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TED talks and teaching
Image of Bonnie Bassler’s TED Talk by jurvetson at flickr.com Today, the Toronto TEDx event is happening in Toronto. What are TED Talks you ask? According to the TED talks […]
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Spotlight on Students: Making Referrals
During Orientation week, students are overwhelmed with information about the different offices, clubs and groups on campus that are here to offer support and resources for every aspect of their […]
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What to do when you don’t know the answer
Ok, the academic year has finally started and many of you are Teaching Assistants for the very first time of your life! Congratulations, to be a T.A. at UofT is […]
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Naming names
Believe it or not, most students attend courses in which the Professor or Teaching Assistant barely knows their faces, let alone their names. Yet, learning your pupils’ names or nicknames […]
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PhD comics and TA training
Piled Higher and Deeper, a grad school comic strip, created by Jorge Cham, has long been a source of inspiration for the TATP trainers in delivering initial TA training sessions […]
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Coming Soon – Large Classroom Teaching
The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation will soon launch an online module on Exploring Large Classroom Teaching. The University of Toronto’s faculty and graduate students have a fair bit […]
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TA Day 2011
TA Day 2011 was held on Sept. 1st. It was the perfect way to kickoff the month of September and the back to school season at U of T. As […]
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Spotlight on Students: First in the Family
Did you know that 1 in 5 students at U of T are the First in their Family to attend university? These students are children of parents who did not […]
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Entering the online classroom
Online courses are increasingly more commonplace (for distance education, continuing studies or as one way to deal with large classes and a rise in student population) but many of us […]
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Spotlight on Students: Re-thinking Office Hours
Focus on Teaching: Re-thinking Office Hours In our Back to School workshops this week, we’ve been talking about ways to meet with your students. Office hours are the traditional method: […]