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CUE’s Instructor Orientation & Welcome

(for all CUE faculty members, sessionals, and ASO’s)

Monday, August 23, 2021

Online via Google Meets (links provided below in the agenda)

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

9:00 – 9:30 am              Opening Remarks –  meet.google.com/mdx-fizv-gqd

• Dr. Tim Loreman, President and Vice-Chancellor
• Opening Invocation and Smudging Ceremony with Elder Theresa Strawberry and Arlene Twin
• Dr. Valerie Henitiuk, Vice-President Academic and Provost

 9:30 – 9:45 am              Break

9:45 – 10:30 am            Breakout into sessions (please attend a session of your choosing)

Session 1 – Mental Health & Wellness – Dr. Barb van Ingen – meet.google.com/xwn-uvym-gjj

Dr. Barb van Ingen, CUE’s Vice-President, Student Life and Learning and a Registered Psychologist, will present on helping instructors prioritize their own wellbeing and learn more about supporting student mental health and wellness. The presentation starts with a discussion of mental health and wellness and looks at ways to promote resilience. The training then provides advice on how to recognize and respond to a student in distress and how to refer students to supports.

• Faculty Referral Guide: https://documents.concordia.ab.ca/page/site/employee-resources/document-details?nodeRef=workspace://SpacesStore/6c7cfc7f-1a2e-4cbe-840c-732578524388

Session 2 – Office of Teaching and Learning – Dr. Daniel Braun – meet.google.com/imp-apdu-orw

30-minute CUE Stew

Prepare for the most intense 30 minutes of your professional career! This session will walk you through a stew of tips, strategies and ideas intended to get you excited and confident about 2021/22 at CUE. We’ll touch on resources for instructors, first-day strategies, flexible and blended delivery, student engagement, and more. Come hungry and ready to learn!

 Session 3 – Office of Teaching and Learning – Deanna Deveau – meet.google.com/zmv-hdew-bjz

In this session I will take 30 minutes to show you the basics of using Moodle. You’ll learn how to navigate the system, organize your semester, and learn some best practices for adding content to your course. There’s something for seasoned Moodle users as well! I’ll show you how to set up Moodle’s Lesson Activity so you can create learning pathways to scaffold and sequence your content.

10:30 -10:45 am           Break

10:45 – 11:30 am         Breakout into sessions (please attend a session of your choosing)

Session 1 – Mental Health & Wellness – Dr. Barb van Ingen – meet.google.com/xwn-uvym-gjj

Dr. Barb van Ingen, CUE’s Vice-President, Student Life and Learning and a Registered Psychologist, will present on helping instructors prioritize their own wellbeing and learn more about supporting student mental health and wellness. The presentation starts with a discussion of mental health and wellness and looks at ways to promote resilience. The training then provides advice on how to recognize and respond to a student in distress and how to refer students to supports.

• Faculty Referral Guide: https://documents.concordia.ab.ca/page/site/employee-resources/document-details?nodeRef=workspace://SpacesStore/6c7cfc7f-1a2e-4cbe-840c-732578524388

Session 2 – Office of Teaching and Learning – Dr. Daniel Braun – meet.google.com/imp-apdu-orw

30-minute CUE Stew

Prepare for the most intense 30 minutes of your professional career! This session will walk you through a stew of tips, strategies and ideas intended to get you excited and confident about 2021/22 at CUE. We’ll touch on resources for instructors, first-day strategies, flexible and blended delivery, student engagement, and more. Come hungry and ready to learn!

 Session 3 – Office of Teaching and Learning – Deanna Deveau – meet.google.com/zmv-hdew-bjz

In this session I will take 30 minutes to show you the basics of using Moodle. You’ll learn how to navigate the system, organize your semester, and learn some best practices for adding content to your course. There’s something for seasoned Moodle users as well! I’ll show you how to set up Moodle’s Lesson Activity so you can create learning pathways to scaffold and sequence your content.

11:30 – 12:00 pm         Social gathering – Group Chat/Questions (note new link)- meet.google.com/qve-zgim-kap

 (facilitated by the CUE Instructor Orientation Planning Committee)

 Additional Notes:

• Please log into all the sessions through your Concordia account
• A copy of the agenda including all the meeting links as well as a CUE Instructor orientation PowerPoint can be found in Alfresco here (note: this is not meant to be a comprehensive information document just a starting point for instructors)