Community Engaged Teaching Fellows
The Community Engaged Teaching Fellows cohort provides faculty and educators a pathway for designing new community engaged educational experiences for students on the UBC Vancouver campus. This cohort program is designed to build capacity for faculty to advance teaching and scholarship by building networks among like-minded faculty across academic disciplines, enhancing knowledge of community engaged teaching and curriculum development, and drawing upon the expertise of all present, to advance community engaged teaching and research opportunities.
How it works: Faculty interested in advancing community engaged learning or community engaged scholarship are asked to express their interest by contacting the Centre for Community Engaged Learning. All interested faculty must be willing to commit to attending five in-person sessions in August focused on sharing teaching and learning ideas, exploring values and typologies of community engaged learning, and advancing best practices. There is a small Advancing Community Engaged Learning (ACEL) grant of up to $5000 awarded to each Fellow, to enable the effective development and delivery of the course, program, or other opportunity devised through participation in the Fellows cohort.
| Sessions | Themes & Topics |
| 1) Introduction: Goals process and overview | Overview of community engaged learning pedagogy and the Fellows program |
| 2) Processes and principles | Values, typologies and principles of community engaged learning |
| 3) Course design and partnership | Aligning a community’s strength with course objectives |
| 4) Student reflection & assessment | Learning outcomes (intellectual, social, and emotional) |
| 5) Community engagement as scholarship | Defining and creating roadmaps for engaged scholarship |
If you are a UBC faculty member interested in joining this cohort program please contact the Centre for Community Engaged Learning at community.learning@ubc.ca.