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....
CTE is pleased to announce that we've hired Dr. Winnie Chan as our Educational Research Associate while Kristen Archbell is on parental leave. Winnie obtained her PhD from Hong Kong and her research focused on soft power, public diplomacy, and policy development process.
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To help introduce her to the University of Waterloo community, Trevor Holmes, CTE's Associate Director, recently interviewed Leslie Wexler, our new Senior Educational Developer, Indigenous Knowledges and Anti-racist Pedagogies.
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UPDATE: Here's a recording of a 45-minute session presented by CEL's Aldo Caputo, in which he provides useful information about the application process.
Proposals are invited for the 13th annual University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference taking place on April 27 and April 28, 2022. Our 2022 conference theme is “Fostering Partnerships in Pedagogy.” We are excited to welcome Dr. Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katherine Woodworth Professor of Education and Director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr College, as our keynote speaker.