Have you ever been in a teaching situation where you felt unprepared to support a student with accommodations, or had to diffuse an argument on a sensitive cultural subject between students, or just felt like there was more you could do to ensure your teaching is inclusive? This virtual workshop was designed as a primer […]
This workshop is designed for the benefit of teaching assistants in the Liberal Arts, to develop skills and practices that can invite undergraduate students into, and cultivate a culture of, active reading and classroom discussions. By engaging with ‘Critical’ Reading in this deliberate way, via this particular ‘5-question’ method, the intention of the workshop is […]
This workshop aims to bring awareness to the impact of unconscious bias in educational settings and to provide practical solutions for teaching assistants and future faculty to create equitable and inclusive classrooms. Unconscious bias, also known as implicit bias, is a phenomenon where individuals hold biases and stereotypes about certain groups of people without being […]
Do you want to learn how to better inform, educate, and/or engage with non-expert audiences such as your students? In this 1-hour, face-to-face workshop, we will build on our understanding of science-related experiences, knowledge, and attitudes while building practical science communication skills through hands-on activities: Message Box Elevator Pitch Storytelling / 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Science […]
All prepared with activities for the interactive session you expect with students but find yourself engaged in a monologue with blank, vacant stares and silence from students who have not done the assigned readings? What to do? In this interactive webinar you will engage in small group activities and large group discussions to come up […]
Feedback strategies, time management, and student engagement are crucial elements of TA success. This webinar is designed to provide TAs of all levels with an introduction and overview of how they might integrate formative feedback in their pedagogy. In addition to considering formative feedback’s benefits and limitations, this webinar provides strategies for the effective implementation […]
Are you a tutorial leader or lab demonstrator looking for strategies to help you identify when learning happens in your classes? Join us for TACO (Teaching Assistant Course Orientation), a fully online course intended to serve as an orientation experience for graduate students and teaching assistants (TAs). The course consists of asynchronous learning opportunities where […]
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 […]
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. […]
In this workshop, we aim to share/collaborate on some best/better practices to address the needs of the diverse populations that make up Tkaronto/Toronto. The classroom landscape is always changing especially with precarious pandemic conditions, housing prices, mental health crises, and the continued effects of long covid. We are continuing the conversations about how implicit bias […]