Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning

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.

Post-secondary classrooms have traditionally been highly private places, but a growing number of VIU faculty members are opening theirs up, to create opportunities for feedback and discussion. A few of them have shared their thoughts publicly:

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.

VIU’s Recognition of Achievements in Teaching and Learning was collaboratively designed with feedback from faculty members serving on VIU’s 2016 – 2017 Council on Learning and Teaching Excellence. This initiative acknowledges and celebrates faculty who have implemented strategies and activities in their classrooms related to one of four topic areas: