Care by Design: Building Relational Pedagogy into Teaching Practice
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverBeing Kind to Ourselves: The EL-Well Initiative
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverTransformative Pedagogies as a Praxis of Critical Hope
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverBuilding Capacity for the IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community: Confluence and Constellations – Reflecting on an Intersectional Approach to Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver
The First Five Minutes: Starter Activities that Sustain Care, Trust, and Connection in Learning Spaces
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverCHSPR Seminar | Global Trends in Health Worker Protests and Advocacy During and Beyond COVID-19
School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver +1 moreKindness-Informed Pedagogies to Support Justice-Based 21st Century Learning
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver
Week of Events
Celebrating 100 Years of UBC at Point Grey
Celebrating 100 Years of UBC at Point Grey
UBC Library has launched a new pop-up centennial exhibition, on display at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre from September 8 to December 5, 2025. Presented in collaboration with the UBC Alma Mater Society, the Office of the Provost, the Museum of Anthropology, and the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, this free exhibition aims to […]
CTLT Winter Institute
CTLT Winter Institute
The 2025 CTLT Winter Institute will be held December 8-11, both in person at UBC Vancouver and online. This series of workshops invites faculty to pause mid-year to reflect on their teaching practices and their impact on student learning. Participants will have opportunities to share insights, explore evidence-informed approaches, and connect with colleagues across disciplines […]
Care by Design: Building Relational Pedagogy into Teaching Practice
Series: 2025 Winter Institute During the pandemic, many of us showed remarkable care and flexibility—especially in post-secondary education, where everyone had to quickly adapt to online learning. As post-pandemic demands grow, that collective gentleness is harder to maintain. What if care wasn’t something we added only in crisis but built into teaching and learning from […]
Being Kind to Ourselves: The EL-Well Initiative
Series: 2025 Winter Institute The labour of caring for student wellbeing disproportionately falls to Educational Leadership (EL) faculty and particularly to those from equity-denied groups. This labour is often not recognized or supported. Being drained from emotional labour of supporting students’ wellbeing means that EL faculty cannot fully engage in educational leadership activities, nor optimally […]
Transformative Pedagogies as a Praxis of Critical Hope
Series: 2025 Winter Institute University educators are ideally positioned to offer their students what Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, called “education in hope” – a forward-looking, critically aware, and action-oriented understanding of the complexities that affect oneself and one’s society. And yet, educators themselves face their own contentious relationship to hope amidst unpredictable times of austerity, […]
Building Capacity for the IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community: Confluence and Constellations – Reflecting on an Intersectional Approach to Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning
Series: 2025 Winter Institute Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) team at the CTLT is excited to offer another installment of “Building Capacity” a networking, wellness, and educational space offered to the IBPOC identifying teaching and learning community during the CTLT Winter InstituteBuildi. This installment of Building Capacity is grounded in […]
Engaging the Global Past through Relational Course Revision: Reflections on the Impact of Student-Faculty Partnerships
Series: 2025 Winter Institute At UBC, year-long courses are not so simply the sum of two, term-length courses. How, then, might one approach the pedagogical challenge of revising a year-long course into just that—two distinct courses? This was the dilemma that our Student-Faculty partnership embraced as we came together to collaborate, redesign, and split a […]
The First Five Minutes: Starter Activities that Sustain Care, Trust, and Connection in Learning Spaces
Series: 2025 Winter Institute This session offers practical guided examples showing how teachers can use the first few minutes of class to lead starter activities that foster care, trust, and connection, while creating a safe and welcoming learning environment and a sense of community. Participants will gain a toolkit of strategies ready to implement in […]
CHSPR Seminar | Global Trends in Health Worker Protests and Advocacy During and Beyond COVID-19
Speaker: Veena Sriram, University of BC Countries around the world are experiencing health workforce crises, characterized by shortages, burnout and attrition of health workers. Protests by health workers have also gained visibility, exemplified by widespread attention to these actions during COVID-19. Dr Sriram will present findings from research on trends in the use of protest […]
Kindness-Informed Pedagogies to Support Justice-Based 21st Century Learning
Series: 2025 Winter Institute Kindness-informed pedagogies could be a tool for transformation (Magnet et al., 2014) that “challenges learners to see beyond their existing world views to appreciate and value self and others” (Gorny-Wegrzyn & Perry, 2021, p. 228) while centering compassion and critical awareness. In this session, we will explore pedagogies of kindness and […]
Writing Together, Learning Together
Series: 2025 Winter Institute How can collaborative writing transform the way students learn, think, and connect? This 30-minute presentation shares insights from a three-year project exploring “Reading Circles”—a student-led, role-based activity in a first-year research writing course. Using Etherpad, a collaborative online writing tool, students engaged in critical discussions and co-authored texts, fostering deeper understanding, […]
Addressing Student Emotions: Overcoming Hurdles to Classroom Conversations About GenAI Use
Series: 2025 Winter Institute Generative AI This 30-minute online presentation draws from the We’re Only Human TLEF project, which supports faculty in navigating GenAI’s impact on writing-intensive courses. The presentation invites participants to reflect on emotional barriers students face when using GenAI—such as discomfort, ethical concerns, and fear of judgment—and how these affect classroom dialogue […]
Generative AI Studios
These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights presentation […]
OER Funding Proposal Consulting Session
Series: Open Education Are you planning on applying for an OER Fund grant? Register for any of these online sessions to discuss your project ideas and receive feedback and advice on topics such as open resource design, pedagogical approach, copyright and open licenses (Creative Commons), learning technology integration, OER evaluation, accessibility, project scope, and budget development. During these […]
Co-Creating Authentic Learning Through Collaborative Relationships
Series: 2025 Winter Institute This roundtable explores a collaborative teaching approach used in the UBC Master of Occupational Therapy program, where students and faculty co-designed a class on anti-oppressive practice. Participants will reflect on the potential and challenges of integrating student voices in health professions education and leave with strategies for relational, inclusive teaching. Please […]
Belonging as Practice: Panel Discussion on the Impacts of Inclusivity in the Classroom and Beyond
Series: 2025 Winter Institute Inclusive Teaching Join a panel of three UBC teaching faculty members, as well as STEPS Forward Inclusion Facilitators, who together are co-creating meaningful, student-led, and fully inclusive learning opportunities for UBC students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Inclusive Post-Secondary Education is a social movement in Canada to include students with developmental […]
Compassionate Choice in Action: Flexible Assessment for Student Empowerment
Series: 2025 Winter Institute Flexible Assessment, offering students some flexibility on how their learning is assessed, is more than a grading strategy. It centers student voice and fosters inclusive learning environments. In this session, we will walk through how we have used this Canvas-integrated tool to offer students choice in how they are assessed, while […]