Teaching
Resources for Instructors
This page is aimed at Social Sciences faculty members, instructors, and department/program leaders. For student-facing resources, please follow the link to the student-facing experiential learning page.
Career-Focused Teaching Resources
Invite Careers Staff to Class Contact Cindy
Cindy Schooley, Career Advisor, or other members of the Careers & EE team are ready to attend your class session, in-person or online, to deliver career information or engage students in in-class workshops.
Fund a Career Speaker Learn More
Funds are available to support you in providing an honorarium to any alumni visitors or other relevant guests who present class to contribute to broadening student understanding of career paths.
Highlight Career Options View Information
The Careers & EE team has developed program-by-program career option pages you can share with students or use in your teaching.
Skill Development Resources
Share Skill Resources Visit the Skills Page
The C&EE team has created a skills-focus page area you might wish to use in your course planning, teaching, or student support.
Invite a Trainer or Facilitator Learn More
Resources are available to help to pay the invoice for, or give an honorarium to, a skills-focused trainer or experiential facilitator giving your students a hands-on workshop experience.
Experiential Teaching Resources
Plan Experiential Learning Explore Types
The phrase ‘experiential learning’ is a buzzword that often causes instructors confusion and aggravation. The Careers & Experiential Education team has designed a resource page to help you untangle the terms and articulate your teaching designs clearly.
Fund an In-Course Experience Learn More
If you are designing a simulation, field experience, field trip, or other hands-on career-development or experiential-learning element in your course, there are modest resources available to help.
Get Support via MacPherson Open in a New Tab
In addition to Soc Sci Careers & EE team supports, instructions in the Social Sciences can draw on the resources, funding, and staff support of the MacPherson Institute for Teaching and Learning.
Other Related Resources
Your teaching goals may also include additional dimensions or priorities not covered above. These additional resources and supports may be helpful:
Students, Staff, and Scholars, Stimulating Equity (S4E) Microgrant View on Equity and Inclusion Site
McMaster’s Equity, Diversity, and Anti-Oppression Program is piloting its first EDIA focused microgrant program, Students, Staff, and Scholars Stimulating Equity, also known as the S4E Microgrants. These microgrants seek to enable innovation, progression, community collaboration, and equity within initiatives/projects, events, and research crafted at McMaster university.
CUPE Unit 2 (Sessionals) Professional Development Fund View on CUPE 3906 Site
If you are a sessional or contract instructor who is a member of CUPE 3906, This fund is intended to assist with expenses related to professional development linked to your teaching.
Community-Campus Catalyst Grant Fund Learn More on OCE Site
McMaster’s Office of Community Engagement offers small catalyst grants to McMaster University faculty, staff, students and their community partners through the Community-Campus Catalyst Grant Fund
Contact Our Team
Instructors or department/program leaders interested in learning more can contact our general experiential learning email address, or any one of the team members below:
Mark Busser
Manager, Careers & Experiential Education
Ruthanne Talbot
Experiential Programming & Outreach Manager
