Fundamentals Microteaching Sessions provide participants the opportunity to practice delivering a 10-minute lesson and receive constructive feedback in a supportive, low-risk environment. This session is held in-person.
The 2024 Waterloo Assessment Institute (WAI), a two-day event, will be held on Tuesday, May 28th and Thursday, May 30th in the Math & Computer building.
The 2024 Waterloo Assessment Institute (WAI), a two-day event, will be held on Tuesday, May 28th and Thursday, May 30th in the Math & Computer building.
Discover strategies and ways of thinking to increase your confidence in the classroom at the Teaching with Confidence (CTE1234) workshop.
Learn how to break up your lectures with small activities that you can easily integrate into your lessons, at the Interactive Lectures (CTE1260) workshop.
Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a framework in educational psychology for understanding how the limited capacity of working memory affects learners' ability to process and store information. Described by Dylan Wiliam as "the single most important thing for teachers to know" (Wiliam, 2017), CLT informs instructors and instructional designers how to present information in a manner that avoids overloading learners' cognitive resources to maximize learning. Participants will learn from examples of improved design and explore areas in their teaching where they can apply this theory to improve student learning.
Gain techniques and confidence to make your in-person lessons more engaging at the Classroom Delivery Skills (CTE1226) workshop.
Learn practical strategies for planning, facilitating, and assessing your tutorials at Teaching STEM Tutorials (CTE1111). This session is geared toward tutorial TAs in science, engineering and math.
Documenting your teaching in a dossier involves harmonizing claims, narrative descriptions of practice, and evidence. This process can be guided by preparing your own teaching philosophy statement, which is a kind of thesis for the argument you wish to make about yourself, as a teacher.