Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning

The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning is pleased to invite the University Community to help us celebrate this year's recipients of VIU’s Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning. These faculty are being recognized for their work to advance VIU's mission and enhance the institution’s impact: they have done so by actively developing new strategies to engage students and foster deeper learning, and by extending their teaching and learning work beyond their own classroom.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients:

Successful teachers are agents of deep change. They can be singlehandedly responsible for altering permanently the way students think, act, and view the world—no matter what their discipline, content, or area of expertise. And no matter their level of learning or place in the curriculum.

A fun, fast-paced “Portfolio Slam” over a celebratory lunch to congratulate participants on the work they have done and show drafts of portfolios developed throughout the week. Opportunities for brief Q and A/feedback for each participant.

This session is part of a 4-day "Portfoliopalooza" designed to offer hands-on sessions to help you prepare your portfolio, whether or not it is for submission to the Recognition of Achievements.

Audience | VIU Campus Community

Participants will continue to draft portfolio statements, reflections on evidence, and frame their portfolios with an eye to integrating any new information from session.  Guidance and feedback will be available from CIEL staff and there will be opportunities for structured faculty peer feedback.

This session is part of a 4-day "Portfoliopalooza" designed to offer hands-on sessions to help you prepare your portfolio, whether or not it is for submission to the Recognition of Achievements.

Audience | VIU Campus Community

Participants will continue to draft portfolio statements, reflections on evidence, and frame their portfolios with an eye to integrating any new information from session.

Guidance and feedback will be available from Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning staff and there will be opportunities for structured faculty peer feedback.

This session is part of a 4-day "Portfoliopalooza" designed to offer hands-on sessions to help you prepare your portfolio, whether or not it is for submission to the Recognition of Achievements.

Participants will draft portfolio statements, reflections on evidence, etc. Guidance and feedback will be available from Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning staff and there will be opportunities for structured faculty peer feedback.

This session is part of a 4-day "Portfoliopalooza" designed to offer hands-on sessions to help you prepare your portfolio, whether or not it is for submission to the Recognition of Achievements.

Audience | VIU Campus Community

A teaching philosophy statement is a reflective document that makes connections between your professional practice, and those thoughts, ideas, and experiences that have led to you becoming the teacher that you are today. This session will focus on the questions that you might ask yourself as you are developing a teaching philosophy statement. We will build on ideas introduced in the Teaching portfolio workshop, but there is no pre-requisite to attend.

A Leadership Portfolio is a reflective record of a faculty member’s involvement in “Instructional Leadership.” Instructional leadership is working beyond the classroom to mobilize colleagues, students, community members or others to achieve shared goals that add value to our work at VIU and to our community.