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Preparing your dossier panel & workshop

Instructor Network Leadership Team (InLET) Presents:

Professional Development Event ~ Preparing Your Tenure & Promotion Dossier

Thursday April 20, 2017, 9.30-11.30am

UBCV Campus Rm 3074 Orchard Commons

UBCO Campus Rm SCI 331

 

Introduction:

The InLET is very pleased to be offering this workshop to help instructor/educational leadership stream faculty gain insight into the process of developing a thorough and concise dossier for promotion purposes. The speakers will focus on how we navigate the different departmental demands as there is no university standard. The various ‘Table of Contents’ used by the speakers will be addressed as well as the areas that provided the most challenge. The session will end with breakout groups where attendees will have the opportunity to discuss a problematic section of their dossier, while the speakers shadow the discussion.

Agenda and Speakers:

  •      Welcome and Introduction – 5 mins
  •      Dr. Harry Hubball – 20 mins
  •      Panel of dossier experiences and examples – 45 mins

○      Dr. Christina Hendricks

○      Dr. Steve Wolfman

○      Dr. Jackie Rea

  •      Q and A – 20 minutes
  •      Workshop  – 30 mins – A chance to share an issue you are struggling with in your dossier in a group context. The speakers will shadow the groups and offer some guidance.

 

Dr. Harry Hubball

Professor & National Teaching Fellow, Canada

Chair, Academic Program Director: International Program for the Scholarship of Educational Leadership

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Faculty of Education
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy

Dr. Hubball will present on the scholarship of educational leadership, the dossier process and content, and putting it together.  His introduction will be followed by the panel of speakers, indicated below, who will share their dossier experiences and products.  The workshop will finish with a question and answer period and opportunity to discuss ideas and challenges of your dossiers.

Dr. Christina Hendricks

Professor of Teaching, Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Dr. Steve Wolfman

Professor of Teaching, Department of Computer Science
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Dr. Jackie Rea

Senior Instructor, Arts Studies in Research and Writing (ASRW) and Vantage College
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver

 

Resources from the session

We were not able to record this session, but we do have some resources to share.

Slides

Jackie Rea showed slides with some suggestions, which you can see in PDF format here: Rea Dossier Presentation (PDF)

Harry Hubball shared his slides from the session, which are about the Scholarship of Educational Leadership Certificate Program at UBC: Hubball SoEL slides for dossier workshop (PDF)

 

Online Portfolios

Steve Wolfman shared his online portfolio materials, which you can see here along with his speaking notes for the day: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~wolf/tnp/

Christina Hendricks shared her online portfolio, which you can see here: http://chendricks.org/portfolioarchive  This is the portfolio as it looked when she submitted it for promotion to Professor of Teaching; this version has not been updated since then. A somewhat more updated portfolio can be found here: http://chendricks.org/portfolio

 

Other Resources

Here is some information on work that Simon Bates (Academic Director, CTLT) has been doing around trying to clarify “Educational Leadership” and how we might give evidence of impact: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/programs/all-our-programs/teaching-and-educational-leadership/

The following are draft documents about the ongoing process to try to develop a Teaching and Learning Impact Framework. These are not finalized; they will be altered in the future. Please see the above link for final versions when they are ready.

 

 

 

Panel discussion on peer review of teaching

December 2016

This panel discussion aimed to help participants be more informed and proactive throughout their own PRT process by clarifying procedures around PRT, as well as showcasing best practices, support and existing models at UBC. Mark Schaller (SAC) discussed the significance of PRT at the SAC level. Simon Bates discussed CTLT’s Peer Review of Teaching Initiative and the support it offers for formative and summative PRT.  Paul Bartha (Philosophy) and Sunita Chowrira (Botany) presented the PRT practices used in the tenure, promotion and reappointment processes in their respective departments.

Though attendance was hampered in part by snow, we recorded the event and you can see it on YouTube, here: https://youtu.be/jkPJz1xSI60

Upcoming Symposium on SoTL at SFU Harbour Centre

We thought many instructors would be interested in the following symposium at SFU Harbour Centre, downtown Vancouver, coming up in November. The link below also provides information on proposing a presentation.

Deadline for proposals is Sept. 21, 2014!


 

BCcampus, along with colleagues from Teaching and Learning Centres across the province, would like to invite you to join us in Vancouver for the first Provincial Symposium on Scholarly Inquiry into Teaching and Learning Practice on November 14, 2014.

This day includes a variety of keynote speakers, presentations, and opportunities to learn more about conducting inquiries into personal teaching and learning practices. The event will take place at SFU Harbour Centre. Registration is $40, and limited to 100 people, so register early!

Please share this with your faculty colleagues, librarians, instructional staff and anyone else you think would be interested in presenting or attending.

For more information and to register, please go to http://open.bccampus.ca/symposium-on-scholarly-inquiry-into-teaching-and-learning-practice/

UBC Faculty Certificate Program in SoTL

I just finished the UBC Faculty Certificate Program in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It’s a year-long workshop in which participants meet monthly and do a number of things, including:

• Create an extensive teaching dossier (next year this will be entirely online), including statements of teaching philosophy, reflections on teaching, evidence of teaching effectiveness, leadership in curriculum/pedagogy/scholarship of teaching and learning, and more

• Engage in peer review of teaching: visit two other classes and have two people visit your own

• Read and discuss articles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and keep a monthly journal of reflections on these readings

• Develop your own research project in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, with help from the workshop’s facilitators and other workshop members; do a presentation on this project to the group and get feedback; write a proposal for the project. You don’t actually have to complete the project that year by collecting data–there is not enough time to do that! But you go through the work of developing it and then can collect data afterwards.

I found it a fantastic experience, and recommend it to anyone. It seems especially valuable for Instructors, as work in SoTL can be part of advancing towards Professor of Teaching.

It does mean a significant amount of work, though; in addition to once-monthly meetings of three hours, one must do all the above things from Sept. to April. There are scholarships available, and I got one of those to use to pay a grad student to help with anything from marking to my administrative work to helping with the SoTL research project itself, so that helped me handle the extra time the workshop took.

Here is an announcement of the application and deadline for 2012-2013. Note that internal Faculty deadlines may be earlier (e.g., the deadline for the Arts Faculty is May 1), since the Faculty may be selecting among candidates first–I think that’s how it works.

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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Leadership Program

We are now taking applications for the next cohort offering (September, 2012 – April 2013) – DEADLINE = MAY 4th. Please see the Certificate website for more details about the on-line application process and the Teaching Scholarship Scheme:
http://ctlt.ubc.ca/about-isotl/programs-events/faculty-sotl-program/administrative-and-application-details/