This first afternoon session will welcome you to the FDSI and offer an overview of the next three days.  You'll have a chance to meet other participants and share your expectations for the Institute.   We will end our first session with a welcome reception.

1:00  Registration  - Room 205 in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building 

1:30-2:15  Welcome and 1st class  

2:15-4:15  Session 1 – Why active learning? 

  Session 2 - I wasn't trained for this: How and Why we don't embrace active learning in our courses.   

4:15-5:00  Reception and Welcome  

Supper on your own

from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm 

Our first full day will introduce questions around why we should be interested in employing active learning in our physical classrooms and online learning spaces.  Lunch is provided. 

Here's what we have planned for Day 2:   

8:30-8:45 Coffee – 8:30  Let’s begin! -- 8:45 

8:45-9:00 Re-cap and debrief   

9:00-10:00  Session 3 - Naming our values: what drives our teaching? 

10:00-10:15 Session 4 - SoTL Moment: Accessibility 

10:15-10:30 Break  

10:30-11:15 Session 5 –  Beyond Good Intentions: EDI in the Classroom  

11:15-12:00 Session 6 - A Scavenger Hunt: Looking for Instructional Resources 

12:00-1:00  Lunch   

1:00-2:15  Session 7 – Nuts and Bolts: Syllabi and Learning targets 

2:15-2:30  Break time   

2:30-3:00  Session 8 – Who's on your syllabus and how does it matter? 

3:00–3:45  Session 9 – Application: Pulling it all together 

3:45-3:55   Interlude - Start-Stop- Continue

3:55-4:00 Wrap up – Bingo!   

Dinner on your own  

from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm followed by dinner together at 5:00

Putting active learning into action will be our focus for day three.  We'll have lots of opportunities to consider how to incorporate what we are learning into our teaching practice. Lunch is provided. Our day of learning will be rounded out with a celebratory meal together. 

Our Day 3 sessions will look like this: 

8:30-9:00 Coffee – 8:30  

Re-cap and debrief – 8:45   

9:00-10:00  Session 10 – Joy of Learning 

10:00-10:15 Break time   

10:15-11:15  Session 11 –  A glance in the mirror: self-reflection 

11:15-11:45 Session 12- SoTL Moment: Cultivating reflective students

11:45-1:00  Lunch  

1:00-1:10 Interlude - 2 Minute Rant

1:10-2:15  Session 13 – “The instructor didn’t really teach”

2:15-2:30  Break time   

2:30- 3:30 Session 13 cont'd

3:30 -3:45  Recollect the day   

3:45-4:00  Wrap up – Bingo!  

4:00-5:00 Free time  

5:00-7:00 Celebratory Dinner - Location: Papa Joe's Restaurant, 345 University Avenue

from 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Feedback, assessment and evaluation are important components of teaching and learning, especially so when using active learning approaches.  A question we will address as a group on day four is how to make using active learning sustainable for ourselves as educators. Lunch is provided.  And indeed, there will be a graduation of sorts before we wrap up the Institute.

Here's what we are planning for Day 4: 

8:30-9:00  Coffee – 8:30  

Re-cap and re-visit – 8:45  

9:00-9:55  Session 14: Assessment and more

10:00-10:15  Session 15: SoTL Moment - Circle Rubric and decolonizing assessment 

10:15-10:30  Break time   

10:30-12:00  Session 16: (Re)Design an assessment 

12:00-1:00  Lunch   

1:00-1:20  Session 17: Difficult dialogues and taboo topics 

1:20-1:55 Session 18: A glance in the mirror (continued)

1:55-2:15 Session 19: Actioning Active Learning on your own

2:15-2:30 Honouring what has happened, celebration and presentation of certificates