Lunch & Learn Series: Engaging in Thoughtful Reflection on Student Evaluations of Teaching to Improve Course Design and Teaching Practice with Candice Rideout
This session will be held on Friday, May 7, at noon The feedback students provide on end-of-term Student Evaluations of Teaching (SEoT) surveys can be tremendously valuable – but reading (and interpreting) SEoT reports can be hard. In this session, we will briefly review some of the literature regarding SEoT surveys (including some potential sources […]
Lunch & Learn Series: What is Hybrid? with Gabriel Smith
This session will be held on Friday, April 30 at noon. This week’s Lunch & Learn will be on the topic of hybrid learning. The session will be led by LFS Learning Centre’s Gabriel Smith. Topics that will be discussed are: What does “hybrid” mean to instructors? What does “hybrid” mean to students? How can instructors […]
Lunch & Learn Series: The Three S’s: Students + Skills (and a bit of passion for spice) = Success with Nina von Keyserlingk
This session will be held on Friday, April 9, at noon In this session of Lunch & Learn, Professor Nina von Keyserlingk of LFS will lead a discussion on her approach to facilitating learning in the courses that she teaches in Applied Animal Biology. Her conversations will include anecdotes from her numerous conversations with her sister, Gesa […]
Lunch & Learn Series: Developing an Equity Competency in Sustainable Food Systems Education: Exploring a New Model and Sharing Teaching Activities with Will Valley
This session will be held on Friday, February 19th, 2021 at noon. Addressing social inequities has been recognized as foundational to transforming food systems. Activists and scholars have critiqued food movements as lacking an orientation towards addressing issues of social justice. To address issues of inequity, sustainable food systems education (SFSE) programs will have to […]
Lunch & Learn Series: Easy ways to Improve Student Engagement with Universal Design for Learning with Adrian Granchelli and Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, February 12, 2021 at noon. Univeral Design for Learning is an approach to give students mutiple means for engagement, representation, action, and expression. Encapsulating such a diverse range within your course will help students interact however they feel compelled to. There are easy ways to start adding diversity […]