Educational Development

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This page of my portfolio briefly describes some of my current educational developer (ED) responsibilities and activities at the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, where I am a member of the Teaching and Learning Professional Development team.

The CTLT initiatives I am most deeply involved with are:

Formative Peer Review of Teaching Initiatives

What: CTLT Formative Peer Review of Teaching Program (PRT) provides opportunities for people to build skills as peer reviewers, explore alternative peer review processes, discuss challenges, share resources, and learn from each others’ expertise and ideas.
My role: Lead, design, and advance formative peer review of teaching initiatives to support members of the UBC community in their professional growth.

Specifically, I:

  • Manage and promote the CTLT formative peer review of teaching program
  • Work with individuals, departments, and programs interested in implementing PRT
  • Lead workshops to help participants develop skills as peer reviewers of teaching
  • Build online resources relevant to the peer review of teaching

I have been involved with CTLT’s PRT program since 2008.

Teaching Development Program (TDP) for New Faculty

I am part of a team that collaborates to design and implement the TDP, an 8-month program for new faculty at the UBC-Vancouver and UBC-Okanagan campuses. I am currently the co-lead of that program.

Educational Leadership

Though the Educational Leadership “track” has been in existence for over 10 years at UBC, there continues to be a need to build our collective understanding of what educational leadership is.I have been involved in supporting this endeavour. Also, in my consultation work, I frequently support faculty in articulating their EL contributions and crafting their narrative.

Consultations  

I regularly conduct confidential one-on-one consultations with instructors who are growing in their roles as teachers and educational leaders.  Topics include:

  • How to respond to student feedback on my teaching?
  • Course design
  • Developing my educational leadership
  • Creating a teaching philosophy statement and/or teaching dossier
  • Preparing to submit for tenure/promotion
  • and more….

As a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation, I bring a coaching approach to my consultations.

Teaching Portfolios  

I regularly provide feedback to faculty members on their teaching portfolios. I also develop the Teaching Portfolio section of the CTLT website.

Facilitation

As part of my educational development work, I facilitate workshops and processes relevant to enhancing teaching and learning in higher education. I have facilitated workshops on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to: peer review of teaching, learning-centered syllabus, and course goals and learning objectives. For a partial list of workshops and processes I have facilitated while working as an educational developer at UBC, see here.

Course Design Intensive

I am a core member of the planning and facilitation team for the Course Design Intensive (CDI), a 3-day workshop for instructors seeking to design or re-design a course.

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Note 1: I began my work as an educational developer in 2003, with the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth (now CTLT).  For a brief description of initiatives I was involved with at CTLT between 2003-2013, see here.

Note 2: From 2013-2015, I had the pleasure of working at the Office of Educational Support and Development in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Please see here for details of my work during that time period.

Photo by Giulia Forsythe (Flickr)