While difference is often used to polarize people and inspire fear, difference is also a great source of strength and resilience. Join us for the third annual SIETAR BC Unconference to explore the many ways that we find strength through difference. This event is sponsored by Langara College For more information or to REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sietar-bc-unconference-finding-strength-through-difference-tickets-54499762256 […]
Category: Events & Workshops
TCDC Book Club: Make It Stick
Would you like to find out how to help your students (and yourself) learn more effectively and increase knowledge retention? Would you like to discover some new learning and practice strategies that can be applied right away in your class? In Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, two psychologists and a storyteller, Henry […]
Maximizing Student Engagement through Classroom Configuration
Whenever I walk into a classroom to deliver a class or a workshop, I contemplate what I want the students or participants to do, and as such, will I need to reconfigure the classroom space to be conducive for the learning activities I have planned? Do I want to move the classroom furniture around, and […]
TCDC Workshop: The Expert Blind Spot
“Knowing something and teaching something are two different somethings” – Kevin Tumlinson Following a term of what felt like a teaching rut, I started to examine what was behind this change, and I realized I was falling into the same trap that caught me when I first started teaching. When most of us start as […]
TCDC Book Club: How Learning Works
Ever wondered how students’ prior knowledge (or misunderstandings) and the ways they organize new information impact their learning? Curious about what factors motivate students to learn? Want to know more about which types of practice and feedback actually enhance learning, or how you can help your students become self-directed learners?
Making Sense of Open Education – cross Canada mini-MOOC
From June 1-15, 2018, a cross-Canada mini-MOOC (massive open online course) called Making Sense of Open Education will take place through the OpenLearn UK Moodle platform. The course will consist of short daily lessons and activities at an introductory level. The purpose of the course is to increase awareness and use of open educational resources […]
Bridging Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Western Ways of Doing Research – Event at Science World
Bridging Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Western Ways of Doing Research This panel discussion will aim to bridge Western ways of knowing with Indigenous ways of knowing and will be open to a wider audience interested in science as well as visiting students, SBQMI faculty, staff, and students. The moderator of the panel will be […]
TCDC Fall Events
Join TCDC and sign up for any of the multiple events being offered this fall. If you have any questions, feel free to contact tcdc@langara.ca
Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education Series
Interested in learning more about Indigenous histories, perspectives and worldviews and how to incorporate concepts in your classroom? Using UBC’s MOOC (Massive Open On-line Course) “Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education Series”, TCDC is once again offering 6 two hour sessions on the topic of advancing reconciliation in classrooms, through the teaching and learning of Indigenous ways […]
Copyright Workshops
The library will be offering two great copyright workshops this Fall semester. COPYRIGHT FOR EDUCATORS Wednesday September 27, 12:30-1:20, T226 Have you ever copied an article for your students? Posted a YouTube video to D2L? Added an image from Google to your lecture slides? If so, you’ve shared copyright-protected content. Fortunately for us at Langara, […]
