NC faculty are invited to participate in a fun and informative research event focused on resiliency, hosted by the Centre for Academic Excellence Jan. 22 and 30.
The research will explore faculty resilience at Niagara College, including the personal (e.g. sense of purpose) and contextual resources (e.g. relationships with colleagues) that faculty utilize to foster their resilience. The evening will seek to engage a sample of part-time and full-time Niagara College faculty in a World Café discussion to:
- Define resiliency in teaching at the College
- Identify the personal and external resources that foster their resilience
- Share the specific situations/dominating factors that challenge their resiliency as faculty
- Describe the role of the institution in supporting faculty resilience
Full-time and part-time faculty are invited to attend a workshop to share their perceptions of resilience and the strategies they use:
- January 22, 5-7pm – Full-time Faculty – Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus (Room W212)
- January 30, 5-7pm – Part-time Faculty – Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus (Room W212)
Click here to learn more and register.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for you to engage with your faculty peers in an open informal setting, take part in engaging conversation, reflect on interesting questions focused on resilience, and participate in a workshop style you could try in your own class(es).
Participants will have a chance to win a $100 gift certificate for Niagara-on-the-Lake Outlet Collections. Light refreshments will be provided by Benchmark restaurant.
What is the World Café?
The World Café methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. There are five components that comprise the basic model of how it’s organized.
- Setting: The environment is most often modeled after a café, with snacks and small round tables and no more than five chairs at each table.
- Welcome and Introduction: The host begins with a warm welcome and an introduction to the World Café process, setting the context, sharing etiquette, and making participants comfortable.
- Small Group Rounds: The process begins with the first of three to five twenty minute rounds of conversation for the small group seated around each table. At the end of the twenty minutes, each member of the group moves to a different new table.
- Questions: Each round is prefaced with a question specially crafted for the purpose of the World Café.
- Harvest: After the small group discussions, individuals are invited to share insights or other results from their conversations with the rest of the large group.
This research is approved by the Niagara College Research Ethics Board. The data resulting from the research may be published in reports, professional and scholarly journals, and/or presentations to conferences. The results will also be shared with Niagara College’s executive team.
