Instructional Programs & Practices Project Team

Thank you for your interest in joining the Instructional Programs and Practices project team, one of three project teams working together through the Teaching Innovation Incubator’s (TII) Accessible Education project. This is one of many initiatives that will occur over the course of our disability inclusion journey. The Disability Inclusion Steering Committee (DISCo) team commits to providing regular, transparent communication on its progress, and invites you to join us by participating in a way that resonates with you.

Over the next few years, the Instructional Programs and Practices project team will explore how to create alternate program pathways, ensure accessible experiential learning opportunities exist, develop accessibility standards for teaching and learning, and crucially, identify a process to establish bona fide and essential academic requirements for programs and courses.

The Instructional Programs and Practices project team, led by co-leads Diana Skrzydlo (Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Mathematics) and Donna Ellis (Director of the Centre for Teaching Excellence), will have a broad mix of representation from across the campus and is currently seeking expressions of interest from faculty members from all faculties.

The Teaching Innovation Incubator will support projects by acting as a hub to connect teams to appropriate expertise from across campus, provide guidance on the overall direction of the project, and coordinate campus-wide communication about the progress of this work. Project team members will meet with their co-leads and fellow project team members on a monthly basis. They will be tasked with deciding how to address their assigned AODA recommendations and assisting with the work to do so.  Project team members will work with project leads to determine how best to address the AODA recommendations that align with instructional programs and practices, and then will either be directly responsible for completing the work or identifying the academic support unit most qualified to complete the work. Such arrangements will be made as clear as possible at the outset of the project but as the work proceeds, roles may evolve. Project team members will ideally serve as members throughout the entirety of the project’s three-year lifecycle, starting in Fall 2023.

Please submit expressions of interest by Friday, September 22 at 5:00 pm by completing the form below.

Draft Terms of Reference are posted here for consideration.