• Time management: it’s not just for students

    We often encourage our students to focus on good time management, but finding ways to keep our lives in balance is a challenge that doesn’t stop after our undergrad years, […]

  • Spotlight on Students: Study Now, Succeed Later

    With August underway, you might think your students are focusing on enjoying those last precious days of summer vacation, but not everyone is waiting until September to think about studying […]

  • The Books of August

    As summer winds down and many of us are preparing for the busy fall ahead, we are looking for reading suggestions for these last weeks of August. (Of course, I […]

  • Meet the New TATP Staff

    The Teaching Assistants’ Training Program welcomes its 2011-12 staff.         The TATP is a peer-training—teaching assistants offering training to other teaching assistants—program that is housed in the […]

  • More Grammar Matters

    As we prepare for tonight’s Grammar Matters launch (Type Books, 883 Queen Street West, 6pm-8pm), our thoughts turn to–well, grammar matters. As Jila Ghomeshi demonstrates in her book, many people […]

  • Finding Your Place in a Large Classroom

    As educators and advocates of higher education, we spend a lot of time discussing how to reach students in large classes (well, any class really) so it’s nice to be […]

  • Grammar Matters

    “To use the language of rights, our right to comment on how others use language is as important as our right to choose how we speak in the first place.” […]

  • Training for first-contract TAs

    As you may know, the current CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement requires that all first-contract TAs receive 3 hours of paid pedagogical training.  However, did you know that the […]

  • Welcome to CTSI FOCUS

    First of all, we realize that starting a blog is not exactly cutting edge. If we claimed that we were breaking new ground by launching our blog then it would […]

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