TFAC050 - Instructional Skills Workshop
Course Description
In the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW), you'll embark on a three-day immersive journey dedicated to enhancing your teaching expertise for face-to-face learning.
Course Outline
This participatory workshop celebrates your existing instructional techniques while encouraging you to explore new methods. Through interactive sessions, you'll learn and apply effective teaching skills, fostering an active and engaging learning atmosphere. Expect to participate in innovative activities, facilitate mini-lessons and engage in peer feedback sessions to refine your teaching approach.
Learner Outcomes
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
- Give and receive effective and appreciative feedback to improve each other’s teaching
- Develop lesson plans that support and guide the use of participatory instructional strategies and techniques
- Effectively use a variety of instructional strategies and techniques
- Facilitate participatory learning experiences
- Understand adult learning preferences and diversity
- Incorporate elements of the RRU Learning and Teaching model or other organizational or institutional teaching and learning frameworks into teaching practice
- Engage in reflective practice
Notes
- Each of the three days is an intensive seven-hour day. You must attend all three days in their entirety to complete the workshop. You should also expect to spend some time for preparation prior to each day.
- Please note that our ISW includes a self-paced online learning module of preparatory learning (approx. 5 hours) that all participants are expected to complete before Day One.
- For RRU Faculty and Staff: This course is available at no cost for RRU core faculty, associate faculty, and staff. If you are RRU core faculty, associate faculty, or staff, please contact facdev@royalroads.ca for a discount code.
- For more information on this course please contact facdev@royalroads.ca.