Workshops we Offer

Inclusive teaching is crucial for fostering equitable and supportive learning environments where all students can thrive. By embracing diverse perspectives, we create an atmosphere that encourages engagement, collaboration, and success for every learner. To support this mission, the Office of Teaching and Learning offers a variety of workshops focused on Inclusive Teaching. Below is a list of the workshops currently available.

To request a workshop, please email us at otl@uoguelph.ca with the workshop title, approximate dates and times, intended audience, and any other relevant information.

Positionality and Curriculum Violence in Building Inclusive Teaching Practice

Description: In this seminar we encourage reflection about inclusive pedagogy not as who is in the classroom but what is our proximity to the axes of difference used to create oppression in our society broadly and education specifically. We also think about institutionally positionality and our specific case at University of Guelph. We are then in a better position to understand how the decisions we make about how we teach and what we teach impact on social justice. We conclude by thinking about curriculum decisions and how those decisions can result in harm to equity seeking communities or aid the process of decolonization and social justice in schools.

Gathering on Decolonization and Indigenization of Veterinary Medical Curriculum

Description: The University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College, and Lakehead University hosted a special gathering focused on decolonization and Indigenization of the veterinary medical curriculum will be held on 20 September 2024. This gathering was facilitated in a hybrid format (online and in person) at the University of Guelph and Lakehead University. The Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) Educational Developer for Indigenous Knowledges and Pedagogies, Cara Loft, acted as facilitator for the day. Cara used traditional Indigenous sharing circle format to facilitate discussions on: Decolonization, Indigenization and Reconciliation. Individual participants shared their individual thoughts around the subject matter; and generated larger group discussion to help move forward thinking around these areas. As well, Cara also opened and closed the gathering in a Goodway using a traditional Indigenous Handdruming and song. The Goodway is a set of principals, and philosophies, within Haudenosaunee culture that brings together the Minds of the participants in order to collectively work together towards a common purpose.