Registration for TSEP for Educators has now closed. Please contact educatordev@mun.ca if you would like to be added to the waitlist.

The Teaching Skills Enhancement Program (TSEP) for Educators is designed for Memorial instructors interested in deepening their knowledge of postsecondary teaching and exploring instructional strategies for various learning environments.

The program is intended for academic staff members, contractual instructors, postdoctoral fellows, instructional staff and per-course instructors.

Program Goals and Outcomes

The TSEP for Educators has the following goals: 

• Foster student and instructor engagement through effective teaching.
• Build instructor confidence and capacity in teaching abilities. 
• Introduce instructors to theories related to teaching in higher education and how they can benefit their teaching. 
• Stimulate individual reflection and ongoing professional development about student engagement and effective teaching.
• Promote a critical, scholarly and collaborative learning community among Memorial instructors. 

Upon completion of the TSEP for Educators, instructors will be able to:  

• Communicate their beliefs and values related to postsecondary teaching, in a disciplinary context, through a teaching philosophy. 
• Describe theories related to teaching in higher education and how they can benefit their teaching practice. 
• Design course-level learning outcomes and align them with assessment techniques and teaching and learning activities. 
• Revise teaching and learning materials to reflect personal teaching philosophies and student-centered learning principles.
• Develop a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research question relevant to their teaching practices. 

Program Delivery

The TSEP for Educators is a free, eight-week program offered on the St. John’s campus.

Participants will engage with online content in Brightspace and attend weekly 90-minute synchronous sessions. During the program, participants will engage in group discussions, reflect on and write about teaching practices, and provide one another with formative feedback. Learning activities will include reading scholarly articles, contributing to discussions, designing materials to facilitate learning, and practically revising teaching and learning materials for future course offerings. To achieve the program’s learning outcomes, active participation in both the online environment and the in-person sessions is necessary.

At the end of the program, participants will submit a learning portfolio that can be included in their teaching dossier to document their ongoing development of and commitment to effective teaching. Participants will also receive a Certificate of Completion.

Schedule

The next offering of the TSEP for Educators will take place in person on the St. John’s campus. 

Synchronous sessions will take place on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m., January 30 – March 27, 2025. 

How To Register

Registration for TSEP for Educators for the Winter 2025 semester has now closed. Please contact educatordev@mun.ca if you would like to be added to the waitlist.