Teaching Centre

One-to-one Consultations

If you need some help designing a new assigment, engaging your students, creating exams, or any other teaching related issues, you can meet with the consultants in the Teaching Centre anytime. Feel free to drop in, or give us a call and make an appointment.

If you aren't sure who you need to meet with, check out our staff profiles to better understand who can help you.

Peer Support

The Teaching Centre helps facilitate a peer support process on campus by matching instructors seeking help with experienced instructors on campus. This may be in the form of one to one meetings or classroom observations.

We also provide peer support opportunities via the [He]art of Teaching drop-in sessions. These sessions are held for two hours with experienced instructors who are willing to sit with you and discuss your teaching needs and concerns. Faculty are identified ahead of time so that you can ensure you are comfortable speaking with the instructors who are present. These sessions are offered throughout the year.

Check our events page upcoming sessions.

If you would like to participate as a peer mentor, please click here to learn more, or contact the Teaching Centre

Curriculum Design and Course Content Design

The Teaching Centre can help with all aspects of Curriculum and Course Design.

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Moodle Training

The staff in the Teaching Centre can help you with Moodle, whether you're a newcomer to the Learning Management System or a seasoned veteran of the LMS. We will consult with you to determine the best way to setup your course, implement activities, share resources and engage with your students.

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Projects

The University is committed to exploring the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The staff in the Teaching Centre has been involved in many education related research projects, and continue to do research in a variety of teaching and learning fields. If you would like to be involved in pursuing research in teaching contact the teaching centre. We may have a project that you can become involved in, or we may be able to find a way to help you pursue your teaching and learning research.

Teaching Development Fund (TDF)

One way encourage and facilitate the scholarship of teaching and learning is through the Teaching Development Fund. The TDF is a fund that is available to instructors on campus to help them explore innovative ideas in their courses. Every year numerous recipients receive up to $5000 dollars to explore new teaching ideas within their class. We look for applications that model new and innovative ideas, have a plan for evaluating the new ideas, and have ideas that will benefit the broader teaching community at the University of Lethbridge.

Click here to learn more and apply.

If you have some other ideas regarding the scholarship of teaching and learning, feel free to contact the Teaching Centre with you ideas. We will do our best to help your project succeed.

Teaching Fellows

As part of the advisory council, Teaching Fellows apply for a 1 year term to work on projects through the teaching center that will benefit the larger teaching community. Some projects that teaching fellows have been involved with in the past are:

• creating a graduate teaching assistant handbook
• helping plan teaching day and talking about teaching events
• involvement in designing and implementing the Graduate Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program

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Board of Governors Teaching Chair

The BOG Teaching Chair is appointed by the Board of Governors. The Teaching Centre has the privilege of working with the BOG Teaching Chair as part of the Advisory Council. BOG Teaching Chairs have overlapping terms and during these terms they co-chair the Advisory Council.

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Talking About Teaching

These events are meant to encourage discussion amongst the members of the teaching community here at the University of Lethbridge. Session presenters and styles vary from event to event. However, the session do have a few constants. First and foremost, these events are meant to be a forum to share ideas, comments, frustrations, success and experiences about teaching. All instructors and graduate students are welcome to attend these events. We are also aware of conflicting teaching schedules and instructors on satellite campuses, so we provide a live stream to include those who cannot attend in person. Finally, we promote these events as relaxed and informal. Even though we cover some hot-button topics in these sessions, we want the audience to feel comfortable sharing their ideas.

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Teaching Day

This is an annual Teaching Centre event that signals the culmination of the teaching year. It is a way to allow faculty and graduate students to celebrate teaching excellence and innovative teaching at the University of Lethbridge. Teaching Day normally takes place the first Friday in May of each year. At the teaching day, we have many activities similar to the Talking About Teaching events, that are geared to generating discussion. We also take time to allow the previous years Teaching Development Fund recipients to share their findings and experience in exploring new and innovative teaching methods, as a way of promoting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning here on campus.

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Check our events calendar to check official dates and times

Education Technology Integration Training

Technology integration has become a big part of the teaching and learning process. The staff at the Teaching Centre can help you with your education technology needs.

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Magazine

The Teaching Centre produces a high-quality annual magazine that will highlight many aspects of teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning here at the University of Lethbridge. The magazine will include academic articles, tips and tricks, shared experiences, humorous articles and much more.

Click here to learn how you can contribute.

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Professional Development

The Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Professional Development Program provides an opportunity for professional development in critical teaching skills, equipping graduate students to carry out their teaching duties effectively. Graduate students who have participated in sessions receive formal recognition of participation in this academic professional development program via a “Certificate of Participation”. This program addresses essential aspects of good teaching; equipping GTAs to carry out their teaching duties effectively and enhance their teaching skills as their careers advance.

Click here to learn more about the GTA PD.

Also check out our events calendar to find out when the next session is offered.

Faculty Teaching Development Workshops

Faculty teaching development workshops are a set of workshops meant to help instructors develop a sound teaching basis. The workshops are designed to develop and enhance teaching skills such as student engagement, classroom management and assessment design. As with other Teaching Centre events, these workshops are meant to promote discussion as well as teach valued skills.

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Check out our events calendar to find out when the next workshop is being offered.