Collaboration

As a department, we work hard every day to provide quality learning opportunities for diverse adult learners in a variety of contexts through multiple delivery options. We continue to offer a wide range of courses to meet students' training plans. We have pioneered the use of online educational technologies to improve delivery, facilitate open and regular communication with students, and empower students to build and share. To do so, we have sought out partnerships and workshops.  We have assembled our own workshops to develop our own relevant professional development. 

We have made lasting and impactful gains, at times beyond expectations, in supporting students through instruction and assessment.  We have made unit, final and equivalency exams; unit assignments; unit guides; learning activities; instructional presentations and videos; and web sites. We have shaped the student experience, the curriculum, with our efforts to be authentic, meaningful and positive.

We have always made those steps together.

Foundational Learning curriculum development has supported many of those steps and continues to facilitate our further progressions in continuous improvement and engaging students in lifelong learning.  Collaboration holds fast as one of the three keystones of our development model: rapid development, collaboration, and leadership. Our processes for making all of our deliverables, from exams to instructional videos to essays to assignments, require input, development and review from groups of department team members before these products can be approved for official curriculum status.  The curriculum centres offer projects to coordinate product development, solicit funds, engage faculty and staff fully in long lasting and meaningful development.  Project teams are formed with all faculty and staff able to participate according to their interest, ability and commitment. At every opportunity,we celebrate and recognize the work of our capable and compassionate department team.  The curriculum team offers workshops as part of a certificate program so faculty and staff can develop confidence and competence in curriculum development, and receive professional recognition.  With this collaborative focus, the department has laid several key steps making us a centre of excellence in foundational learning.

The curriculum team will continue to make collaboration a priority.  We have launched a collaboration campaign to be carried out throughout the 2013-2014 academic year.  The team will be creating and supporting collaboration opportunities in curriculum development.  We will be organizing retreats for subject-area experts to work together in focused environments and provide qualified substitutes to preserve quality instruction. And we will celebrate.  Each month the centre will present a curriculum superhero award for collaborative development work.  And sing to the world right here on On the Same Page.  Send collaboration opportunity ideas, anecdotes, celebrations to Lindsay Bonenfant and we will do our best to share.

Let's have fun.  Together.

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