Hi LFS Teaching Assistant,
We hope you are doing great and that the term is going well. As part of the faculty’s on-going support for your development, mark your calendars for the upcoming opportunities offered this term.
1) Marking and Assessment Workshops
Are you preparing for midterms, assignments or end of term exams? We wanted to provide a couple of Marking and Assessment Workshops to help support you in providing consistent, fair, and constructive feedback to your learners. These two sessions, one in February, one in March, will provide participants with: i) strategies to ensure that marking is consistent, ii) ways of maximizing reliability between TAs, and iii) practice providing constructive and positive feedback to learners. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
The first Marking and Assessment workshop will be held February 15th from 4-5pm in MCML 170A. Ensure a spot by registering via this link here.
The second Marking and Assessment workshop will be held March 22nd, from 4-5pm FNH 300. Ensure a spot by registering via this link here.
2) Community of Practice
Having a space to share insights or troubleshoot issues is an important part of your professional development. Our Community of Practice space is an informal get together of TAs once month over lunch. We’ve proposed the following topics for the remainder of the term, but are always open to other suggestions for discussion or people who you want to hear from!
- Feb 22nd (1230-130pm) in MCML 170A – Proposed Topic – TA Award (Shelley Small)
- March 13th (1230-130pm) in FNH 220 – Proposed Topic – Early Alert (TBD)
- April 10th (1230-130pm) in FNH 220 – Proposed Topic – Wrapping up your TAship (Jun/Colin)
3) Instructional Skills Workshop – VIP Access
We still have four (4) LFS TA priority (No waitlist) spots left for Instructional Skills Workshop. ISWs offered for Graduate Students at UBC are in high demand and waitlists for each workshop are typically 80–100+. Please consult this link for upcoming dates that would work for your particular schedules. Email us to reserve you spot.
Colin and Jun
Faculty of Land and Food Systems | Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the UBC Farm
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