If you’re looking for an opportunity to improve or renew your teaching skills then the 3½ day ISW (Instructional Skills Workshop) is an excellent professional development opportunity for you. Working in a fun, safe environment with colleagues from across the College, the ISW is a peer-based workshop designed to improve teaching practice. It also gives you credit towards ID 3102 (Instructional Techniques), one of the courses of the Provincial Instructor Diploma Program.
Program Description
Since 1978, the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) has been a highly effective process by which new and experienced educators at colleges and universities across North America, enhance their teaching skills. The essential idea behind the ISW is to give educators a chance to practice teaching in a friendly environment. In a supportive atmosphere, participants have a chance to try new teaching approaches and to sharpen existing skills. During the workshop, they design and conduct three “mini-lessons” and receive verbal, written and video feedback from their peers. The success of this program relies on the active participation and collaboration of all participants who, as a team, work together to support each other in enhancing their teaching effectiveness. A certificate of completion is awarded to each participant.
What teaching skills will participants learn?
How to design a lesson plan that contains clearly defined steps to improve the clarity of lessons
How to write learning outcomes
Active learning strategies
The reflective process
Learning and teaching styles
Assessment techniques that can be used immediately in the classroom
How to work effectively in groups
How to give and receive constructive feedback
Increased confidence as an educator!
A Typical ISW Includes
A review of important concepts in group teaching situations, such as planning a lesson, increasing participatory learning and providing feedback to students
The opportunity to teach three short lessons in a group setting, and to receive constructive feedback from facilitator and peers
Sessions on a variety of teaching and learning topics such as learning styles, questioning skills, classroom activities and evaluation of student learning
Role modeling of teaching styles by workshop facilitators
Why participate in an ISW?
It is an opportunity to:
Work closely with peers and facilitators from across disciplines to reflect upon and improve your teaching
Practice a variety of instructional techniques in a supportive atmosphere
Receive valuable feedback immediately following your teaching
“Recharge your batteries”
How do I know when my registration is confirmed?
Once you submit the $25 deposit by cheque (see note 2 below), you will receive an email indicating your registration status. Since we do not “hold” spots for the ISW, we strongly encourage you to drop the deposit off as soon as you have received an email indicating that there is space in the ISW for which you have registered.
Your registration is confirmed only when you receive an email indicating that you have a spot reserved in the ISW for which you have applied.
What happens next?
You will receive another email with more details on how to prepare for the ISW.
Note 1: If you have to cancel out of the workshop with less than one week’s notice, or if you are unable to complete the four days of the workshop once it has started, the deposit cannot be refunded. The deposit is refunded only upon completion of the workshop.
Note 2: Instructions:
(a) Please make cheque payable to Camosun College.
(b) Mail or drop the cheque off at the Learning and Teaching Centre (in the Library and Learning Commons), Lansdowne Campus, 3100 Foul Bay Road, Victoria, BC V8P 5J2 (Attention: Carrie Charlesworth)
Instructional Skills Workshop
If you’re looking for an opportunity to improve or renew your teaching skills then the 3½ day ISW (Instructional Skills Workshop) is an excellent professional development opportunity for you. Working in a fun, safe environment with colleagues from across the College, the ISW is a peer-based workshop designed to improve teaching practice. It also gives you credit towards ID 3102 (Instructional Techniques), one of the courses of the Provincial Instructor Diploma Program.
Program Description
Since 1978, the Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) has been a highly effective process by which new and experienced educators at colleges and universities across North America, enhance their teaching skills. The essential idea behind the ISW is to give educators a chance to practice teaching in a friendly environment. In a supportive atmosphere, participants have a chance to try new teaching approaches and to sharpen existing skills. During the workshop, they design and conduct three “mini-lessons” and receive verbal, written and video feedback from their peers. The success of this program relies on the active participation and collaboration of all participants who, as a team, work together to support each other in enhancing their teaching effectiveness. A certificate of completion is awarded to each participant.
What teaching skills will participants learn?
A Typical ISW Includes
Why participate in an ISW?
It is an opportunity to:
How do I know when my registration is confirmed?
Once you submit the $25 deposit by cheque (see note 2 below), you will receive an email indicating your registration status. Since we do not “hold” spots for the ISW, we strongly encourage you to drop the deposit off as soon as you have received an email indicating that there is space in the ISW for which you have registered.
Your registration is confirmed only when you receive an email indicating that you have a spot reserved in the ISW for which you have applied.
What happens next?
You will receive another email with more details on how to prepare for the ISW.
Note 1: If you have to cancel out of the workshop with less than one week’s notice, or if you are unable to complete the four days of the workshop once it has started, the deposit cannot be refunded. The deposit is refunded only upon completion of the workshop.
Note 2: Instructions:
(a) Please make cheque payable to Camosun College.
(b) Mail or drop the cheque off at the Learning and Teaching Centre (in the Library and Learning Commons), Lansdowne Campus, 3100 Foul Bay Road, Victoria, BC V8P 5J2 (Attention: Carrie Charlesworth)