Graduate Students

• Think-Pair-Share with the TATP

  The Teaching Assistants’ Training Program has a new TATP Short to share. Enjoy! This one, on Think-Pair-Share, is presented by Darius Rackus, Department of Chemistry, TATP Science Trainer. You can […]

• Ramping up for the new school year

  Registration for this year’s Back-to-School Series is now open. A complete list of workshop titles and descriptions is available online. This year, we have a new featured event – a […]

• 2012 TATP Teaching Excellence Award Winners

  Congratulations to the following U of T teaching assistants, winners of this year’s award: Emily Holland, Department of Anthropology Stefana Gargova, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures Sara Osenton, Department […]

• TATP Teaching Excellence Award – the Shortlist

  It is with great pleasure (and excitement) that we can announce this year’s short list candidates for the 2012 TATP Teaching Excellence Award: Abdul Abyab, Department of Mathematics & Computational […]

• Reflections on the TA Teaching Excellence Award

  For the past eight years, I have had the distinct pleasure of coordinating the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program Teaching Excellence Award. It is always inspiring to read students’ testimonials about […]

• CTSI: the view from the 7th floor

  With the start of the new year, we have settled in our new, albeit temporary, home. Our space on the 4th floor of Robarts is under renovation – our office […]

• Curriculum guides for film – not just for K-12

  This post addresses a question I have fielded as a TATP trainer who teaches a workshop on video in the classroom. Partcipants sometimes ask, where can I find video curriculum […]

• Collaborative Learning Techniques in Action

  Classes are in full swing, tutorials are up and running and we’re hearing reports of great experiences in the classrooms. Sandra Romain, a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]