Dal Events

Panel: The Teaching Dossier

Tue, 20 May 2025 13:00:00 GMT

This session is part of the annual Creating a Teaching Dossier Retreat. Link to learn more and to register (opens in new tab).

Location: Killam Library, B400 and Online
Session Type: Panel
In-person capacity: 20

In this panel session, Dr. James Brenan (Science) and Dr. Michelle Stone (School of Health & Human Performance) will offer their perspectives as previous members of tenure, re-appointment and promotion committees, on what a good dossier looks like, what committees look for, how dossiers are evaluated, etc. A question-and-answer period will follow their brief presentations.

Panelists

Dr. James Brenan, Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr. Michelle Stone, Assistant Professor (Pediatric Physical Activity and Health), Division of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Performance

Beadwork as Pedagogy: Active-Learning Workshop

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:00:00 GMT

This session is full. Please complete the registration waitlist form (opens in new tab).

Tuesday, May 20
1鈥�3 p.m.
Killam Library, Ko鈥檍ua Okuom (in-person)

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.

Info Session: The Components of the Teaching Dossier

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:00:00 GMT

This session is part of the annual Creating a Teaching Dossier Retreat. Link to learn more (opens in new tab).

Location: Online
Session Type: Presentation
Registration is not required.
Link to join the session (opens in new tab)

This session provides an overview of the possible components and sections to include in the teaching dossier. Discussion will also include how the sections should support, and provide evidence for, articulations made in the teaching philosophy statement.

Presenter

Kate Crane (she/her)
Coordinator for the Faculty Certificate in Teaching and Learning
(acting) Senior Educational Developer (Digital Learning)

Info session: Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:10:00 GMT

This session is part of the annual Creating a Teaching Dossier Retreat. Link to learn more (opens in new tab).

Location: Online
Session Type: Presentation
Registration is not required
Link to join the session (opens in new tab)

This info session discusses how to construct a teaching philosophy statement, which is the grounding element for the entire teaching dossier. The session will guide participants through key considerations for writing this element of the dossier, to be able to present a unique picture of oneself as a teacher.

Presenter

Nasim Tavassoli, PhD (she/her)
Educational Developer (Student Development)

Info session: EDIA Statements in the Teaching Dossier

Wed, 21 May 2025 13:00:00 GMT

This session is part of the annual Creating a Teaching Dossier Retreat. Link to learn more (opens in new tab).

Location: Online
Session Type: Presentation
Registration is not required
Link to join the session (opens in new tab)

This session will explore what an EDIA statements is, and how one might articulate it within the dossier. Topics include: positionality statements, EDIA teaching evidence, diversity statements, etc. Participants will begin to articulate a statement for themselves through reflective activities within the session.

Presenter

Shazia Nawaz Awan, Ed.D. (she/her)
Educational Developer (Internationalization & Intercultural Competency)

Peer Review of Dossiers (session A)

Thu, 22 May 2025 17:30:00 GMT

This session is part of the annual Creating a Teaching Dossier Retreat. Link to learn more and to register (opens in new tab).

Location: Online
Capacity: 40
*The link to the online session will be provided upon registration.

The Peer Review of Dossiers workshop closes out the week of sessions on the teaching dossier. After participating in the various sessions about the dossier, participants will now have the opportunity to get feedback on their draft dossiers. The session includes a structured peer review activity, in which participants will swap their drafts with another participant. The session is a great starting place to receive a first round of feedback, especially for instructors readying their files for upcoming TRP processes.

Presenter

Kate Crane (she/her)
Coordinator for the Faculty Certificate in Teaching and Learning
(acting) Senior Educational Developer (Digital Learning)

Peer Review of Dossiers (session B)

Thu, 22 May 2025 20:30:00 GMT

This session is part of the annual Creating a Teaching Dossier Retreat. Link to learn more and to register (opens in new tab).

Location: Online
Capacity: 40
*The link to the online session will be provided upon registration.

*Faculty Certificate participants are only required to attend one session (either A or B).

Presenter

Kate Crane (she/her)
Coordinator for the Faculty Certificate in Teaching and Learning
(acting) Senior Educational Developer (Digital Learning)

Resilient Classroom Series: Pink Ivory Towers 鈥� Being a Woman in Academia

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:00:00 GMT

Wednesday, June 18
10鈥�11:30 am
Killam Library, Room B400*
Link to register for the session (opens in new tab)

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