This fall, the Teaching and Curriculum Development Centre (TCDC) will be hosting an in-person book club on Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies: An Act for Reconciliation and Anti-Racist Education by Jo Chrona. […]
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Book of the Month: Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection & Renewal
The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal (2017) By Parker J. Palmer with Megan Scribner. Published by Jossey-Bass. You’re nearing the end of term: the grading and student […]
TCDC Spring Book Club – Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal
This Spring, the Teaching and Curriculum Development Centre (TCDC) will be hosting a book club on Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal by Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD. The book […]
The Role of Memorization in Learning: An excerpt from Remembering and Forgetting
In her latest book, Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology, Dr. Michelle D. Miller examines the role of memory and attention in how we teach and learn, and […]
EdTech & TCDC Fall 2022 Book Club
How important is memorization to learning? Are our devices making us dumber? How can technology be used strategically in our classrooms? This fall, EdTech and TCDC are co-hosting a book […]
TCDC’s Summer Book Club: Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
The summer semester book club selection, Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum, promises to give us much food for thought […]
TCDC Book Club: The New Education (T222) 4:30pm
As we look toward the spring 2020 APAG conference with the theme of Future Thinking, TCDC’s book club choice is centred on that very theme: future directions in post-secondary. We […]
TCDC Book Club: Creating Self-Regulated Learners
Do you ever wish your students would spend just a little more time reviewing graded papers, exams, homework assignments and practice quizzes to identify and address gaps in their understanding? […]
Real Voices Make it Stick
A multidisciplinary group of Langara faculty members from the TCDC book club gathered regularly to discuss and unpack myths about learning while uncovering new strategies for increasing knowledge retention and […]
Langara Book Club: Indigenous Storywork
Leading up to this year’s APAG conference, join the Langara Book Club to explore keynote speaker Jo-Ann Archibald’s Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit. Dr. Archibald, also […]
