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Thursday, May 15
1-2:30 p.m.
Marion McCain Building, Room 1116
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鈥淏urnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.鈥� 鈥� Michael Gungor, American songwriter

Along with healthcare workers, social workers, and corporate executives, university instructors are in the top ten professions most likely to experience burnout (Schaffner, 2023). In this in-person session, you will learn how to:

• Define burnout and describe how it manifests amongst instructors
• Identify the signs and symptoms of burnout in yourself and others
• Explain the factors that contribute to burnout in academia (e.g., career stage, systemic conditions)
• Use the four pillars of burnout resilience 鈥� purpose, compassion, connection, and balance (Pope-Ruark, 2022) 鈥� to better manage burnout
• Describe how an equity-minded lens can help address burnout in academia

We will collectively brainstorm actions that can be taken immediately to better prevent and mitigate the impacts of burnout, as well as first steps to chip away at systemic conditions that drive burnout in a university setting. You will use these ideas to begin developing a personalized care plan for addressing burnout.

Presenter

Daniella Sieukaran, MA (she/her)
Senior Educational Developer (Program Development)

Tuesday, May 20
1鈥�3 p.m.
Killam Library, Ko鈥檍ua Okuom (in-person)
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Building on the CLT session offered in Winter 2024 鈥淪torytelling as Transformative Pedagogy鈥�, this active-learning workshop engages Indigenous beadwork as a pedagogical tool and culturally relevant way of expressing knowledge in academia. 

As Anishinaabe scholar and beadwork artist Lana Ray (2016) explains, 鈥渂eading was never understood by Indigenous peoples within the parameters of arts and crafts鈥� (366), but rather as an integral form of knowledge. Beadwork embodies a worldview that challenges colonial and Western notions of knowledge production, while centering community and relationality within the learning process. 

Drawing on post-secondary examples of beadwork learning from mathematics, the social sciences, and law, the first 45 minutes of this session will take the form of a presentation that conceptualizes beadwork as relational pedagogy, illustrating its capacity to challenge traditional power structures in education and to offer an embodied, culturally relevant approach to teaching and learning. 

The remainder of the session will be devoted to hands-on learning, where attendees will participate in a beginner beading lesson led by Indigenous beadwork artist and Dalhousie student Ella Parsons. This experiential component aims to engage participants in the act of creating while deepening their understanding of beadwork鈥檚 potential to shape knowledge, relationships, and transformative educational practices. 

All necessary supplies will be provided.

Facilitators

Ella Parsons (she/they) is an upper-year undergraduate student majoring in psychology with a double minor in Indigenous studies and gender and women's studies. She is mixed n墨hith膩w (Woodland Cree)/settler, and is an avid beadwork artist.鈥�

Rachelle McKay (she/her) is the Centre鈥檚 Educational Developer, Indigenous Knowledges and Ways of Knowing and uses beadwork as a pedagogical tool when teaching INDG 3050: Indigenous Research Methods. 

A series of sessions to help you prepare a teaching dossier, and to get a view into processes entailed in tenure, reappointment and promotion. 

The teaching dossier (or portfolio) is widely used by faculty members and instructors to document their teaching experiences and to provide evidence of the quality of their teaching practice. Teaching dossiers and teaching philosophies are increasingly required for faculty and teaching positions at many institutions. At Dalhousie, candidates for faculty appointments, re-appointment, tenure, or promotion are usually required to submit a teaching dossier as part of the application process.

Learn more about this event and how to register. 

The CLT warmly invites members of the teaching and learning communities of Dalhousie, The University of King鈥檚 College, Halifax, and beyond, to join us in our third annual Transformative Pedagogies retreat.

Our theme this year is Access to Learning: Multifocal Approaches to Accessibility.

Students experience barriers to learning for many reasons and in particular, students of equity-denied groups. This includes, for example, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+++, those with disabilities, and/or non-Christian communities. And many students are from two or more communities, compounding the barriers to, and inequities in, their education.  For this reason, conversations and teaching practices centering 鈥渁ccessibility鈥� must attend to the whole student and to cultivate learning environments wherein all members contribute to accessible, equitable, and socially just education.

Each year, the Transformative Pedagogies Retreat provides an unhurried space for folk to learn, converse, reflect, integrate, and connect with others who share a passion for transformational education. Continuing with this tradition, we are looking forward to having robust and thoughtful discussions and reflections, as the members of the teaching and learning community come together.

Wednesday, June 18
10鈥�11:30 am
Killam Library, Room B400*
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鈥淭here鈥檚 something special about a woman who dominates in a man鈥檚 world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.鈥� 鈥� Rihanna, Barbadian singer and businesswoman

Countless studies have highlighted the many expressions of gender inequality that women in academia face, such as systemic discrimination, precarious teaching contracts, gender wage gaps, negatively biased student evaluations, and underrepresentation in more senior roles (Johnstone & Momani, 2024). In this in-person session, join CLT and Dalhousie鈥檚 very own Rachael Johnstone, editor of Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers: Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy to learn:

• How gender inequality manifests in the daily academic lives of women in academia
• Structural and systemic challenges women academics experience
• How intersectionality influences gender inequality for woman academics (e.g., race, age)

This session will provide a safe space to share personal experiences if you wish. We will collectively explore approaches and brainstorm strategies (e.g., compassionate pedagogy, allyship, social media) that can be used to chip away at the structural and systemic factors that perpetuate gender inequality in academia.

Facilitator

Daniella Sieukaran, Senior Educational Developer (Program Development), CLT

Guest Speaker

Rachael Johnstone, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Intended Audience

• Instructors
• Graduate Students
• Teaching Assistants

*Please note that the B400 classroom is in the basement of the Killam Library. We are aware of, and apologize for, the accessibility barriers associated with this room. If you require the use of an elevator to reach this room, one of the CLT staff will have to access the elevator with you, using their key card. Please let us know in advance so that we can facilitate a smooth and timely transition to the basement.

We also ask that participants be respectful of those with significant allergies and avoid wearing perfume, aftershave, cologne, and highly scented hairspray, soaps, lotions, and shampoos.

Tuesday, July 15
10鈥�11:30 a.m.
Killam Library, Room B400*
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Want to spend LESS time grading and providing feedback? Grading using rubrics has many benefits such as reducing grading time for instructors, and providing clear and consistent expectations to students. In this in-person workshop, you will:

• Learn the purpose and principles underlying grading using rubrics.
• Be introduced to different types of rubrics, the components that make up a rubric, appropriate language to use for rubrics, and the step-by-step process for constructing effective rubrics.
• Participate in a rubric swap! Exchange rubric feedback with a peer. 

Workshop participants are kindly asked to bring one paper copy of a rubric that you are looking to gather feedback on. If you do not have one, a sample rubric will be provided by the workshop facilitator.

Facilitator

Daniella Sieukaran, Senior Educational Developer (Program Development), CLT

Intended Audience

• Instructors
• Graduate Students
• Teaching Assistants

*Please note that the B400 classroom is in the basement of the Killam Library. We are aware of, and apologize for, the accessibility barriers associated with this room. If you require the use of an elevator to reach this room, one of the CLT staff will have to access the elevator with you, using their key card. Please let us know in advance so that we can facilitate a smooth and timely transition to the basement.

We also ask that participants be respectful of those with significant allergies and avoid wearing perfume, aftershave, cologne, and highly scented hairspray, soaps, lotions, and shampoos.

Wednesday, July 16
11 a.m.鈥�12 p.m.
In-Person, Department of Biology Outdoor Learning Space
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Join us for an enriching outdoor discussion that delves into the practices of gratitude, reciprocity, and the generosity of nature as we explore how the gift economy thinking can offer meaningful insights into fostering more inclusive and relational approaches to teaching and learning. 

Drawing from the inspiring work of Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi Nation), we will reflect on her vision of abundance and interconnectedness both in the natural world and human relationships. We highly recommend attendees read Robin Wall Kimmerer鈥檚 The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024)  or listen to (link opens in new window) in preparation for this session.

Through this session, we aim to explore how principles of reciprocity and gratitude can be meaningfully translated into teaching and learning contexts. How can we nurture environments that encourage generosity, mindfulness, and interconnection, both in educational spaces and beyond? What lessons can we learn from nature鈥檚 abundance, and how might we apply those lessons to our own practices of teaching and learning?

We invite all participants to join in an open and reflective discussion, sharing ideas, experiences, and insights that may help us collectively imagine more generous and sustainable ways of living and learning.

Facilitators

Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Director Centre for Learning and Teaching
Rachelle McKay, Educational Developer 鈥� Indigenous Knowledges & Ways of Knowing

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The aim of this hands-on, in-person workshop is to introduce key techniques in qualitative data coding and analysis using NVivo software and/or Excel. Participants will gain essential tools to organize, code, and draw meaningful insights from their qualitative data. During the session, you鈥檒l learn how to prepare your data and explore foundational coding techniques, such as in-vivo and thematic coding, to categorize and understand your data more deeply. Through interactive exercises, participants will identify themes and patterns and create a codebook that enhances clarity and consistency throughout the coding process. Additionally, we鈥檒l briefly discuss reliability coding principles in qualitative research.

Bring your own data, or use provided sample datasets for hands-on practice if you don鈥檛 have data prepared.鈥�

Please bring a laptop computer with you to this workshop.

Facilitator

Dr. Nasim Tavassoli 鈥� Educational Developer (Student Development) with the CLT鈥�