Teaching Centre (TC)
The Centre offers confidential personal support, feedback, campus community events and resources to all instructors and professors at the University of Lethbridge. The infograph below summarizes at a glance all of the services and programming we design to support you in your teaching and development thereof.
Consultations
Meet with our friendly, knowledgeable, and skilled staff in a confidential and safe environment to discuss any of your teaching needs. We can help with the design or development of your courses, evaluation tools for measuring student performance, or any area where you would like our professional peer-feedback.
You can request a one on one consultation using our online form. We will work with you to determine your needs and make suggestions that will help you improve your teaching.
You can also contact our Teaching Development Facilitators directly.
Teaching and Learning Resources
We are always updating our teaching resources that address innovative educational practices, and instructional technologies for faculty and instructors across the disciplines.
Teaching Events
Orientation to Teaching at the University of Lethbridge
This event is designed to introduce new faculty members and instructors to the structure and people of the U of L. We consider it one of your first opportunities to meet new colleagues from different departments as well as members from the Teaching Centre.
If you wish to arrange for your own one-on-one orientation, you may contact Jeff Meadows, Erin Reid, Kristi Thomas, or Joerdis Weilandt.
These in person events are hosted by the Teaching Centre multiple times per year. Join us for a small panel discussion followed by questions and discussion from the audience. All faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend.
Do you have ideas that you would like to explore Talking About Teaching? Contact Brad Reamsbottom (brad.reamsbottom@uleth.ca) to discuss your ideas.
Classroom Conversations
The topics covered at this online event are faculty initiated and facilitated discussions. This is a great way to connect in conversation with your peers. All faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend.
Do you have a topic you would like to facilitate at a Classroom Conversation event? Contact Glenda Martens (glenda.martens@uleth.ca) to discuss your ideas.
These are skill based workshops that focus on specific teaching needs.
This annual event brings together teachers from multiple disciplines across campus to explore new teaching strategies, techniques, and technologies. The event has a keynote address as well as concurrent sessions that appeal to a wide range of teaching topics.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA) are actively encouraged to participate in the GTA Professional Development Program sessions throughout the fall and spring semesters to become adequately equipped for these duties, and to acquire vital skills for their future academic careers. In summer 2021, we will be offering a one-week intensive online teaching bootcamp (Aug. 30 – Sept. 3).
Sometimes you may have conflicting events and you may not be able to attend the Teaching Centre events. If there is a topic you would like to see explored in one of or discussion-based events, or if there is a skill you wish to develop in a workshop, you can inform us by requesting a workshop using the form below.
Funding
Board of Governors Teaching Chair
The Board of Governors Chair in Teaching is a two-year position (with two-course relief per year). Candidates apply through the office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic). As part of the application, candidates submit a teaching-related proposal for the duration of their term.
Teaching Fellows
Teaching Fellows will be academic staff members with tenured, tenure-track or continuing appointments who have demonstrated both commitment to excellence in their own teaching and willingness to champion the importance of teaching development in the university community.
Excellence in Teaching Award
The University of Lethbridge Excellence in Teaching Award, formerly known as the Distinguished Teaching Award, was established in 1987 at the University of Lethbridge under the auspices of the President. The award is in recognition of the central importance of teaching to the philosophy and goals of the University of Lethbridge and to provide recognition to those members of the academic staff who excel in teaching.
3M National Teaching Fellowship
Canada’s most prestigious university and college teaching award is not a prize but a fellowship which 10 nominees from across Canada are invited to join each year. The Fellowship emphasizes excellence in teaching and in educational leadership equally.
U of L 3M National Teaching Fellows:
Shelly Wismath, School of Liberal Education, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, 2017
Patricia Chuchryk, Department of Sociology, 1999.
