Teresa Dawson

About

I am a teaching professor and a former director of UVic's Learning and Teaching Centre.

My areas of interest include effective teaching assessment, faculty and graduate student professional development, supporting and enhancing diversity in the academy, and achieving teaching and learning-related institutional change, particularly regarding curricular reform.

I am a lead author for the 2009 Teaching College Geography: A Practical Guide for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty from Prentice Hall and a co-editor of Teaching and Learning Community Based Research: From Pedagogy to Practice published in 2014 by the University of Toronto Press.

Regionally, I was co-founder in 2007 of the Vancouver Educational Developers Alliance (VIEDA). Nationally, I am past chair of the Educational Developers Caucus and served for 10 years as a member of the Board for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE).

Interests

• achieving teaching and learning-related institutional change
• the scholarship of teaching and learning
• supporting and enhancing diversity (including accessibility) in the academy
• academic program design and development
• effective teaching assessment using teaching portfolios
• the student experience (including first year transition and program capstones)
• mentoring new colleagues

Teaching

• Intro to Human Geography
• Community Mapping
• Personal Space: Exploring geographies of gender, sex and identity

Publications

 Teaching and learning publications:

• A Guide to Program and Curricular Planning at UVic
• Course Mapper tool

Faces of UVic Research video