Faculty Development Program 3 | The Teaching & Learning Centre | Seneca Polytechnic

Faculty Development Program 3 (FDP3) is central to your development as a polytechnic professor and as someone who teaches among the challenges of a diverse, multifaceted, and complex teaching and learning community, both inside and outside the classroom.

Through the process of inquiry and critical reflection, the practices and assumptions on which decisions about teaching are based will be discussed. Grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning and the principles of Universal Design for Learning, a variety of strategies to create a learning environment that is inclusive by design and engages students from diverse backgrounds will be examined. The role of applied research in the polytechnic classroom will also be explored.

Prerequisite: FDP2 is the pre-requisite for FDP3. Learn more on the Faculty Development Program webpage.

This is a 12-week course, running from January 15 to April 9, 2026. It meets weekly in hybrid mode on Thursdays. The in-person components will take place from 9:50 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. at Newnham Campus.

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Spaces in this course are reserved for the faculty members who are required to participate in this course. Once they have registered, we will open up any remaining spaces to the faculty who have applied and who have completed the pre-requisite course.