a plug for the Re-Thinking Workshop

[Nicky Didicher <didicher@sfu.ca>]

Do you have an upcoming course you've never taught before or a course you need to revise substantially? Please consider taking advantage of the Re-Thinking Teaching 4-Day Workshop run through the TLC. This year it will be held Thursday–Friday & Monday–Tuesday, April 24, 25, 28 and 29, from 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. on the Burnaby campus. 

The workshop, developed by Cheryl Amundsen in Education, is normally offered only once per year and offers faculty members an intensive faculty-led and faculty-supported experience. You will learn techniques for mapping out a course and for matching assessment and teaching strategies to suit the kinds of learning you want students to achieve. We alternate between large group activities of 20-24 faculty from different disciplines and small groups of 4-5 faculty plus facilitators (former participants & TLC Educational Consultants). You will have time to work alone and also time to present your work-in-progress to your small group and get feedback from them. Past participants will share how their course designing went and how it worked out in the classroom. 

Participants find this workshop to be exhilarating and a useful way to get a course to work in the ways you want it to. For a description of the event by a past participant, check out this blog post with a day-by-day account by Nienke van Houten of Health Sciences:http://blogs.sfu.ca/departments/fhs-teaching/?p=421#more-421 

The workshop is open to permanent and limited-term contract faculty, and there is no charge for it. You must register in advance and fill out a form assessing what you see your course as needing. Applications are due by Feb. 21st. Please apply electronically at http://www.sfu.ca/tlc/programming/rethink.html 

Please direct any questions to Stephanie Chu (TLC) at stephanie@sfu.ca or Nicky Didicher (English) at didicher@sfu.ca 

With thanks for reading and best wishes for the Spring term,
Nicky Didicher