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Second Language Teaching: Putting the Principles of Communicative Language Teaching to Work

Blackburn Room

Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator Ahmed Kandil, TATP Social Sciences Trainer Description: In this workshop, language instructors will have the opportunity to learn about and explore some core principles of communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based instruction. Employing a number of theoretical and empirical findings drawn from […]

Learning in the U of T Classroom: Collaborative Facilitated Discussion for International TAs & Cis

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Lauren Norman, TATP Sciences Trainer Ahmed Kandil, TATP Social Sciences Trainer International graduate students bring a wealth of knowledge and skills to the classroom in which they work. Applying these skills and knowledge in the classroom at the University of Toronto often necessitates navigating cultural differences in […]

Being in the Front of the Classroom

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Chester Scoville, Teaching Fellow, CTSI, Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream), Department of English and Drama, UTM  Academics in general, and teaching assistants especially, often experience anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, and uncertainty when facing a new group of students. This workshop will explore the hows and whys of this anxiety, and work through ways […]

Brown Bag Lunch: End-of-Term Concerns

CTSI Boardroom, Room 4035 130 St. George St., Toronto

CTSI Boardroom, Room 4035, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator At this brown-bag lunch, we’ll be focusing on concerns relating to all that comes with the end of the semester. If you’re facing a huge stack of grading or office hours full of anxious students, and want to discuss strategies, […]

Designing Meaningful Assignments

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Charly Bank, Assistant Professor,Teaching Stream, Department of Earth Sciences and Teaching Fellow, CTSI A key task of instructors is the creation of assignments that assess student learning. Meaningful assignments go beyond merely coming up with grades. Meaninful assignments provide feedback to both parties: students may see how they are […]

Authentic Engagement in the Learning Environment

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UTSC - IC318 - ELECTIVE Ghazal Fazli, TATP Sciences Trainer Creating a collaborative, stimulating and effective learning environment requires much more than attention to content. As TAs, we must also develop a confident, comfortable classroom presence, while at the same time making sure that we are connecting with students who have different personalities and learning […]

PowerPoint and Beyond: Using Visual Aids in the Classroom

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CTSI Teaching Studio, Room 4034, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Joel Rodgers, TATP Humanities Trainer David Chan, TATP Sciences Trainer PowerPoint and other slideware have become ubiquitous in post-secondary classrooms, and these new technologies have attracted both critics and defenders. This workshop will locate this debate around slideware presentations within the broader question of how […]

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 - ELECTIVE Joel Rodgers, TATP Humanities Trainer Alex Motut, TATP Social Sciences Trainer 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 […]

Navigating Power Roles

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UTSC - IC318 - ELECTIVE Ghazal Fazli, TATP Sciences Trainer Research focused on student engagement demonstrates that undergraduates value the relationships they have with TAs highly. The research also highlights that interaction with students inside and outside of the classroom are key to engaging students and for their supporting academic success. This workshop will focus on […]

Developing Inter-Cultural Competencies as Graduate Student Teachers at U of T

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Sandy Carpenter, TATP Course Instructor Training Coordinator Ahmed Kandil, TATP Social Sciences Trainer As the University of Toronto persists toward internationalization, so too the graduates student body continues to become more and more international. As international graduate students transition to life at the University of Toronto, they […]

Phases of Learning: The 5 E’s Model of Lesson Design

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator Alex Stewart, TATP Sciences Trainer Lesson plan templates can be helpful, but can also feel restrictive. Winging it can be exhilarating, but can also backfire! Is it possible to strike a balance between an ordered approach to lesson planning and encouraging students […]

Brown Bag Lunch: Changing Things Up

CTSI Boardroom, Room 4035 130 St. George St., Toronto

CTSI Boardroom, Room 4035, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator At this brown bag lunch, we will focus on ways TAs can refresh their teaching. Do you find yourself repeating the same formula in your tutorials week after week? Have you been itching to try out something a bit different? […]

Why Do It Alone?: Effective Collaboration and Building a Teaching Community

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Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator Sasha Kovacs, TATP Humanities Trainer For graduate student instructors, teaching in a large institution can be a solitary task. Although we are surrounded by other teachers, we often find ourselves working alone, unable to access learning and teaching communities developed for both […]

Effective Online Engagement: Best Practices for EdTech

CTSI Teaching Studio, Room 4034, 4th Floor Robarts Library

CTSI Teaching Studio, Room 4034, 4th Floor Robarts Libary - ELECTIVE Mariana Jardim, Faculty Liaison, Teaching, Learning and Technology, CTSI Mike Kasprzak, TATP Curriculum Developer Hybrid or blended courses—which combine traditional face to face teaching with online components—are quickly becoming the most effective approach to teaching in higher education. The online environment offers students innovative ways […]

Tackling “Hot Moments” in the Classroom: Effectively Navigating Controversial or Polarizing Material

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  Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Salina Abji, TATP Social Sciences Trainer Nick Eaves, TATP Sciences Trainer Session description: This two-hour workshop is designed to share strategies and develop methods for teaching contentious or sensitive subjects. TAs will learn not simply how to manage heated debates but also how to foster critical […]