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Explore pedagogy in the Advanced Teaching Seminar

If you are an experienced Langara instructor interested in exploring the practice of teaching and in reflecting deeply on your own pedagogy, then Langara’s Advanced Teaching Seminar will be of interest to you.

The Advanced Teaching Seminar (ATS) was piloted through 2015-17 as an initiative of the Learning and Teaching APAG. It will be hosted this year by TCDC and is now seeking interested faculty.

What are the benefits? What will you gain by joining the ATS? Here is one participant’s personal reflection:

Since the completion of the Advanced Teaching Seminar (ATS) I have felt an increased sense of confidence with teaching. Steve made space for each participant to reflect, discuss, and engage in a way that was meaningful to them. This provided opportunities for deep and substantial learning. I was able to understand and embrace the messiness of teaching. Particularly that as teachers of adults we do not have to have all the answers, and that we are on our own journey of discovery.

Here is a poem written about my experience

I’ve been invited, but feel unworthy
Reading Brookfield and struggling with understanding Telos
I walk back into my teaching role
Encouraged to write stories of success – or failure

My story of exhaustion and sisterly love supports reflection
I see the value in what I do, and how I do it
Reading Brookfield and struggling with understanding Telos
I walk back into my teaching role

Confident in my abilities, confident in my title of experienced teacher
Encouraged to write stories of success – or failure
Willing to reflect and share expertise
I see the value in what I do, and how I do it

I’ve been invited, but feel unworthy
My story of exhaustion and sisterly love enables reflection
I see the value in what I do, and how I do it
Willing to reflect and share expertise

Denise Pawliuk
Instructor – Langara Early Childhood Education

Facilitated by retired Langara instructor Steve Musson, the ATS involves on-line and face to face components. The ATS will meet for four 3-hour face-to-face sessions (2 mornings during December exam period and 2 mornings during April exam period). On-line participation will be interspersed around the face-to-face sessions.

For more information about the Advanced Teaching Seminar, email Carolyn Wing, Educational Development Coordinator in TCDC (tcdc@langara.ca).

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