Teaching Assistants' Training Program

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

UTSC: Classroom Management Strategies

IC 318

UTSC - IC318 - CORE Malama Tsimenis, Senior Lecturer, Centre for French and Linguistics, UTSC Teaching assistants are often faced with problematic situations which, if not promptly addressed, can destabilize the classroom environment and ruin both the students’ learning experience and the TAs’ teaching experience.  In this interactive workshop, TAs will work together to come up […]

UTSC: Enhancing Students’ Research Skills

IC 318

UTSC - IC318 - CORE Sarah Fedko, Liaison Librarian for the Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC Library This workshop mixes brief presentations with activities that enable participants to (1) identify common undergraduate problems with research, (2) learn current best practices and resources to address such problems, and (3) formulate strategies they would use to help […]

UTSC: Effective and Efficient Grading

IC 318

UTSC - IC318 - CORE Tingting Zhu, TATP UTSC Trainer Joel Rodgers, TATP Humanities Trainer Have upcoming grading to do?  This workshop is designed to assist Teaching Assistants to maximize their contribution to students’ success and their own efficiency and productivity during the grading process. Topics covered will include: effective feedback, language-related issues, academic integrity, time […]

Brown Bag Lunch: Strategic Planning

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

CTSI Boardroom, Room 4035, Robarts Library 4th Floor - ELECTIVE Robin Sutherland-Harris, TATP Humanities Coordinator Abdullah Farooqi, TATP Humanities Trainer At this brown-bag lunch, we’ll be focusing on planning that TAs can do to help their students and themselves, starting early in the semester. If your students seem unprepared to start tackling that final paper or […]

Fostering Academic Integrity

Blackburn Room

Blackburn Room, Robarts Library 4th Floor - CORE Martha Harris, Academic Integrity Officer, OSAI Mariana Jardim, Faculty Liaison, Teaching, Learning and Technology  You are invigilating an exam for a course and notice something suspicious… what should you do? Or...what if you are grading a paper and find some text that matches something online? What is […]