Teaching Strategies

• 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 […]

• How to make instructional videos

  By Maryam Shafiei, ACT Support Assistant You have probably heard the mantras, “Show, don’t tell” or “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember”. Visually illustrating a new […]

• 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, […]

• Evaluating participation

  Evaluating student participation in tutorials or seminars can be a challenge for everyone from first time TAs to experienced instructors. Recently, I came across an interesting suggestion posted on the […]

• Thinking Visually: Doodling, Concept Maps, and Notetaking

  As a student, were you one of those kids who doodled in the margins of your notebooks, or even on your desk (to the bane of janitorial staff everywhere)? Often […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]