Need to Know
Free Range
Mirror, Mirror
All in the Same Boat
Backwards Planning
100
The introductory workshop that will get you uploading documents and posting messages using the course management software.
What are the ABCs of Blackboard?
100
The sessions that will you choose to support your professional interests and PD goals.
What are two additional workshops of your choice?
100
A learning opportunity for you and fellow faculty members that will require you to observe others teaching and be observed.
What is Learning Squares?
100
The name of the sessions that you will attend twice per semester to stay connected to colleagues and learning opportunities?
What are New Faculty Seminars?
100
This practice promotes a focus on application of skills, knowledge, and lifelong learning.
What is outcomes-based learning?
200
The names of the faculty who provide support to Blackboard/WebCT users?
Who are Shirley Lesch and Stella Bastone?
200
Learning activities that occur during the eighth week of the Fall semester that are open to all staff.
What is Fall Intersession?
200
The foundational practice that informs Learning Squares.
What is Reflective practice?
200
An employment health and safety requirement that all staff need to complete.
What is WHMIS training?
200
A series of 4 workshops that all new faculty complete to support the adoption of learner-centred practice.
What is the OBL workshop series?
300
The correct number to call when you have a PC problem?
What is HELP (4357) desk?
300
This event brings all staff groups of the College together to celebrate learning during intersession of the winter semester.
What is the Festival of Learning?
300
A culminating reflective document that you will prepare by the end of your probation?
What is a portfolio?
300
The annual gathering for staff groups that occurs in June.
What is the Geneva Park Retreat?
300
A workshop that will help you to design scoring guides for assessment of your students' work.
What is the Designing Rubrics workshop?
400
The service that provides technical support to us with our use of smart-room technology?
What is ITAC?
400
This is the key that will get you into most classrooms at the St James campus.
What is a UI key?
400
An event at the end of the semester to discuss insights gained from observing colleagues' classes.
What is Learning Squares Wrap-Up?
400
The legislation that promotes equity and inclusion in our workplace and places of learning?
What is AODA?
400
Developmental feedback that helps learners adjust their strategies toward achievment of their learning goals and course outcomes.
What is formative assessment?
500
The annual gathering for all staff to launch the new academic year?
What is the President's Breakfast?
500
The College's campus that is underconstruction and slated to open in September 2012.
What is the Waterfront Campus?
500
A 1.5 to 2 page paper that new faculty write at the end of each semester to submit to their Chair and the Director of Staff Development.
What is a reflective paper?
500
Observations of your classes once per semester during your probationary period.
What is Chair classroom observation?
500
A variety of active, collaborative teaching methods that encourage relationship building and address different learning styles.
What is the OBL delivery model?
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