Events & workshops
The Learning & Teaching Centre (LTC) coordinates and presents many events for faculty, teaching assistants and graduate students. The Centre for Academic Communication (CAC) provides a number of different workshops and drop-in events for students.
To Register for specific sessions, please visit this link View by Group, log in, scroll down to the event you wish to register for and click View. Keep selecting all the workshops you would like to attend. Then scroll up the page and click on the Click Here to Complete Registration button.
The database can be a little slow, so please be patient with all these steps. If you have any problems at all in registering for any of the sessions, please email the Learning and Teaching Centre or phone 250-721-8571.
LTC events
October
December
- 2018-12-10 - Peer-review for teaching enhancement
- 2018-12-04 - Applying for a Learning and Teaching Development Grant (LTDG)
- 2018-12-05 - Writing a Letter of Nomination
- 2018-12-11 - Writing a Letter of Nomination
Come join us for great workshops in a collegial, supportive atmosphere.
- Teaching Tips series, facilitated by 3M award-winner, Dr. Marty Wall, covering topics like teaching large classes, designing a syllabus and creating a multiple-choice exam.
- Faculty Institute of Teaching (FIT), formerly known as the Intensive Summer Teaching Institute (ISTI), a week-long refresher course held each August.
- Let's Talk About Teaching, a two-day session to kick-start your fall teaching.
- Other events, which you can find in our event schedule above.
We have workshops and events to help you succeed as a TA:
- The Fall and Spring TA conferences.
- Ongoing workshops to delve more deeply into issues common to the TA experience.
- The Teaching Assistant Consultant program, which provides in-department leadership for TAs.
While you are completing your graduate degree, be sure to take advantage of our programming to help you professionally develop:
- Workshops offered for TAs are for everyone, and can enhance your teaching skills.
- If English is not your first language, join our ILEAP (Intensive Lab in English for Academic Purposes) two-day workshops, offered three times a year and the Internationtal Teaching Assistant language program, offered over two days in August, designed to help you feel more comfortable leading tutorials in English.
- The Teaching Tips series is open to graduate students. Facilitated by 3M Award winner, Dr. Marty Wall, they cover topics like teaching large classes, creating a multiple-choice exam and developing a syllabus.
- See our event calendar for more information.
We're here to support your academic success. Come see us to find out who we can help you get more out of your studies.
- Want to be a better writer? A faster reader? Join a workshop at the Centre for Academic Communication (the CAC).
- Need help with a first or second year math course? Drop in to one of the Math Assistance Centre drop-in zones.
- Is English not your first language? Join one of our regular offerings of the Intensive Lab in English for Academic Purposes (ILEAP), held each semester.