Certificate Title: Career Advancement Through Teaching Documentation (CATD)
Description:
Career Advancement Through Teaching Documentation (CATD) brings together the necessary components to successfully document your teaching in various forms. In this certificate you will learn how to build your dossier/portfolio with substantial and relevant evidence that highlights your capabilities as an instructor. You will gain useful strategies on how to obtain feedback from students and peers, from yourself, and from literature. As well, you will practice writing an essential component of most job applications today, the teaching philosophy/narrative statement. By the end of the certificate, you will have your teaching dossier/portfolio with an aligned and authentic teaching /narrative statement and all components required to maintain a living document that you will continually use during your career.
The asynchronous certificate is mastery and outcomes based, designed to be completed in 30 hours. However, you will have six months to complete, so that you can proceed through the certificate at the rate comfortable for you. You will receive feedback from Dr. Cynthia Korpan on your completed portfolio/dossier. Once you have satisfied all learning outcomes required to successfully complete this certificate, you will be issued your certificate of completion and a letter outlining the competencies and learning outcomes you achieved (as detailed below). All materials required to successfully complete the certificate are provided through the learning management system.
Who is the certificate developed for?
Anyone interested in documenting their teaching in an authentic and evidence-based way.
Competencies:
You will demonstrate your ability to:
- Take a self-study approach to documenting your teaching that is –
- authentic,
- evidence-based,
- developmental, and
- critically reflective.
- Apply thematic analysis to your data that is –
- objective,
- foregrounding the data,
- triangulated, and
- determines the most salient characteristics of your teaching.
- Develop an evidence-based teaching dossier/portfolio that is –
- coherent,
- transparent, and
- well-structured.
Certificate Learning Outcomes (CLO)
By the end of the certificate, you will:
- Critically examine your underlying beliefs, assumptions, goals, conceptions, and pedagogical approaches to teaching and student learning.
- Explain the value of an evidenced-based philosophy/narrative statement.
- Recognize the scope of evidence that can be attained about your teaching.
- Apply thematic analysis to teaching data.
- Expertly develop an evidence-based teaching dossier/portfolio.
Certificate Plan
The certificate is comprised of one module.
Cost:
Total cost: 1 module = $247.00 USD or $325.00 CAD for the complete certificate
To register for this certificate, go here:
Testimonials:
The courses I have taken from Cynthia have provided me with a theoretical foundation that I use to better understand how to design classroom environments that promote learning. That foundation gives me an improved capacity to articulate pedagogical concepts so that I can perform effective literature searches to continuously improve my own teaching methods. Being able to engage literature effectively then gives me more confidence to take risks and evolve my courses at a faster rate.
Former faculty member student
Dr. Korpan is very skilled in online teaching and learning, using many effective options for learning in that environment and was able to give fulsome and helpful feedback to all students. Cynthia’s knowledge of learning and teaching in university settings is extensive. Her skills as an educator ensures that her courses and classes are organized, interesting, interactive, and engaging.
Peer colleague
Cynthia is a great instructor. Very knowledgeable about the subject matter. Good choices for assessment. Highly student–centered (i.e., not lecture–based) course activities. One of the best courses that I have taken or observed. Overall, she is a fantastic instructor and role model for teaching.
Former graduate student
Dr. Korpan is a delight to work with and is genuinely sincere, open, and considerate. She brings extensive research experience to her work and simultaneously helps others thrive in their own teaching and scholarship of teaching. Above all else, she understands educational excellence from a variety of perspectives: her extensive understanding of the research in the field; her own research studies and editing experiences; her program-building capabilities; and her hard work and innovation.
Peer colleague
Cynthia Korpan, PhD
Director
ITeach: Certification in Higher Ed Inc
About me
I have over 20 years experience in Educational Development in Higher Education and over 35 years related to workplace learning. As the former Director of Teaching Excellence at the University of Victoria, I garnered significant experience in developing programs and courses, teaching undergraduates, graduate students, and professors, and mentoring many about learning and teaching in higher education. In 2017, I was honoured with the Educational Developers Caucus Leadership Award for my national work related to educational development. My research focuses on early career academics’ first teaching in the academic workplace. This work and my expertise have been and continues to be shared with institutions around the world, such as Canada, the United States, China, Uganda, Pakistan, and Ghana.
