Catherine Rawn

As I develop my teaching abilities, I feel compelled to facilitate opportunities for others to do the same. As is true about teaching, I often learn as much from facilitating as I do from participating. The broad aim of all of these initiatives is to help everyone in our department and university to develop as educators for their current and future roles (including mentor, teaching assistant, instructor), ultimately in the interest of fostering student learning.

University of British Columbia and Kwantlen Polytechnic University

• Invited Keynote Address, CLASS: Conference for Learning and Academic Student Success, 24 October, 2011, University of British Columbia. Title: What I’ve learned that has changed my life.
• Invited Keynote Address, Interuniversity Conference on Education, 15 October, 2011, National event, University of British Columbia delegation. Title: Why should any student care about my class?
• Invited Orientations Professor, Imagine Day, 6 September 2011, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia. Title: Student Success Workshop, with E. Chow (student).
• Invited Speaker, CLASS: Conference for Learning and Academic Student Success, 23 October 2010, University of British Columbia. Title: How to make the most of a Psychology course, with S. Assanand and M. Souza.
• Faculty Advisor, Connecting Minds National Undergraduate Psychology Conference, May 2008, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, Canada. (Advising duties: December 2007 – May 2008)

Psychology Department Initiatives

• Teaching Fellow Development Group facilitator, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012.
• Mentorship Certificate Program for Graduate Students, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012. Program Supervisor (led by graduate students).
• Teaching Assistant Development Day. Developed in 2009 with a team and co-facilitate annually. September 2009, 2010, 2011.
• Teaching Assistant Development Day. Developed in 2005 with a team; I assumed leadership and greatly expanded it with funding in 2008.
• Teaching Assistant Handbook. Developed in 2005 with a team; I helped Lesley Duncan expand it with funding in 2008, and have updated it ever since.
• Mentorship Certificate Program for Graduate Students. Developed in 2008 with Lesley Duncan and Eric Eich; I helped Lesley Duncan facilitate the first iteration in 2008-2009.
• Teaching of Psychology Series for Graduate Students. Developed and led 2 sessions in Fall 2008 for TAs with teaching roles. Topics included managing small group work, lesson basics, and questioning techniques.
• Teaching Smackdown Series. Organized brownbag sessions on teaching and learning topics for faculty and graduate students in 2008 with Eric Eich.
• Teaching Fellowship Distinction. I have developed supporting materials to encourage graduate students to take a more active lead in teaching undergraduate students.
• Introduction to Presentation Skills. 5 March 2003. I developed and facilitated a 1.5 hour session for Clinical Psychology MA students in the context of their Professional Issues seminar.

Graduate Student Facilitator at the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology (CTLT; formerly TAG)

• Presentation Skills Workshop. April/May 2010; 2 days with Roselynn Verwoord.
• Teaching Portfolios for graduate students. April 2010; half day with Lara Aknin.
• Instructional Skills Workshop. March 2010; 3 days with Alison Stewart.
• Marking and Evaluation for graduate students. September 2009; half day with Lara Aknin.
• Instructional Skills Workshop. July 2009; 3 days with Joseph Topornyky, Brad Millington (shadow), and Alex Dauth (shadow).
• Rejuvenating your teaching portfolio. May 2009; half day with Catherine Paul, Judy Chan, and Roselynn Verwoord.
• Presentation Skills Workshop. January 2009; 2 days with Nora Houlahan.
• Recent Results from Student Evaluation of Teaching at UBC. October 2008; half day.
• Instructional Skills Workshop. July-August 2008; 3 days with Alain Musende.
• Diversity and inclusivity. February 2008; half day with Sarah Braid.
• Group dynamics. February 2008; half day with Peter Lelievre.
• Instructional Skills Workshop. January 2008; 3 days with April Rhandawa and Anka Lekhi.