Thursday, 20 Oct 2016
Award-Winning Faculty Series: How to Foster Safe Spaces for Diversity and Inclusion
What do we mean by inclusion? What do we mean by diversity? As teachers, our answers to these questions are vital not only for our own teaching philosophy but also for the culture we are creating in our classrooms, which can perpetuate into workplaces after graduation.
CIRTL Online Webinar: Increasing Student Motivation through Instructional Practices
This session will address two types of instructional practices for increasing student motivation. The first type involves fostering students' "growth mindsets"; that is, helping them to think about intelligence and ability as something that can be improved over time with effort. The second type aims to enhance the perceived utility or relevance of course content.
Friday, 21 Oct 2016
Seminar: Peer Evaluations using ThinkSpace
ThinkSpace Learning Community is hosting a special session on Peer Evaluations using ThinkSpace where your most pressing questions about designing and managing your peer evaluations will be answered. Are you new to TBL and looking for an easy way to do peer evaluations? Have you been wondering which peer evaluation method to use - evaluation by categories or by balance points (Michaelsen method)?