Supporting Teaching at Trent: Professional Learning Sessions
Faculty members offered full-range of professional learning opportunities
Using Blackboard, collaborative approaches to learning, and integrating Indigenous knowledge into the university – these are just a few of the topics that will be covered in this year’s professional learning sessions planned by Trent University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
The sessions, and teaching and learning resources provided, are for instructors and graduate students at Trent’s Peterborough and Durham campuses and are built on the principles of collaborative and active learning techniques, practices that emphasize the sharing of strategies among peers.
“The CTL views this opportunity as a privilege that we get to work with all of these people and bring them all together to have these rich discussions. We know it creates a positive learning culture and it also creates an amazing experience for our students,” says Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, educational developer for the Centre for Teaching and Learning.
The professional learning sessions kicked off on a high note with a full room for the first session, “How to Keep Them Coming! Attendance Trends and Solutions,” on September 7, 2016. The session resulted in a very engaged and interactive discussion among the twenty faculty members present.
“The session was another excellent discussion. I harvested a few good ideas and enjoyed participating in a particularly well-facilitated, highly interactive discussion. A great investment of my time,” said attendee Dr. Gail Johnson-Morris, a business professor at Trent University Durham.
Facilitators of the sessions also benefit from their involvement. A recent workshop host commented, “I came away from that seminar with so many new ideas. What a fabulous opportunity this is for all of us to dialogue about our teaching. I hope to participate in more of these seminars.”
View the full schedule of events or register for a session.