Teaching Days

Location:
TI 110

Presenter: 
Christine Martineau

Description:
Bring your course syllabi to explore ways to more deeply engage with and meet the expectations of UCalgary's Indigenous Strategy.

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Location:
TI 160

Full Title: 
By Design: Applying UCalgary's Principles for Assessment of Student Learning

Presenters: 
Kim Grant, Roxanne Ross and Brenda McDermott

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Full title: 
Addressing Gaps in Academic Skills: Embedding Self-Regulated Learning & Academic Literacy In-Class for Student Success

Location:
TI 118/120

Presenters: 
Corinne Vessey and Steve Mason

Description:
In this session, participants will be invited to identify and discuss academic skills that their students regularly struggle with or where gaps in their knowledge exist. Practical strategies and approaches to imbedding academic literacies and self-regulated learning skills in classes will be offered, as well as an introduction to a new campus-wide initiative aiming to build academic and writing skills for undergraduate students, including equity-denied populations who can experience additional barriers to accessing resources and skill-building opportunities.

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Location:
TI 140/148

Presenter: 
Sreyasi Biswas

Description:
This session is specifically for new instructors and new sessional instructors.

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Location:
TI 118/120

Presenter: 
Fouzia Usman

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Location:
TI 140/148

Presenters: 
Sreyasi Biswas and Tyson Kendon

Description:
This panel brings together educators from across multiple disciplines to examine how students in different disciplines are engaging with AI in their course-based research problems and what educators want them to understand about these discipline-specific uses. Panelists will explore what foundational knowledge students need before incorporating AI into their research practice. Key topics will include understanding AI's capabilities and limitations, recognizing when AI-generated content requires verification, maintaining academic integrity while using AI assistance, and developing critical thinking skills as AI reshapes research practices. 

The discussion will address educators' concerns about students using AI in research, including challenges in teaching fundamental research skills, difficulties in evaluating authentic student work, and the risk of students applying AI tools without understanding their disciplinary appropriateness or limitations. Interdisciplinary insights will showcase how different disciplines address these issues, offering a comprehensive perspective on how AI integration as a research tool varies across disciplines.

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Full title: Beyond Prompting: A Human-Centred Model for GenAI Literacy in Teaching and Learning

Location:
TI 118/120

Presenter: 
Soroush Sabbaghan

Description:
As generative AI becomes part of everyday teaching and learning, instructors need more than prompt-writing strategies. They need a practical way to help students decide when, how, and why GenAI should be used. This interactive workshop introduces a human-centred model of GenAI literacy organized around four connected capacities: agency, attunement, accountability, and awareness. 

Participants will examine how these capacities map onto four dimensions of GenAI literacy. Agency asks whether GenAI should be used at all. Attunement asks how GenAI should be used in the context of learning. Accountability asks what responsibilities students and instructors carry when using AI. Awareness asks what broader consequences follow from GenAI use in classrooms, disciplines, and society.

Rather than treating AI literacy as a technical skill alone, the session will help instructors design small classroom activities that support student judgment, transparency, and responsible use. Participants will leave with a simple framework they can adapt across disciplines, along with sample prompts and activity structures for integrating GenAI literacy into existing courses. 

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Full title: Insights and Strategies: A Q&A with Award-Winning Educators on Issues in the Classroom

Location:
TI 160

Presenters: 
Patti Dyjur, Ayesha Mian Akram, Fabiola Aparicio-Ting and Estacio Pereira

Description:
In this panel session, three UCalgary teaching award recipients will offer their ideas and strategies on your puzzling classroom problems. Bring your questions about issues in the classroom to the session and get sensible advice from award winners!

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Full title: Creating a Supervision Dossier: Making Graduate Supervision Practice and Impact Visible

Presenter: 
Michele Jacobsen

Location:
TI 118/120

Description:
Graduate supervision is a complex and high-impact form of teaching, mentoring, and scholarly collaboration across disciplines. A Supervision Dossier helps faculty members make this critical educational and scholarly practice visible, intentional, reflective, and evidence-informed while recognizing the significant contributions supervisors make to student learning, research development, and academic communities. 

This interactive workshop will support faculty members from across disciplines in making their contributions to supervision visible by developing a Supervision Dossier. Supervisors will begin / enhance their process of documenting and reflecting upon their supervisory philosophy, practices, approaches, and their contributions to graduate student learning and success. 

Participants will explore how to articulate their supervision philosophy; document mentoring, teaching, and scholarly development practices; and gather meaningful evidence of supervisory effectiveness and impact. The workshop will also examine how supervision dossiers can be designed in support of applications for merit, tenure and promotion, supervision awards, leadership roles, and reflective professional growth. 

Topics include: 

• Developing a supervision philosophy statement 
• Documenting supervisory roles, practices, and mentoring approaches 
• Identifying evidence of student learning, development, and outcomes 
• Reflecting on inclusive, relational, and ethical supervisory practices 
• Demonstrating contributions to scholarly communities and graduate education leadership 
• Organizing and presenting dossier materials for different institutional processes

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Presenter: 
Adela Kincaid

Co-Presenters: Isabella Frey, Jordanna Young, Mitchell McGinnis, Holly Anghel, Teagan Young, Rhian Sanderson, Priya Migneault, Samayra Slade and Aurora McDougall. 

Location:
TI 160

Description:
Join Adela and the student team to learn about student perspectives on undergraduate involvement in research. The group is currently working on a range of projects, primarily focused on animal-human relationships, and using a braided approach to learn and teach about local species. This approach respectfully engages with Indigenous and Western knowledge systems, creating space for learners to connect with multiple ways of knowing, fostering critical thinking, empathy, and intercultural understanding. The student projects aim to develop transdisciplinary understandings of various animals, and the ecological, social, and cultural relationships that they maintain.   

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Full title: TBD

Presenter: 
 

Location:
TI 110

Description:
 

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Full title: Theory and practice of critical reflection: What we learned from instructors and students at UCalgary

Presenters: 
Maria Victoria Guglietti, Lisa Stowe, Joshua de Guglielmo and Grace Herasymuik

Location:
TI 118/120

Description:
What does critical reflection look like in UCalgary classrooms, and what are students experiencing? What can we learn from this evidence? 

This workshop offers participants an introduction to critical reflection and an overview of how it is taught and learned at UCalgary. The first part will focus on what critical reflection is, how it differs from other kinds of reflection, and how the DEAL model (Ash & Clayton) can assist in the design of critical reflection assignments. The second part will draw on findings from a UCalgary study launched in 2024 that examines how instructors and students approach critical reflection assignments. What models and strategies are commonly used? How do instructors approach assessment? What is missing from these approaches? The third part explores student experiences with critical reflection: what critical reflection assignments offer and what students feel is still missing from their learning. 

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Presenters: 
 

Location:
TI 110

Description:
TBD

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Presenter: 
Alexis Handford 

Location:
TI 140/148

Description:
Visuals aren't just decoration - they boost student engagement, improve content comprehension, enhance course wayfinding, and give your course a polished, professional feel. In this interactive workshop, UCalgary instructors and course designers will get practical experience with the tools available to make it happen. We'll walk through how to access UCalgary's own curated image collection, use your UCalgary Colourbox license to find high-quality visuals, and how to add the official D2L visual land acknowledgement banner to set an inclusive, respectful tone in your course. We'll also get creative - exploring GIF makers for lightweight animations and AI image generation tools to produce custom graphics that fit your content perfectly. Leave with real skills, ready-to-use assets, and a D2L course that looks as good as it teaches - no graphic design experience needed. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops to take part in the in-session activities.

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