Fall Teaching and Learning Workshops (Truro Campus)
Wednesday, November 18
9 a.m.– 3:30 p.m.
McCrae Library, Faculty of Agriculture, Truro Campus
Registration opening soon!
Through interactive workshops, participants will explore strategies for providing meaningful feedback that supports student success formatively, insights from Student Learning Experience Questionnaire (SLEQ), the emotional labour of teaching, and evidence-informed approaches to teaching Gen Z learners. These workshops are intended to offer practical ideas, reflection, and opportunities to connect with each other.
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9–10 a.m.
Effective Feedback in Action: Supporting Student Success
Bruno Roy, Student Feedback and Evaluation Coordinator Shazia Nawaz Awan, Educational Developer (Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Global Engagement)
This session explores how a strong feedback culture can enhance student learning and engagement. Participants will examine principles of effective feedback, discuss strategies for providing formative and progressive feedback throughout the learning process, and consider how timely, meaningful feedback can support student success and continuous improvement.
10:15–11:45 a.m.
Resilient Classroom Series – The A’s to Z’s of Teaching Gen Z
Have you recently found yourself saying “Back in my day, students used to be like…” or “I just don’t understand students anymore!”? This session will help you adapt your course design, assessments, and teaching approaches to better align with Gen Z’s unique motivations, skillsets, and learning preferences.
12:45–1:45 p.m.
Beyond the Scores: Making Student Feedback More Meaningful
Bruno Roy, Student Feedback and Evaluation Coordinator
Student feedback can offer much more than a set of scores. This session will explore practical ways to make feedback more useful, including adding personalized questions, encouraging constructive responses, identifying trends in student comments using AI, and considering when other approaches, such as 360 feedback, may be valuable. We will also discuss recent SLEQ policy changes, including the sharing of results with students.
2–3:30 p.m.
Resilient Classroom Series – Navigating the Emotional Labour of Teaching
Emotional labour involves doing what is socially expected of you in your role, editing your emotions to accommodate the emotions (and sometimes egos!) of others, and taking on undesirable or unrewarding tasks that everyone benefits from, but no one wants to do. This session will explore what emotional labour looks like in the workplace and academia, and how individuals, teams, and supervisors can better support each other’s emotional labour demands.
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Fall Teaching and Learning Workshops (Truro Campus)
