The Teaching and Learning Innovation Digest - May 2023
Welcome to a truly special edition of the Teaching and Learning Innovation Digest! Our seventh annual academic publication has assumed an incredibly meaningful shape and form for a number of reasons. Not only did we receive an enthusiastic response with over 30 submissions via our institutional broadcast, but we also have consciously and intentionally embraced the principles of Universal Design for Learning by attempting to represent and celebrate the varied forms of expressions therein. From reflective essays, poetry, visual and performing arts, podcasts, video conversations to scholarly work, academic and applied research, news and updates, and interviews, this is truly a power-packed publication!
Welcome to a truly special edition of the Teaching and Learning Innovation Digest! Our seventh annual academic publication has assumed an incredibly meaningful shape and form for a number of reasons. Not only did we receive an enthusiastic response with over 30 submissions via our institutional broadcast, but we also have consciously and intentionally embraced the principles of Universal Design for Learning by attempting to represent and celebrate the varied forms of expressions therein. From reflective essays, poetry, visual and performing arts, podcasts, video conversations to scholarly work, academic and applied research, news and updates, and interviews, this is truly a power-packed publication!
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WORK INTEGRATED<br />
LEARNING<br />
re/TURN<br />
Allison MacKenzie <strong>and</strong> Felipe Faccioli<br />
Placement Coordinators, School of Hospitality, Tourism, <strong>and</strong> Culinary Arts (SHTCA)<br />
Natasha Cassie<br />
Student, Occupational/Physiotherapist Assistant,<br />
School of Community <strong>and</strong> Health Studies (SCHS)<br />
Teeming hallways as I return to this place<br />
Oh, how strange it is to see your face!<br />
We bounce, we smile<br />
But it will be a while<br />
Until I can feel your friendly embrace<br />
Our teacher’s voice in organic reverb<br />
Echoing in this entity of repopulating suburb<br />
So quaint it is to be in this room<br />
Before now, we were prisoners of Zoom<br />
Join Program Coordinator’s Felipe Faccioli <strong>and</strong> Allison<br />
MacKenzie talk about their p<strong>and</strong>emic solutions for Work<br />
Integrated <strong>Learning</strong> (WIL), including what worked, what<br />
didn’t, <strong>and</strong> what remains to be seen.<br />
Like many schools across Centennial College,<br />
the School of Hospitality, Tourism, <strong>and</strong> Culinary Arts<br />
relies heavily on h<strong>and</strong>s-on, experiential learning<br />
in its curriculum. During the p<strong>and</strong>emic, WIL team<br />
was faced with the daunting challenge of how to<br />
replicate meaningful WIL opportunities in an online<br />
environment. While they quickly learned that it is<br />
impossible to “replicate” a live work environment, the<br />
need to create online WIL options gave them the chance<br />
to craft a customized solution that brings students unique<br />
opportunities that they might not otherwise have gotten to<br />
experience in a traditional work or internship setting.<br />
Allison<br />
Felipe<br />
Good to see you, so great to confer<br />
Though things are not fully back<br />
To the way they once were<br />
A sweet escape from<br />
Isolation <strong>and</strong> mental distortion<br />
As we return to deal with<br />
Our pent-up frustration<br />
As I pen these words onto this page<br />
I recall my longing to re-engage<br />
<strong>The</strong> arrows no longer que our direction<br />
<strong>The</strong>y now point to<br />
Newly refined ideas of perfection<br />
No more competing for scholastic gain<br />
But for love, for life, for joy<br />
As we heal in bitter-sweet refrain<br />
We return to learning, friends <strong>and</strong> camaraderie<br />
Re-imagining what it means to be happy<br />
I’ve missed you my friend, my pal<br />
My buddy<br />
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