By Natasha Kenny and Carol Berenson, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Over the past three years, we have had the privilege of reviewing hundreds of nomination packages for the University of Calgary Teaching Awards […]
By Mike Thorn, Communications & Marketing Assistant at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning The thought strikes me on a third read-through of my article’s final draft: There are too many parenthetical statements here. I […]
By Nicole Sandblom, Senior Instructor, Department of Chemistry, Natural Sciences Program
The Taylor Institute hosted two Community Cafés in April and May — students and instructors — to gather insights, experiences and opinions about teaching and learning at the University of Calgary. The results of the […]
By Derrick E. Rancourt The Taylor Institute Teaching Scholars recently established a community of practice approach to help learn about each other’s teaching research. Although it is early still, I can see how this approach […]
By Natasha Kenny and Nancy Chick, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning In December, we attended a celebratory lunch and debrief with instructors who taught in the learning studios in the Taylor Institute for Teaching […]
“Yes. Anything.”
I met this “anything” suggestion with dumbfounded silence.
This is a snippet of a conversation that I had that forever changed the way that I approach teaching and learning.
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By Cheryl Jeffs and Brit Paris, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning December 22, 2016 A virtual launch of Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching (PPLT): Proceedings from the University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary […]
One of the great challenges we have in teacher education concerns the need to ensure that our teaching reflects the approaches to education we encourage our students to enact in their practice.
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For a variety of reasons, sometimes it seems difficult to open up deeper dialogue about pedagogy between post-secondary instructors.
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