Essential Competencies for Instructors

NIC Essential Teaching and Learning COMPETENCIES

DRAFT VERSION: NIC Essential Competencies for Instructors DRAFT

This set of essential teaching competencies was mostly copied from the University of Saskatchewan’s Certificate in University Teaching and Learning – Essential Teaching Competency Rubric and then further enhanced with insights from the following pieces of work:

• Algonquin College
  • What is the Professor of the 21^st Century? – includes a framework with stages and competencies and ‘can do’ statements to explore stages of growth
• BC Digital Learning Strategy
  • BC Post-Secondary Digital Learning Strategy including The BC Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework outlining competencies and literacies for digital citizens, instructors, students etc.
• eCampus Ontario
  • Empowered Educator Resource Book, Anatomy of 21^st Century Educators, Ontario Extend Modules and Dr. Simon Bates – Anatomy of a 21^st Century Educator
• McGill University
  • A Teacher’s Journey which is the ongoing, circular, collaborative and expansive journey of a teacher reflecting, relating, understanding and doing expanding outward in teaching practices which in turn is informed by Teaching by the Medicine Wheel by Dr. Nicole Bell
• Saskatchewan Polytechnic
  • Instructor Competencies: Outlining Excellence in Teaching – articulate the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to be a successful instructor
• Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)
  • Ethical Principles in University Teaching  (U of Alberta version)
• University of British Columbia (UBC)
  • Educational Leadership Mapping Tool – a resource to help instructors plot past and future journeys to see/communicate where you are in the educational leadership landscape
• University of Saskatchewan
  • Learning Charter – outlines ‘Our Journey of Teaching and Learning’, ‘Our Teaching and Learning Pursuits’, and ‘Our Commitments and Responsibilities to One Another’