Large Class

• Visual Oompf!

  Post 3: Video Killed the Faculty Star You remember the feeling from your elementary school days. That all to perfect moment when, the teacher stepped away from the chalk board, […]

• Office Hours and Talking to Professors

  In conjunction with Student Life, CTSI has been working on a series of videos for students visiting instructors during office hours. On the Student Life side, these videos are a […]

• Large Classroom Teaching: a new online resource from CTSI

  We’re excited to announce that our new online learning module on Large Classroom Teaching is now available. This has been a collaborative project between CTSI staff, Teaching Academy members (winners […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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: […]

• 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 […]