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Spring Design - May 6-17, 2024 GMCTL is thrilled to announce a Spring Design event - a dynamic, two-week series of workshops dedicated to empowering educators with the tools, insights, and design time needed to elevate their teaching and course designs for the upcoming fall semester. Whether you are looking to enhance your teaching techniques, integrate competency-based education, revitalize your course design, or infuse your curriculum with principles of indigenization, inclusivity, and sustainability, Spring Design Week offers a workshop for you. See the event schedule on the Spring Design event page.

Below are topic areas and professional development opportunties for USask instructors, facilliated by the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning. USask graduate students and staff are welcome to attend sessions relevant to their work. Click the session titles for descriptions and registration.

Topic areas (click to jump down)

• Assessment Evaluation
• Broadening Perspectives
• Documenting and Growing Teaching Practices 
• Experiential Learning
• Generative AI and Teaching 
• Indigenization
• Instruction
• Planning

Session types
WK - Workshop: A single session; active learning discussion
SC  - Short Course: Multiple sessions/dates; deeper conversations and subject learning

Assessment Evaluation

• Assessment & AI SC
• Implementing outcomes-based grading WK
• Nurturing student wellbeing through fair and transparent assessments WK
• What's "new" about Canvas New Quizzes and how do I use it? WK
• May 16: Developing competency: Outcomes-based grading WK
• May 17: Grading competencies and outcomes using Canvas WK

Broadening Perspectives

• Intercultural teaching competencies SC
• Facilitating open and healthy dialogue in online courses WK
• May 07: Bringing the world into your course WK
• May 08: Simulating the world in your course WK
• May 09: Embed the Sustainable Development Goals in your course WK

Documenting and Growing Teaching Practices

• Measuring teaching: gathering feedback and planning for enhancement WK

Experiential Learning

• Embedding micro-internships in your course WK
• Case studies WK
• Sustainable Development Goals in the classroom WK
• From field to fjord - Prepare for field trips WK
• Jun 25: Community engaged learning WK
• May 06: Picking a domain for EL WK
• May 07: Setting up manageable reflective practices for your course WK
• May 14: Using Student Reflection to Measure Undergraduate Research Skill Development WK
  

Generative AI and Teaching

NEW Series! "Blink of an AI" - Join us for this new series of workshops which explore the potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in designing courses, assessments, and lesson plans tailored to your classroom needs. Connect with us to learn more about this new professional developement area!

• Creating learning outcomes with GenAI WK
• Creating lesson plans with GenAI WK
• Creating multiple-choice questions with GenAI WK
• Using GenAI to scaffold/ladder tasks WK
• Creating open-ended questions with GenAI WK
• Creating rubrics with GenAI WK
• Using GenAI to (re)design activities for learner centeredness WK
• Creating case studies with GenAI WK
• Creating authentic assessments with GenAI WK
• Creating aligned assessments with GenAI WK
• May 06: Design your course with GenAI: Intro to SMARTIE WK
• May 13: Design your course with GenAI: Intro to SMARTIE WK

Indigenization

• Inviting Indigenous people into your learning space WK
• Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
• Indigenizing instruction in higher education WK
• Reconciliation through Storytelling SC
• Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
• Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
• Inviting Indigenous people into your learning space WK
• Education and reconciliation virtual coffee talk WK
• May 06: Designing a personalized land acknowledgement WK
• May 14, 16, 17: Indigenization, Decolonization & Reconciliation (IDR) SC

Instruction

• Online teaching essentials SC
• Teaching skills short course SC
• May 09: Tired of the disengaged? Strategies for increasing student effort WK

Planning your course

• Creating your course syllabus WK
• Designing courses for inclusivity using UDL SC
• Writing effective learning outcomes and using to guide alignment within courses WK
• Integrating digital literacy into teaching and learning WK
• May 10: Designing an open educational resource to achieve your teaching and learning goalsWK
• May 14, 21, 28, Jun 04: Providing choice and voice: To, by, for, with students SC
• May 13:  Designing your online course WK
• May 14: Incorporating active learning in your online course using H5P WK
• May 15: Building your course in Canvas WK
• May 16: Designing for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion WK
• May 16: Developing competency in the classroom WK
• May 16: Designing large classes: engagement, active learning, feedback & assessment WK
• May 17: Creating your course syllabus WK

Contact GMCTL for more information

The 4 Seasons of Reconciliation: These online modules are a direct response to the Calls to Action by the TRC. This online module teaches learners about the experiences of Indigenous Peoples living in Canada. In collaboration with the Library, the GMCTL will help each person to better understand the reasons for reconciliation and the ways in which Canada should move forward to achieve the calls to action. A great addition to any course, we can help explore ways to connect these materials with your course. Learn more 

Land Acknowledgement session: A professional development workshop to personally understand and interpret the Land Acknowledgement in a meaningful and purposeful way. Explore the history, intercultural perspectives and personal reasons for how to make this powerful statement at events, meetings or in the classroom.

Conversations about Indigenization: A series of online modules followed up by synchronous group conversations exploring four key perspectives that support Indigenization: Power & Privilege, Land Agreements, Indigenous Pedagogy, and Place and Culture. This is a cohort process where each member brings their own perspectives to share with others as we learn to better understand how we can improve our support for reconciliation.

• Sparkshops are designed to stimulate conversations around teaching and learning. These 20-minute sessions are facilitated by GMCTL Educational Developers and can be added to the agenda of department meetings, faculty meetings, or other teaching related gatherings.

Annual and bi-annual events offered by the GMCTL

	GMCTL Fortnight - annually, each August The GMCTL Fall Fortnight is two weeks of exciting ideas about teaching, courses, and programs. Fortnight sessions vary in style, length, and scope - there is something for everyone! Schedule will be posted each August on the Fortnight webpage.
	TA Success Day - biannually, each September & January This event offers short workshops to graduate students in a Teaching Assistant role at USask. These focused sessions support development of specific skills and knowledge relevant to the TA role. This event is part of the TA Success Series. Schedules will be posted in advance on the TA Success Days webpage.
	Open Education Week - annually, each March Following the internationally recognized OE Week, the Gwenna Moss Centre along with partners across campus share our stories and supports around Open Education, Open pedagogy, and Open Resources.  Schedule will be posted on the Open Week webpage.

• Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (CUTL) - Those interested in the structure of this competency-based program may book a preliminary consultation with Sara Dzaman. Participants will be introduced to a variety of teaching strategies, planning approaches, assessment ideas, and reflective practice techniques.

• Transforming Teaching - This course is typically offered during the fall term and is an opportunity for faculty and instructors on campus to connect and explore the foundational aspects of teaching at the university level. Transforming Teaching is aimed to support term or tenure-track faculty, sessional lecturers, and post-doctoral fellows in their early years of teaching at USask.

Most courses and workshops listed above are open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The GMCTL also offers workshops, non-credit courses and resources specifically aimed to graduate students and postdocs.

• Grad Students and Postdocs