decolonizing pedagogies at the institutional level through their role as an educator. This workshop will explore how to complete the components of PUTL Module 6 – specifically an introduction to crafting a land acknowledgement. This workshop will be interactive and include time to work on your PUTL submission! It is helpful to self-enroll in PUTL before the workshop and bring along any materials to help you reflect on your teaching.

Virtual - Zoom

February

2/6/2024
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Active Learning Strategies
Spaces Remaining: 45
Adopting active learning strategies can be a challenging enough endeavor in optimal learning environments and a seemingly impossible task in theatre-style classrooms. In this highly active and interactive session, we’ll explore the principles of active learning, trouble-shoot ways of adapting instructional strategies, and learn to overcome the architectural limitations of a variety of classroom contexts.

Mackintosh-Corry Hall, D202