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

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.

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

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