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The Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)

The Teaching and Learning Enhancement (TLE) team facilitates Instructional Skills Workshops (ISW) throughout the academic year at Bow Valley College. Developed in 1978, the ISW is an internationally recognized program designed to improve the teaching and learning process and certified facilitators from around Bow Valley College. It is an intensive 4 day workshop (24 hours) that will bring together your colleagues to review basic ideas about teaching, check current teaching practices, and within the safe environment of the workshop, try new strategies and techniques. A certificate of achievement will be awarded upon successful completion of the workshop.

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Workshop Goals

By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

  • use instructional objectives to inform learners about what they are expected to learn
  • write a useful, practical lesson plan
  • evaluate what has been learned in relation to your instructional objectives
  • use simple techniques during your lessons to test learning
  • conduct a highly participatory classroom session
  • use the common instructional aids
  • use good questioning techniques during a classroom session
  • give objective feedback
  • feel more competent and confident as an instructor

What will I be doing?

During the central days of the workshop, each instructor prepares and conducts three 10-minute “mini-lessons.” The instructor then receives written, oral, and video feedback from the other participants on the effectiveness of the lessons, and then sets new performance objectives.

Participants are encouraged to engage actively as learners while the other participants teach, and to give and receive honest, helpful, non-judgmental feedback.

Participants are strongly supported in their efforts to experiment with different teaching techniques, and to teach from different learning domains, to different learning styles.


What will I gain?

Through the workshop, you will gain the opportunity to:

  • work closely with your peers to develop your skills.
  • practice a variety of instructional techniques.
  • receive valuable feedback from your peers immediately following your lesson.
  • recharge your “batteries.”

Who can benefit from the workshop?

All instructors can benefit:

  • New instructors who would like to learn from others with more experience
  • Experienced instructors who would like to share their experience with others.
  • Instructors who want to increase the sense of community by connecting with their peers in a meaningful, collaborative way.
  • People who are committed to giving quality instruction, from any content area.
  • People who would like to vary their teaching styles.

Upcoming Workshops

Winter Term

  • Monday, February 27, 2012 (8:30 am - 3:30 pm)
  • Friday, March 02, 2012 (8:30 am - 3:30 pm)
  • Monday, March 05, 2012 (8:30 am - 3:30 pm)
  • Friday, March 09, 2012 (8:30 am - 3:30 pm)

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT THE TEACHING AND ENHANCEMENT TEAM AT 403.463.9284 OR tlc@bowvalleycollege.ca.

YOU CAN REGISTER THROUGH ONLINE THROUGH AGRESSO.