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 […]

  • 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 […]