CETL Reflections, Tips, and Quotes | Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC)

December 2021

CETL Quote of the Week – Dr Chng Huang Hoon

I learn what it means to respect the students’ perspective, to learn to listen and understand the way they look at an issue.

Posting date: 17-Dec-2021

CETL Quote of the Week – Dr. Mollie Dollinger

Student-staff partnership is all about relationships. Forming a strong connection with the students will help them care, and be passionate about the topic. This connection will help sustain the project even the project fund runs out.

Posting date: 4-Dec-2021

November 2021

CETL Quote of the Week – Dr. Kathryn Sutherland

In an ideal situation, a genuine partnership should involve three parties: students, teachers, and academic developers. Sitting together for a conversation on the T&L issues concerned is a useful starting point to establish common values/principles for the partnership.

Posting date: 27-Nov-2021

CETL Tips of the Week – Student-staff partnership

What is student-staff partnership?

It is “a collaborative, reciprocal process through which all participants have the opportunity to contribute equally, although not necessarily in the same ways, to curricular or pedagogical conceptualization, decision-making, implementation, investigation, or analysis” (Cook-Sather, Bovill, & Felten, 2014, pp. 6-7)

How can we enable student-staff parnerships?

1. Foster inclusive partnerships
2. Nurture power-sharing relationships through dialogue and reflection
3. Accept partnership as a process with uncertain outcomes
4. Engage in ethical partnerships
5. Enact partnership for transformation

Reference:

Matthews, K. (2017). Five propositions for genuine students as partners practice. International Journal for Students as Partners, 1(2). https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/article/view/3315

Posting date: 20-Nov-2021

CETL Quote of the Week – Dr. Giedre Kligyte

Partnership spaces cannot be constructed, engineered, or forced into being, they emerge when we can encourage the process and share the responsibility with our students.

Posting date: 10-Nov-2021

October 2021

CETL Quote of the Week – Dr. Melvin Chan

Motivation is not a fixed trait. It is malleable and can be nurtured by supportive learning environments. Without motivation, students struggle to accomplish long-term goals. With the right motivation, students can make up for their initial weaknesses.

Posting date: 28-Oct-2021