This informative workshop will address the issues of lab specific challenges for Teaching Assistants (TAs). We hope the workshop will help you prepare pre-lab talks and demonstrations, as well as augment the interest of undergraduate students in the lab. Also, this workshop will provide practical tips, strategies and resources to effectively engage students during the […]
Welcome to York as a graduate student and teaching assistant. In preparation for your role as a teaching assistant, we are offering REPEAT orientation sessions to meet as many different schedules as possible. This is one of six repeat sessions. Please choose the ONE session that best meets your own schedule. Each session will be […]
We invite you to join us for “How Do You Know Teaching Happens?” Throughout this course, you will have the opportunity to practice and experience different instructional strategies with peers from across the university. Discussion and reflection will centre around the ways in which your instructional strategies are informed by the teaching and learning literature, […]
The course is designed to bring together graduate students who are interested in teaching and learning, to explore, dialogue, and reflect on teaching and learning in higher education. We hope that you can use this time and information to explore your own teaching identity and support your peers in doing the same. We will discuss […]
This course takes an experiential, inquiry-based, collaborative approach to learning about educational development. You will have the opportunity to experience educational development with your peers. You will choose what you want to focus on to support teaching and learning at York University, and will collaboratively design and implement different forms of support throughout the academic […]
What can we learn about our own teaching practices and identities from fictional depictions of higher education? Join us in “Fictional Classrooms” as we explore and reflect on narratives of education in films and novels, whether they speak to us as learners, educators, researchers, artists, or simply as humans. For Summer 2023, we will focus […]
Do you currently have a teaching ticket to teach a course, or are you interested in designing and teaching a course some day? In this workshop we will introduce a specific course design model, called the Integrated Course Design Model (Fink, 2003). This session will focus on one of the components of this model, assessment. […]
Do you currently have a teaching ticket to teach a course, or are you interested in designing and teaching a course some day? In this workshop we will introduce a specific course design model, called the Integrated Course Design Model (Fink, 2003). This session will focus on one of the components of this model, learning […]
As academic institutions move towards post-pandemic teaching and learning, the return to “normal” has reinforced and reproduced issues of power and privilege in the academy, such as ableism, racism, and classism. In this call for collaborators, we ask learning communities at York to consider how we can engage in a culture of equitable teaching that […]
The teaching dossier or teaching portfolio is a condensed reflection of your teaching philosophy and accomplishments. It essentially serves as a tool that will provide evidence of your teaching quality and effectiveness. This session is intended to provide you with the basics of creating and assembling your own teaching dossier as well as an opportunity […]