Teaching Assistants' Training Program

Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation, 130 St. George Street, Robarts Library, 4th floor

The Multilingual Classroom: Cultivating a Multilingual Teaching Team and Learning Community

Blackburn Room

Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Kris Kim, TATP Sciences Trainer Majd Zouda, TATP Social Sciences Trainer With increasing internationalization, teaching and learning in a multilingual context has become common for both multilingual and native English speaking TAs. Have you ever wondered how to effectively engage multilingual students or how to better navigate […]

Feedback on the Fly: How to Collect, Interpret, and Respond to Student Mid-course Feedback

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - CORE Joel Rodgers, TATP Humanities Trainer Alex Motut, TATP Social Sciences Coordinator After a few weeks into the term, how do we know if our class is going well? Assessing our teaching at the end of a course can be difficult enough, yet it’s equally important to hear and respond […]

Big Ideas on a Small Scale: Adapting Concepts and Trends in Teaching and Learning for your Classroom

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - CORE Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator Sanaz Ghasemi, TATP Sciences Trainer Buzzwords abound in the world of higher education: we hear about outcomes and objectives, experiential and service learning, taxonomies of learning and communities of practice. But what do these ideas mean for our classrooms? How do we […]

Moving Beyond Stressful Academic Relationships

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - CORE Majd Zouda, TATP Social Sciences Trainer Matt Jones, Peer Advisor, Conflict Resolution Centre for Graduate Students Manaal S., Peer Advisor, Conflict Resolution Centre for Graduate Students Does your academic work sometimes require you to collaborate with difficult individuals? As a T.A., have you ever had difficulties managing […]

Failure and Resilience in the Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion

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Blackburn Room, 4th Floor Robarts Library - ELECTIVE Joel Rodgers, TATP Humanities Trainer David Chan, TATP Sciences Coordinator Alli Diskin, TATP Program Assistant There seems to be a wide-spread impression that undergraduate students are now “less resilient” than previous generations. Failure has even become a “hot topic” for research, as the development of The Success-Failure […]

Edtech Tools for engagement: Clickers, Blogs & Twitter

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Mike Kasprzak, TATP Curriculum Developer Mariana Jardim, Faculty Liaison, Teaching, Learning and Technology Social media technologies have become an essential extension of our personal or business life and a way that we communicate, connect, and collaborate. But can we use these technologies to facilitate and enhance our teaching […]

Level Up Your Teaching: Games and Gamification in Higher Education

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Abdullah Farooqi, TATP Humanities Trainer David Chan, TATP Sciences Coordinator Michael Dick, TATP Social Sciences Trainer The use of games in Higher Education has recently become more widespread. Research suggests that gamification can help students engage with material, develop critical thinking skills, and teach morality and empathy […]

UTSC: The Multilingual Classroom: Cultivating a Multilingual Teaching Team and Learning Community (March 16)

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University of Toronto Scarborough, IC318 - ELECTIVE Tingting Zhu, TATP Sciences Trainer Alex Motut, TATP Social Sciences Coordinator With increasing internationalization, teaching and learning in a multilingual context has become common for both multilingual and native English speaking TAs. Have you ever wondered how to effectively engage multilingual students or how to better navigate language barriers […]

Transformative Learning in Practice

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Kathleen Ogden, TATP Humanities Trainer Mark Hathaway, TATP Social Sciences Trainer Frames of reference are essentially “habits of the mind” encompassing assumptions, beliefs, values, concepts, and feelings that filter and condition our perception of the world. Transformative learning seeks to move beyond what is typically understood as […]

Statement of Teaching Philosophy Clinic

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - CORE Marie Vander Kloet, Assistant Director, TATP/CTSI Mike Kasprzak, Curriculum Developer, TATP Alex Motut, Social Sciences Coordinator, TATP The statement of teaching philosophy (STP) is the foundation of any teaching dossier, is often requested as part of an academic job application, and is an important part of the […]

“Are you ok?”: Supporting Students in Distress

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - CORE Mike Kasprzak, TATP Curriculum Developer Kris Kim, TATP Sciences Trainer Wondering about effective ways to refer a student in distress? Given your role as a frontline teacher, students will often come to you with questions about getting help or you will observe, engage and refer students who […]

Developing Intercultural Competencies for Use in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Sanaz Ghasemi, TATP Sciences Trainer Alex Motut, TATP Social Sciences Coordinator Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator, Tingting Zhu, TATP Sciences Trainer As graduate student TAs and CIs at the University of Toronto, we teach in classrooms that are among the most culturally diverse in the world. Intercultural […]

Preparing Your Teaching Dossier

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - CORE Marie Vander Kloet, Assistant Director, CTSI/TATP Dianne Ashbourne, Educational Developer, Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre, UTM The teaching dossier is a comprehensive record of teaching activities and accomplishments that is now required in applications for permanent positions at the University of Toronto and at an increasing number […]

Course Instructor Training Camp

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CTSI Teaching Studio, Room 4034/Blackburn Room, 4th Floor Robarts Library Please note that these sessions are for Course Instructor Job training only and cannot be counted towards either the Teaching Fundamentals or Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificates.   SESSION A - 9:30am-11:30am : CTSI Teaching Studio, Room 4034 Course Administration for First Time CUPE 3902 […]

How Do We Ask For, Understand, and Discuss Our Evaluation Feedback?

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Kosha Bramesfeld,  Data Analyst, Course Evaluations Gregory Hum, Assistant Director, Teaching Assessment In this workshop, participants will identify ways to gather feedback, build understanding of the Course Evaluation Framework at the University of Toronto, and practice interpreting feedback data (both qualitative and quantitative). Lastly, we will consider how to […]