Sylvia Currie

Congratulations for getting many steps closer to having a solid teaching philosophy statement! Please join me in thanking Sue Hellman for designing and facilitating this adventure - all volunteer and hugely appreciated!

For those of you who persevered you've received feedback that will help you to refine your statements. It makes me think we need a part 2! For others who chose to quietly reading along that's ok! Active does not always mean visible. It's time well spent and completely expected in MicroCourses.

This course will remain available to you (forever if I have my way), so feel free to come back to revisit anytime. One way to continue to notice and reflect while reading is to use the annotation tool. Here's a summary view of annotations so far.

You will have received a course evaluation via email on Friday and perhaps a reminder today. Please take a few minutes to let us know about your experience.

Our next MicroCourse is scheduled for February 18 - 22, 2019. More details will be available in the new year so keep an eye on the BCcampus calendar and sign up for the newsletter.  If you'd like something fun to engage in right now check out the 12 Apps of Christmas! 

Your grateful FLO facilitators,

Sylvia and Sue

It’s Day 5, and we’re almost there!

If sticking to a suggested timeline today is all about giving and getting feedback, and maybe even posting a refined TPS if you've progressed to that point. Some ideas for today:

• Review the teaching philosophy statements posted to to the Sharing Forum. It might spark ideas if you're still chipping away!
• Offer feedback. It can be quick or elaborate, very personal or objective, but should aim to be specific and constructive. The checklists in 4b can help to guide you. 
• Try the forum annotation tool. It's an easy way to post your thoughts in the margins as you read. Select a range of text in the post, hit 'enter' (or click in the right margin) then start typing in the box on the right. There's also an annotation summary view. 
• Haven't posted your TPS? Go for it even if it's a "drafty draft draft" as Colleen put it. There's no such thing as being too late.
• Ask those final burning questions in the Open Forum

MicroCourses often spill over into the weekend, and they remain open for you to revisit at any time.

Happy Friday!

Sylvia and Sue

I saw this tweet + image from Isabeau Iqbal right after reading Gina's comment about how many times Leonne said "like". It got me thinking that it could be a creative way to begin writing a TPS. Start with 10 minutes of free writing then run it through a word cloud generator to see what stands out. 

Write your #teachingphilosophy statement with support from @BCcampus . Free course, online. Starts today: https://t.co/MmNhOLx973 @UBC_CTLT #highered #FacDev pic.twitter.com/s6Bl4zrdO5

— Isabeau Iqbal (@isabeauiqbal) November 26, 2018

The FLO MicroCourse, Write your teaching philosophy statement, runs for five days beginning TODAY! There are 17 of us so far, representing 8 post-secondary institutions and several private organizations.

In an effort to make it easier for you to jump into the process where you feel you need details and support, this course is organized using "tabbed" pages. They are numbered for the sequential types, and titled for the cherry pickers. 

There is a lot of content in this MicroCourse, and many, many links to additional reading. It's perfect for those of you wanting to really dig in, but if you're a skimmer that's okay! It's possible to write your teaching philosophy statement draft using only the salient guiding tidbits.

Questions? Ask anything, anytime in the Open forum.

Your facilitators,

Sue Hellman & Sylvia Currie

What a mighty group of community builders! We've generated quite a collection of activities to grab and use in our own practice. And the course summary shows 160+ contributions over the week. That includes all of your excellent feedback and community-building creations. 

Please join me in thanking Colleen Grandy and Gina Bennett for their excellent facilitation. These MicroCourses offer a way for FLO facilitators to practice skills and experience team facilitation -- a capstone activity before taking the lead on future FLO courses. Colleen and Gina were very much part of the the planning and design of the course as well -- all volunteer and hugely appreciated!

Before you leave...

We say 5 days, but please feel free to tie up loose ends this weekend. You may also have bookmarked useful tools, articles and websites that would pump up our Resource Collection. I always find it interesting to browse the forum annotations as well. This course will remain available to you forever (if I have my way :-)), so feel free to come back to revisit anytime.

You will have received a course evaluation via email on Friday. Please let us know about your experience!

Our next MicroCourse is:

Write your teaching philosophy statement - November 26 - 30

Sign up before the start date and also complete the pre-course survey prepared by Sue Hellman to help with planning.

Your grateful FLO facilitators,

Sylvia, Gina, and Colleen