Catalysts: A Conversation Series on Teaching
This is a series of conversations with UofA teaching award winners on their trials and triumphs in teaching. Led by the award winners themselves, the series is meant to provide a forum for celebration, conversation and reflection about teaching practices. Everyone is welcome to come and learn from some of our best teachers.
Past Catalysts Sessions
2016
- Developing Student-Teacher Relationships
Christine Hughes, Beverly Kula, Glen R. Loppnow and Carla Peck
October 18, 2016
- Teaching-Intensive Academic Positions at Research-Intensive Institutions: Why We Need Them
Yoram Apelblat, Roger Graves, Frances Plane, Fahim Rahman, Frank Robinson and Candy Sloboda
May 6, 2016
- Measuring Teaching Scholarship: What do we value?
Suzanne Kresta
April 11, 2016
2015
- Balancing Home and Profession (recording unavailable)
David Chorney, Dominic Sauvageau, Adrienne Wright and Charles Lucy,
November 27, 2015
- Care and Teaching of First Year Students
Robyn Fowler, Charles Lucy, Hassan Safouhi and Olenka Bilash,
September 29, 2015
- Epic Fails II: Learning From Our Teaching Mistakes (recording unavailable)
David Barnet, Eric Rivard, Nese Yuksel and Carla Peck,
March 24, 2015
- Ask Me Anything!
Suzanne Kresta, Paul Lu, Brian Maraj and Alex Brown,
February 25, 2015
- Two Great Ideas - from Four Great Teachers (recording unavailable)
Margaret-Ann Armour, Clive Hickson, Hassan Safouhi and Billy Strean,
January 26, 2015
2014
- Scholars at Risk: Scratching Old and New Surfaces of Postsecondary Teaching
Jerry Kachur, Toni Samek and Malinda S. Smith
November 7, 2014
- Sensational Sessionals or Catalytic Contract Academics: A Conversation with Four Excellent Teachers
Yoram Apelblat, Joanna Auger, Anne Boerger and Robyn Fowler
October 22, 2014
- Design of Multidomain Demonstrations
Design of Multidomain Demonstrations Creep Video
Design of Multi-domain Demonstrations (PDF)
The Art of Effective Demonstrations (PDF)
Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning (PDF)
Socratic Questioning (PDF)
John Nychka
September 26, 2014
- Blended Learning: Creating New Opportunities for Learning (recording unavailable)
Christine Hughes, Rachel Milner, Peter Sankoff and Sheree Kwong See
April 25, 2014
- Holistic and Exhilarated Learning: Strategies and Philosophies for Transformative Learning
Glen Loppnow and Billy Strean
February 12, 2014
2013
- Undergraduate Research: Not Just A Summer Job!
Erinn Backer, Bonnie Sadler Takach, Kim vanderHelm and Martin Zuidhof
November 6, 2013
- What Is Good Teaching?
Dustin Chelen, Bill Connor, Gerda de Vries and David Kahane
October 24, 2013
- What To Do So That Your Course Doesn't Suck!
Clive Hickson, Candide Sloboda and Alex Brown
September 24, 2013
- Medutainment
Sarah Forgie
May 31, 2013
- Epic Fails: Learning From Our Teaching Mistakes
Olenka Bilash, David Kahane and Charles Lucy
April 15, 2013
- Exploring Examples with Dr. Suzanne Kresta
Suzanne Kresta
March 18, 2013