
The 2022 West Coast Teaching Award Winners’ Top Tips live!
What a way to start 2023. Last year's winners really pay it forward in this wonderful presentation! Watch the recording below or watch it by clicking here.

West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards 2023 – Call for Nominations
The BC Teaching and Learning Council (BCTLC) is pleased to open the call for nominations for the West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards. The West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards recognizes exemplary teaching in public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia....

Press Release for Larry Leung, University of British Columbia
The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is pleased to announce that assistant professor of teaching Larry Leung is the recipient of the British Columbia Teaching and Learning Council’s West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards....

Press Release for Dr. Lyn Baldwin, Thompson Rivers University
Lyn Baldwin is a science educator and plant ecologist whose aim is to help her students make meaningful change in their communities. Her exceptional contributions to teaching and learning include using place-based and creative approaches to connecting students with...

Press Release for Dr. Paola Ardiles Gamboa, Simon Fraser University
VANCOUVER/COAST SALISH TERRITORIES – Senior lecturer Paola Ardiles is a well-respected educator at Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), where she exemplifies community-engaged scholarship, decolonial teaching practices along with...

Press Release for Dr. Awneet Sivia, University of the Fraser Valley
The University of the Fraser Valley's reputation for teaching excellence was recognized when Professor Awneet Sivia was named a West Coast Teaching Excellence Award winner, as one of the province's top teaching professors. Dr. Sivia is an education specialist teaching...

Press Release for Dr. Matthew Beedle, Coast Mountain College
Coast Mountain College would like to congratulate Professor of Geography in the Environmental Geosciences Program, Matthew Beedle Ph.D., on winning the first-ever West Coast Teaching Excellence Award. Coast Mountain College is privileged to be situated in some of the...

British Columbia honours the province’s top professors for teaching and learning
The British Columbia Teaching and Learning Council (BCTLC) is celebrating great postsecondary teaching on the west coast of Canada. The BCTLC has selected five postsecondary educators for their excellence in teaching with the West Coast Teaching Excellence Award. The...
BCTLC Position Statement on Academic Surveillance Technology
This piece was collaboratively written by BCTLC members and shared by co-Chairs 2020-22 Dr. Anne Sommerfeld (UNBC) and Dr. Paula Hayden (College of New Caledonia). This past year has brought numerous changes to teaching in higher education. One rapid change involved...
June 2017 Happenings
Welcome to new BCTLC Executive Members for 2017/18: Co-Chairs: Theresa Southam (Selkirk) and Maureen Wideman (UFV) Chairs Elect: Janni Aragon (UVic) Past Chair: Vivian Forssman