Join our monthly meetings to connect with colleagues involved in Experiential Learning across UM and explore best practices and challenges in experiential learning. 

This session: The Experiential Learning Gathering is an annual spring tradition that brings together members of the Experiential Learning Community of Practice and others, to celebrate, connect, and reflect. Hosted by the Office of Experiential Learning each May, this event offers faculty, instructors, and staff meaningful opportunities to build relationships, share ideas, and support one another in their ongoing journeys with experiential teaching and learning.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

You probably have heard that "teaching is an art." But have you thought of yourself as a teacher-artist? This workshop uses experiential and art-based pedagogies to increase your capacity for innovative and engaging teaching--such as storytelling, role-play, and creative works. 

Join us to learn how to lean into the strengths of your unique teaching style and explore strategies to infuse creative elements into your teaching! You will leave this workshop with a set of art-based tools designed to make the process of developing and facilitating courses more and enjoyable for you and your students. This workshop is also a great opportunity to develop skills and confidence speaking in public.

Location: Room 325, Education, 71 Curry Place

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Join us on May 28, 2026 for the Working in Good Ways Symposium – a celebration of the five-year anniversary of the launch of Working in Good Ways, an Indigenous-informed framework and resources for working with Indigenous and other systemically marginalized communities.

The WIGW Symposium offers you an opportunity to explore the Working in Good Ways framework and related resources, and to learn how the UM community has applied them to transform community-engaged research, teaching, advocacy and more.

The symposium will:

• Highlight the impact of Working in Good Ways
• Introduce the new Researching in Good Ways framework
• Showcase practical applications of Working in Good Ways across UM
• Demonstrate how you can use these approaches in your own community engagement, decolonization and reconciliation work.
• This event is generously supported by the University of Manitoba Strategic Initiatives Support Fund and the Indigenous Initiatives Fund.

All proceeds will go toward the Working in Good Ways Community Initiatives Fund, which will support community-engaged initiatives.

Click here to register for this event that runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Do you teach large classes and have a hard time coming up with ways to engage students? Are you looking for ideas to build-in activities and opportunities for discussion in your courses? Would you like to try new ways of presenting content but lecturing seems like the only alternative for large classes? 

In this workshop we’ll share tried-and-tested strategies to make your large classes more interactive and engaging. We will explore experiential learning pedagogy as a framework for organizing, delivering, and assessing course content in ways that maximize student participation and engagement--and give you a break from lecturing!

Our focus will be on small changes you can easily incorporate to any in-person course; however, these strategies can also be adapted to online courses.

Location: UM Zoom

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Join Johnathan Bevan and Jennifer Doering as they explain the integrated accommodations (IA) initiative. Integrated Accommodations are a collaboration between The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and Student Accessibility Services (SAS). It is a process where we integrate standard SAS accommodations into your course design. The session will outline the process and purpose of IAs and how instructors can take part. 

Location: UM Zoom

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Join us as we navigate the contentious world of generative AI. This session will outline the University of Manitoba's policy regarding Generative AI. We will also explore how our reactions as classroom instructors impact accessibility for students from diverse backgrounds. We will also explore ways we can leverage generative AI as a tool for learning.

Location: UM Zoom

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Curious about how colleagues are redesigning assessment to reduce stress, deepen learning, and build student ownership? 

Join us to learn fresh, practical approaches to assessing student learning. You'll explore real examples, from mastery grading and gamification to embodied learning and flexible policies, that strengthen student learning and agency. 

Come for ideas, dialogue, and practical inspiration you can adapt in your own courses!

Location: Room 200, Education, 71 Curry Place

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

You probably have heard that "teaching is an art." But have you thought of yourself as a teacher-artist? This workshop uses experiential and art-based pedagogies to increase your capacity for innovative and engaging teaching--such as storytelling, role-play, and creative works. 

Join us to learn how to lean into the strengths of your unique teaching style and explore strategies to infuse creative elements into your teaching! You will leave this workshop with a set of art-based tools designed to make the process of developing and facilitating courses more and enjoyable for you and your students. This workshop is also a great opportunity to develop skills and confidence speaking in public.

Location: Room 325, Education, 71 Curry Place

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Looking for focused time and space to get work done on your syllabus or lesson plans? This 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. drop-in coworking session adapts the model of the academic writing retreat for course planning work. It offers a space for you to work at your own pace, alongside other instructors, in a supported environment.

Educational developers and UMLearn specialists from The Centre will be available to answer questions and serve as sounding boards on a range of topics including but not limited to syllabus creation, lesson planning, accessible course design, and UMLearn tools.

Location: R060, Rehabilitation Building, 771 McDermot Ave.

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

No need to register in advance. Drop by for any part of the day and stay as long as you want!

Are you new to teaching at UM? This webinar brings together "everything I wish I knew" when I started teaching here--from relevant policies and procedures to how to create a course syllabus and navigate UM's online platforms. 

This webinar offers you a curated, short-and-sweet overview of our comprehensive Teaching Handbook, focused on helping you prepare and manage your course(s).

You will also meet other instructors and hear about the many supports you can access at The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning!

Location: UM Zoom

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Looking for focused time and space to get work done on your syllabus or lesson plans? This 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. drop-in coworking session adapts the model of the academic writing retreat for course planning work. It offers a space for you to work at your own pace, alongside other instructors, in a supported environment.

Educational developers and UMLearn specialists from The Centre will be available to answer questions and serve as sounding boards on a range of topics including but not limited to syllabus creation, lesson planning, accessible course design, and UMLearn tools.

Location: Room 325, Education, 71 Curry Place

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

No need to register in advance. Drop by for any part of the day and stay as long as you want!

Do you teach large classes and have a hard time coming up with ways to engage students? Are you looking for ideas to build-in activities and opportunities for discussion in your courses? Would you like to try new ways of presenting content but lecturing seems like the only alternative for large classes? 

In this workshop we’ll share tried-and-tested strategies to make your large classes more interactive and engaging. We will explore experiential learning pedagogy as a framework for organizing, delivering, and assessing course content in ways that maximize student participation and engagement--and give you a break from lecturing!

Our focus will be on small changes you can easily incorporate to any in-person course; however, these strategies can also be adapted to online courses.

Location: UM Zoom

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

The Teaching Online Institute is a faculty development series designed to support instructors in planning, teaching, and beginning to build online courses. The institute moves from course design, to teaching presence and student engagement, to practical course development in UM Learn. Across the series, participants will consider how inclusive and relational design principles can support clearer, more accessible, and more engaging online learning experiences. Together, the sessions build on one another but can also be taken independently. Participants are encouraged to bring their own devices and syllabi so they can apply the concepts directly to their own courses.

Designing an online course involves more than moving content from an on-campus course into UM Learn. In this session, participants will use a structured course design process to begin adapting a course for online delivery. They will identify key design decisions related to outcomes, assessments, learning activities, engagement, and technology, and will begin developing a one-page online module blueprint that they will continue to refine throughout the institute.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

The Teaching Online Institute is a faculty development series designed to support instructors in planning, teaching, and beginning to build online courses. The institute moves from course design, to teaching presence and student engagement, to practical course development in UM Learn. Across the series, participants will consider how inclusive and relational design principles can support clearer, more accessible, and more engaging online learning experiences. Together, the sessions build on one another but can also be taken independently. Participants are encouraged to bring their own devices and syllabi so they can apply the concepts directly to their own courses.

Online engagement is strongest when students experience the course as more than a place to access content and submit assignments. In this session, participants will explore practical ways to foster teaching presence, student co-presence, meaningful interaction, communication, and feedback. They will then revise their course blueprint to build in intentional strategies for participation, connection, and community.

Location: UM Zoom

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

The Teaching Online Institute is a faculty development series designed to support instructors in planning, teaching, and beginning to build online courses. The institute moves from course design, to teaching presence and student engagement, to practical course development in UM Learn. Across the series, participants will consider how inclusive and relational design principles can support clearer, more accessible, and more engaging online learning experiences. Together, the sessions build on one another but can also be taken independently. Participants are encouraged to bring their own devices and syllabi so they can apply the concepts directly to their own courses.

UM Learn can do more than hold course materials; it can help create an organized, accessible, and welcoming online learning environment. In this session, participants will explore key UM Learn tools and begin building a sample online module that supports clear navigation, teaching presence, accessibility, and community building. By the end of the session, participants will have a working module structure they can continue developing after the institute. 

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Curious about how colleagues are redesigning assessment to reduce stress, deepen learning, and build student ownership? 

Join us to learn fresh, practical approaches to assessing student learning. You'll explore real examples, from mastery grading and gamification to embodied learning and flexible policies, that strengthen student learning and agency. 

Come for ideas, dialogue, and practical inspiration you can adapt in your own courses!

Location: Room 200, Education, 71 Curry Place

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

This workshop (containing two sessions) will provide instructors with opportunities to design assessment strategies to support student learning. You will design formative and summative assessments and learn strategies for providing constructive feedback on students’ work. You will also have opportunities to evaluate the effectiveness of different assessment tools, such as holistic and analytic rubrics.

Please have at hand a current course syllabus with learning objectives.

Note: TLC Participants must take both Day 1 and Day 2 sessions to receive acknowledgment in completing the workshop

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

As instructors, you may have experienced behaviour by your students that you felt was disrespectful, rude, or disruptive. These can be challenging situations to deal with. This interactive workshop will focus on teaching strategies that foster and maintain respectful classroom behaviour.

Note: TLC Participants must take both Day 1 and Day 2 sessions to receive acknowledgment in completing the workshop

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Feedback and evaluation of teaching are part of every teacher’s life. How do you make sense of the evaluative feedback you receive from SRI scores, daily classroom experiences and student grades? This workshop examines the theory and practice of evaluation and suggests practical strategies for integrating effective evaluative practices into your teaching. Please note that this workshop does not cover the design and creation of student assessments. 

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

John Dewey observed that, “We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” In order to become a better teacher, it is necessary to reflect on what we do and why we do it – to ask ourselves, is what we do effective? In this workshop we will explore several models of self-reflection, including the Gibbs’ Model, as methods for engaging in a reflective practice. Participants will also have the opportunity to share their own successes and struggles as they strive to become a better teacher.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

In this workshop, we will explore a framework for using technology in teaching and learning. Rather than a technology ‘how-to’ session, the focus will be on providing a method for evaluating technology that supports the goals of teaching and learning. We will also discuss the benefits and challenges of using technology in the classroom.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Young adults are highly susceptible to mental health problems. We know that most instructors encounter many students who are struggling with mental health issues that affect their academic performance, behaviour in the classroom, and interactions with teaching staff.  Research also indicates that the incident rate and intensity of mental health problems experienced by students is increasing. These situations can be stressful, time-consuming, and potentially can involve risks to personal safety for the students and others. David Ness, the Director of the Student Counselling Centre at the University of Manitoba, will provide you with information about how to identify and respond effectively to student mental health issues, how to understand the factors that contribute to student distress, and how to access resources.  This interactive workshop will involve case study material to apply your knowledge of risk assessment, response alternatives, and on- and off-campus resources.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

This workshop introduces participants to Indigenous pedagogies by contextualizing Indigenous knowledges, discussing the importance of making space for Indigenous content and knowledge transmission in the academy, and providing participants with resources about the pedagogical significance of Indigenous knowledges.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an orientation to teaching and learning that promotes greater student choice and agency in learning experiences, with the aim of reducing barriers to learning by providing multiple means of representation, engagement, and expression. In this workshop, participants will explore how UDL values intersect with their own teaching philosophies, identify barriers to learning for students with a range of needs, and (re)design course elements to adopt UDL guidelines in a way that is practical for instructors yet beneficial to learners.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

As instructors, you may have experienced behaviour by your students that you felt was disrespectful, rude, or disruptive. These can be challenging situations to deal with. Staff from Student Advocacy and Case Management and the Office of Human Rights and Conflict Management will provide an overview of pertinent University policies and procedures to help you understand your rights and responsibilities as an instructor. This interactive workshop will provide you with strategies and tips for preventing and responding to these behaviours.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Every student and instructor brings their own culture into the teaching and learning contexts in which they inhabit. Similarly, every teaching and learning context is informed by and situated in institutional, regional, and national cultures. In this workshop, you’ll explore your own cultural attitudes, knowledge, and skills, and those of your learners and the environments you all find yourselves in. Then, you’ll apply this to your own teaching practices through elements of course design.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Do you want to promote academic integrity in your course but don’t know how?  In this workshop, we will discuss the meaning of academic integrity at the University of Manitoba, and how it relates to your teaching and learning environment (whether that be face-to-face, remote/online). We will discuss ways to implement teaching and assessment strategies that promote integrity that will allow you to focus on students’ learning and community building. Resources for academic integrity education (e.g., syllabus statements, learning activities) that you can modify and incorporate into your courses will be shared.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

Increasingly, university promotion and tenure committees are requiring a teaching dossier to document your development and achievements as an educator. This workshop looks at the requirements at the University of Manitoba for teaching dossiers and covers the basics of writing a Teaching Philosophy statement and creating a teaching dossier.

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

This workshop (containing two sessions) will provide instructors with opportunities to design assessment strategies to support student learning. You will design formative and summative assessments and learn strategies for providing constructive feedback on students’ work. You will also have opportunities to evaluate the effectiveness of different assessment tools, such as holistic and analytic rubrics.

Please have at hand a current course syllabus with learning objectives.

Note: TLC Participants must take both Day 1 and Day 2 sessions to receive acknowledgment in completing the workshop

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff

As instructors, you may have experienced behaviour by your students that you felt was disrespectful, rude, or disruptive. These can be challenging situations to deal with. This interactive workshop will focus on teaching strategies that foster and maintain respectful classroom behaviour.

Note: TLC Participants must take both Day 1 and Day 2 sessions to receive acknowledgment in completing the workshop

Location: Room 223, The Centre (65 Dafoe Road)

Open to: UM Faculty, Sessional Instructors, and Staff