Upon successful completion of all three UTC certificates, participants should be able to:
- Draw on multiple teaching strategies, background knowledge, and reflective insight to adapt practice
- Identify the presuppositions inherent in their teaching practices, change them as needed, justify, and use them to explicitly inform practice
- Evaluate the effectiveness of their own teaching and assessment practices, and courses, in a variety of ways, taking into account contextual variables, and adapt accordingly
- Respond constructively to common issues in post-secondary teaching and learning
- Critically reflect, discuss, analyze, and evaluate educational concepts, beliefs, values, practices, issues, orientations, philosophies, strategies and outcomes to guide practice
- Find and evaluate scholarly information on teaching and learning and use it to guide practice
- Design and use curricula, assignments, and lessons that inspire and support deep learning
- Design effective learning outcomes, aligned with learning experiences and assessment
- Support student learning by building rapport with students, attending to multiple styles or modes of learning, proactively minimizing non-pedagogical conflict, and otherwise creating learning-centred classroom atmosphere
- Formulate answers to fundamental questions of education, drawing on scholarly theory and information where relevant
- Frame and evaluate their teaching practices using a variety of pedagogical orientations, philosophies and theories
- Advise, mentor, and supervise students to effectively support their learning and development, adapting to contexts, needs, and interpersonal styles
- Lead new educational initiatives at the department, faculty, or institutional level – such as curricular reforms and departmental learning communities