New workshop series explore AI, Anti-Racist Pedagogies, and Experiential Learning

New for the 2023-24 academic year, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching is hosting several new workshop series for faculty and contract lecturers. These workshops will cover crucial and emerging pedagogical topics, further reinforcing the Centre’s commitment to developing inclusive teaching practices that enrich the student learning experience.

Anti-Racist Pedagogies Workshop Series

This engaging new workshop series is designed to boost educator’s confidence in creating and refining learning environments that address racism, promote justice, and motivate students to confidently champion change beyond the university. From navigating complex conversations about race and racism in the classroom to building anti-racist principles into the foundations of STEM education to making the connections between universal design and anti-racism, these workshops are a space to exchange insights and practices that help you initiate, cultivate, and enhance your practice to bring justice into the classroom, no matter your field or expertise.

Artificial Intelligence Workshop Series

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) brings both challenges and opportunities to teaching and learning. Through this workshop series, faculty and contract lecturers can develop a deeper understanding of the technology itself, learn how to leverage the technology, educate students on ethical use, and implement strategies to detect unauthorized use of GAI.

The Fundamentals of Experiential Learning (FuEL) Workshop Series

As the emphasis on experiential learning (EL) continues to grow at Toronto Metropolitan University, it is becoming increasingly important to offer our students creative and valuable opportunities through multiple expressions of EL that reflect academic excellence.

The Fundamentals of Experiential Learning (FuEL) Program is designed to provide participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills required to design and facilitate high-quality, meaningful, relevant, equitable, and inclusive EL opportunities. 

Grounded in the core defining aspects (CDAs) highlighted in Senate Policy 169, this program will guide participants through the design of academically relevant EL opportunities that produce meaningful outcomes for all involved. The FuEL Program will be utilizing a decolonial, equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility (D/EDIA) lens, and will provide participants with support and opportunities to deepen their D/EDIA knowledge and praxis as it relates to EL.

Participants of the program will attend a series of four interactive workshops, including three pedagogical and one partnership-based workshop. All workshops are scheduled to be in-person and will be held in the Active Learning Classroom (ALC). 

This program will be open to all faculty, contract lecturers, and EL staff at Toronto Metropolitan University interested and/or currently engaged in the development and delivery of experiential learning opportunities.

If you have any questions about the above-listed series, please contact the Centre at teachingcentre@torontomu.ca.

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