UFV Teaching & Learning is excited to host ConnectED 2025 on Wednesday, May 7, from 8:30 am to 4 pm on the Abbotsford campus.
ConnectEd is a day for building connections, engaging in teaching and learning experiences, and creating opportunities for transforming education, one conversation, idea, and action at a time.
The theme for this year’s ConnectED is Teach, Learn, Transform — Building Experiential and Innovative Pedagogies of C.A.R.E. We chose this theme for the way it situates teaching and learning innovation in the nexus between care, agency, and community.
We invite you to submit a proposal here for one of the following options:
1) Micro-Teaching
This session is a 15-minute ‘teach’ to model an engaging strategy, tool, approach, pedagogical innovation, assessment, resource, or instructional technique that supports student learning. A total of three micro-teach sessions will take place in a 50 minute session.
2) Teaching and Learning Experience
This session is a 40-minute lesson/activity demonstrating interactive methods, hands-on engagement, collaborative approaches, and/or place-based experiences. Participants will engage in the session as ‘learners’ and receive materials/templates/resources to adapt to their own disciplinary areas. The presenter will facilitate a 10-minute post-lesson debrief within the 50-minute session.
3) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
This session is a 20-minute scholarly presentation on research into teaching and learning within disciplinary fields followed by 5 minutes for questions and answers. The presenter(s) will share past or current research, methodological designs, and discuss the results and impact of this research on their teaching and learning practices. Two presentations will take place within this 50 minute session with time for questions and discussion.
4) Community of Practice (CoP)
Presenters/Facilitators will host a 50-minute focused discussion around an existing CoP that they are leading or participating in, or propose a new topic of interest, a ‘problem of practice,’ innovation in teaching and learning, transformative approach, or educational concern and challenge. The Community of Practice model, which can be facilitated in a variety of ways, allows participants to contribute to and generate ideas about how to address the topic(s) under discussion.
For more information, contact Michelle Andrus at michelle.andrus@ufv.ca
03/03/2025