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 […]
While seemingly overwhelming, the work of planning and mapping out what you will do with your students over the term is achievable, although you will find yourself negotiating many roles – often simultaneously. This session will provide you with a general sense of what you can be doing as you get ready for your first […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]