Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards
The British Columbia Teaching and Learning Council (BCTLC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 West Coast Teaching Excellence Awards. This year’s recipients are: Erin McGuire, University of Victoria Celeste Leander, University of British Columbia Mimi...
Press Release for Stephen McNeil, University of British Columbia Okanagan
The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus is pleased to congratulate Dr. Stephen McNeil on receiving a 2023 West Coast Teaching Excellence Award. This award recognizes Dr. McNeil’s significant impacts on the culture of teaching and learning at UBC Okanagan...
Press Release for Erin McGuire, University of Victoria
Dr Erin McGuire, a professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria (UVic), has been recognized with the Distinguished Teaching Award from the British Columbia Teaching and Learning Council. The award celebrates her reflective and intentional approach,...
Press Release for Celeste Leander, University of British Columbia
Note: This press release was generated with ChatGPT and edited by my current students to demonstrate the potential risks and benefits of emerging artificial intelligence tools in education. Student agency is defined as the process of students to taking ownership of...
Press Release for Mimi Gellman, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Emily Carr University and Art + Design is proud to announce that ECU associate professor Dr. Mimi Gellman is a recipient of a 2023 West Coast Teaching Excellence Award (WCTEA). The prestigious award was launched in 2021 by the BC Teaching and Learning Council with...
Press Release for Anna Atkinson, Vancouver Island University
Dr. Anna Atkinson believes that students learn best when they feel respected and safe. Building community in the classroom is central to the VIU English Professor’s approach, which recently earned her a Provost’s Award for Teaching Design and Practice that Employs...
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...
Acknowledgement
Members of the BCTLC are grateful to live, work, and be in relation with people from across many traditional and unceded territories, covering all regions of British Columbia. We are honoured to live on this land and are committed to reconciliation, decolonization, and building relationships in our communities and schools.
