News

Educational developers

CTE is pleased to announce the hiring of three new Educational Developers in Indigenous Knowledges and Anti-Racist Pedagogies. Details about these new staff members and their respective roles will be forthcoming in September. 

Graduate students

Welcome to our new graduate-student staff: TA Workshop Facilitators (TAWFs)  Carina Felice (Biology) and Keqi Shu (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering). TAWFs support our graduate student programming by facilitating interdisciplinary and discipline-specific teaching workshops.

We'd like to thank and say goodbye to two TAWFs who have worked at CTE for the past several terms and contributed greatly to the Fundamentals of University Teaching program: Blessing Medon (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Angeline Ram (Geography & Environmental Management).

Congratulations to the latest recipients of the LITE Seed grants! 28 University of Waterloo faculty and staff received funding for six grants, ranging from Placed-Based Learning to Pedagogies for the Anthropocene! 

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An article on Extended Reality (XR) technologies in higher education has just been published by staff from three different Waterloo units. Gillian Dabowski (Centre for Extended Learning), Amna Idrees (Systems Design Engineering), and Mark Morton (Centre for Teaching Excellence) published "Advancing Extended Reality Teaching and Learning Opportunities Across the Disciplines in Higher Education" in Xplore after presenting at the 2022 International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN). 

The Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) program provides a comprehensive teacher development experience that is open to PhD students at the University of Waterloo.

Centre for Teaching Excellence Director Donna Ellis has been announced as the next President-Elect of the International Consortium for Educational Development. She recently sat down with a colleague in the CTE for an interview about this new position.

The Centre for Teaching Excellence is currently advertising two positions:

CTE Faculty Liaison - Faculty of Health (13 month term)
A CTE Faculty Liaison provides expert advice to instructors, primarily in their Faculty, regarding teaching strategies, learning activities, course design, assessment methods, instructional innovations and the integration of appropriate and effective learning technologies into face-to-face and blended learning course designs. This role works in conjunction with various colleagues in their associated departments, Faculties, and/or university support units as well as colleagues at CTE, primarily the other Liaisons and CTE Senior Educational Developers. More details about this opportunity are available on the Careers at Waterloo site. 

Educational Developer, Anti-racist Pedagogies (full-time, permanent)
The Centre for Teaching Excellence aims to foster teaching excellence, innovation, and inquiry by supporting instructor development, promoting a community around teaching, and nurturing a culture of teaching and learning at Waterloo. The primary purpose of the Educational Developer, Anti-Racist and Culturally Relevant Pedagogies, is to support faculty, graduate student, and postdoctoral fellows seeking to teach and supervise more inclusively. As part of Indigenous Knowledges/Anti Racism team the within CTE, the position will interact with our programming teams and curriculum team as well as with staff from the Indigenous Relations and Equity Offices. More details about this opportunity are available on the Careers at Waterloo site. 

Learn more about the mission, vision, and values of Centre for Teaching Excellence. We are a friendly, collegial, professional place to work! 

CTE is pleased to announce that we've hired Julia Burke to replace Scott Anderson as Faculty Liaison for Environment as well as Accounting & Finance, Political Science, and Economics. 

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CTE is proud of one of our current Teaching Assistant Workshop Facilitators, Lucy Hinton, and one of our graduates of the Certificate in University Teaching program, Phoebe Stephens, for co-authoring an article recently published in a pedagogy-focused special issue of Canadian Food Studies.

We’re pleased to announce that the schedule for the 2022 University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference (April 27 to 28, 2022) is now available.

CTE's Kyle Scholz is the coordinator of Waterloo's annual Teaching and Learning Conference. He recently fielded some questions about the conference posed by Mark Morton.

Kyle, the Teaching and Learning Conference is coming up before too long -- April 27 and 28. How many years has the conference been happening?

We’re in our thirteenth year now of running this conference....