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IN THIS ISSUE
Teaching & Learning Announcements and Events
Important Deadlines
What’s New in Teaching & Learning at Laurier
EVENTS
Congratulations to
Carol Duncan on her 2014
3M National Teaching
Fellowship! Join us to honour
Carol on this recognition of
her exceptional teaching and
educational leadership.
March 12, 2014 | Hawk’s Nest Fred Nichols
Campus Centre, Third Floor, 3:30 p.m.
Faculty are invited to Laurier’s Annual 3 Minute
Thesis (3MT) Competition. Drop in throughout
the morning to cheer on our graduate students.
March 4, 2014 | Paul Martin Centre.
A NEWSLETTER FROM THE TEACHING AND LEARNING COUNCIL WINTER 2014
WELCOME MESSAGE from DR. PAT ROGERS
As Chair of Laurier’s Teaching and Learning Council, I am
pleased to bring you this inaugural issue of our newsletter,
Teaching and Learning at Laurier. Each term the
newsletter will feature news, events, deadlines and
opportunities for professional growth and learning. We will
highlight significant issues affecting the teaching and learning
environment and raise awareness of what our very talented
teaching body is doing and thinking about. So, we need to
hear from you! Have you been trying (or heard about)
something particularly effective or innovative? Do you have
concerns about a particular teaching or learning issue? Have
you discovered a really useful resource, book, website, idea or
program? Teaching and learning is a community enterprise
and we would love to fill each newsletter with articles written
by faculty, teaching assistants and other teaching professionals
at Laurier.
Two centres at Laurier are dedicated to working with
students and faculty to enhance the learning experience:
Teaching Support Services (TSS) and Learning Services (LS).
Each has been renamed recently to more adequately highlight
the important role they play in furthering Laurier’s teaching
and learning mission. TSS becomes the Centre for
Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE) and LS becomes
the Centre for Student Success (CSS). Both centres work with
faculty and educational professionals in designing experiences
and spaces that stimulate students’ imaginations and learning.
Much of the content in this issue of the newsletter is related to
their work – we hope to hear from you in the next issue!
at Laurier
DID YOU KNOW?
Community Service Learning (CSL) has moved! CSL is now a department within the Centre for Teaching
Innovation and Excellence. Managed by Gail Roth, CSL is offered
in 15 different courses across the Waterloo and Brantford
campuses this semester. CSL integrates meaningful community
service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to
enrich teaching and learning experiences while strengthening
communities. Ever thought about offering CSL in one of
your courses? more information
EVENTS continued…
Foundations in University Teaching
(for doctoral students and post-docs)
April 8 - May 1, 2014
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 - 4 p.m.
Waterloo | BA208
more information/register
Designing Curricula for Effective Writing
with Scientific and Quantitative Data
April 29 - 30, 2014 | Waterloo
more information/register
Integrated & Engaged Learning Conference
May 7 - 9, 2014 | Waterloo
more information/register
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Centre for Teaching Innovation and
Excellence welcomes Matt Farrell, who
joins the centre on March 3, 2014 as an
Educational Developer at Brantford.
GET INVOLVED
Integrated and Engaged Learning Conference Join us for our upcoming conference in May 7 - 9. With three
keynotes and six concurrent sessions, the conference promises
to be a wonderful opportunity to showcase and share our
collective experience, innovation and achievement in improving
the quality of post-secondary education. Session proposals
have been received from many Laurier community members
as well as colleagues across Canada (Northern BC to
Newfoundland) more information/register
Designing Curricula for Effective Writing with
Scientific and Quantitative Data Join us on April 29 for a day-long event consisting of a
keynote address by Dr. John Bean, an expert in writing
pedagogy from the University of Seattle, an informal ideas
exchange over coffee and a hands-on workshop. In addition,
Dr. Bean will meet with various academic programs on the
morning of April 30 to discuss how to promote and support
student writing at the course and program level. This event is
a collaboration between Educational Development and
the Writing Centre. more information/register
DEADLINES
2014/2015 Laurier Teaching Fellows
Applications:
April 14, 2014
more...
OCUFA Teaching Award
Nominations:
May 23, 2014
more...
3M National Teaching Fellowship
Nominations:
August 31, 2014
more...
ANNOUNCEMENTS continued…
Congratulations to our 2013 Teaching Award
Winners! Laura Allan, Business & Economics,
Quincy Almeida, Kinesiology, Duane Heide,
Education, Colin McLaren, Kinesiology,
Sara Matthews, Global Studies, Rob Milne,
Geography and Environmental Studies,
Jane Newland, Languages and Literatures,
Jason Roy, Political Science, Susan Shaw,
Mathematics and Kevin Swinden, Music.
Congratulations to our inaugural
2014 Laurier Teaching Fellows!
more...
Stephen MacNeil
Chemistry
Mercedes Rowinsky-Geurts
Languages and Literatures
Congratulations to one of our
Athlete
Academic Mentors, Bree Chaput, a
recent recipient of the McGraw-Hill
Ryerson Scholarship!
DID YOU KNOW? continued…
Intercultural Development Office (IDO)
The IDO jointly reports to the Centre for Teaching Innovation
and Excellence and the Centre for Student Success. Through
the IDO, Nadine LeGros offers workshops (e.g., Communication
in the Internationalized Classroom and Teaching in the Canadian
Classroom) and resources (e.g., Using Language Resources to
Develop and Refine Your Academic Language and Top 10 Ways
for International Students to Succeed) designed to enhance the
conditions of success for international and immigrant students,
contribute to the development of intercultural communication
competencies at Laurier, and support Laurier instructors who
wish to internationalize their curricula at the course and
program level. more information or contact Nadine LeGros.
Online Research and Learning Strategies Support Do your students struggle with research or need help with
learning strategies like critical reading? Online Research SI
is a program created by Centre for Student Success and the
Library to help students improve research skills and learning
strategies. Online Research SI is a series of MyLearningSpace
content modules, each with online videos, activities
that allow students to apply the skills they learn while
helping them complete the course’s major assignment,
and grading rubrics. Faculty can import modules into their
MyLearningSpace course, choosing the ones most
relevant to their course outcomes or assignment. If you wish,
students can be awarded grades for completion of the
modules (typically 5% - 10%). Tracking of module completion
and student questions can be done by the instructor or by
CSS using a trained student mentor. Modules include
research organization, critical reading and note taking,
critical thinking, choosing and focusing a topic, finding
scholarly sources, evaluating sources, citing sources, using
sources in arguments and creating an annotated bibliography.
Online Research SI is being piloted in the 2014 winter term.
To participate next fall contact Michael Lisetto Smith or
Joanne Oud.
WHAT’S NEW?
WHAT’S NEW? Continued…
MyHelpSpace: Online Academic Support for
Students
Many academic support services exist at Laurier to help
improve student success, but students and faculty may not be
aware of them. MyHelpSpace is an online one-stop portal that
makes academic support services more accessible and visible.
It gathers Centre for Student Success and Library support
resources into one spot in MyLearningSpace to provide 24/7
on-demand access for undergraduate students. Faculty can
view content by logging into MyLearningSpace using
myhelpspace.guest/happyfish and can use a pre-prepared
PowerPoint slide to promote MyHelpSpace to students.
For further information contact,
Melodee Martinuk, Anne Marie Wetter or Joanne Oud.
LAURIER’S TEACHING AND LEARNING COUNCIL
Past members include: Tom Buckley, Mary-Louise Byrne,
Susan Cadell, Ruth Cruikshank, Lesley Cooper, Michel
Desjardins, Mark Duffie, Orna Duggan, Gail Forsyth, Shohini
Ghose, Sandy Hughes, Donna Kotsopoulos, Stephen MacNeil,
Jeanette McDonald, David McMurray, Charles Morrison,
Joan Norris, Joanne Oud, Mercedes Rowinsky-Geurts, Michael
Steeleworthy, Andrew Welsh and Colleen Willard-Holt.
The council is chaired by Pat Rogers and was originally
established and chaired by Deborah MacLatchy in 2010.
If you would like to join the council, please contact Pat Rogers.
more...
ANNOUNCEMENTS continued…
Introducing our Academic Integrity Officers!
For issues surrounding Academic Integrity
contact:
Brantford, Judy Eaton or
Kitchener/Waterloo, Lea Caragata
more...
The Centre for Teaching Innovation and
Excellence offered a new University
Teaching Certificate (UTC) Program for
graduate students (full-time and part-time)
and post-doctoral fellows, launched in the
fall of 2013.
more ...
Continuing Studies and the Faculty of
Education have partnered to launch a new
certificate for K-12 teachers, “Mental Health
Issues in the Classroom.”
more...
SOMETHING TO SHARE?
Do you have an idea, an upcoming event,
workshop or a research project that you
would like to share? We would like to hear
from you! Submit your ideas to Connie Davison
by March 31, 2014.