Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

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Course Design Week: Best practices for designing effective exams

This workshop is a continuation of the first workshop of Course Design Week (Fundamentals of Course and Assessment Design), in which we discussed how to determine the types assessments you should use in your course. Exams are one of the most frequently used assessment types, yet most CIs do not receive training on how to […]

Course Design Week: Feedback and learning analytics as pedagogical tools: A data-based approach to course design and delivery

In this workshop, we explore different types of data that you can use to optimize your course design and delivery. First, we will discuss “learning analytics”, which has been identified by Educause as one of the six new technologies expected to have a significant impact on postsecondary teaching and learning. We will discuss what learning […]

Promoting Gender Diversity in STEM

In this workshop, we will explore with participants the realities of what it’s like being womxn and non-binary in STEM, focussing on information specific to the Canadian context. We will draw inspiration from our Community Discussion on Gender Bias in STEM (held in February 2022), to highlight themes such as current gender gaps across career […]

FAS: Role-Playing in Paper-Reading Seminars

Learn more about the Faculty of Arts & Science, Teaching & Learning Community of Practice Facilitator: Alec Jacobson, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Advanced topics seminars often feature a rotation of individual students giving reading presentations. This one-to-many format suffers various drawbacks, such as limited participation. To foster many-to-many interactions, I implemented a "role-playing" rotational format […]

Connecting and Communicating with Students using Microsoft 365 Tools

Facilitators: Justin Fletcher, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI/ACT Will Heikoop, Coordinator, DLI This webinar is part of our Microsoft 365 for Teaching and Learning Series. We will explore how you can use Microsoft 365 tools to communicate with your students and build social presence in your course. We will also highlight how […]

Designing for the future of teaching using a design thinking approach

Facilitator: Olivier St-Cyr, PhD, LEL (he/him/his), Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, UXD Concentration Liaison, Faculty of Information Over the past two years, members of the University of Toronto have had to reinvent their teaching environments, delivery methods, and interactions with colleagues and students. While many are looking forward to post-pandemic teaching, some of us are also […]

Researching Your Teaching: Creating a Space for Inquiry

Facilitators: Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI Kyle Turner, Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning, CTSI Faculty presenter: Sadia Sharmin, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Computer Science The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) helps us avoid what Shulman (1999) described as “pedagogical amnesia,” the many things about our teaching we forget from […]

ACUE Certified-Faculty Lunch & Learn: Designing Assignments and Rubrics: Transparency, Reliability, and Efficiency

Facilitators: Safieh Moghaddam, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Teaching Stream; Associate Chair (Linguistics and Languages), Department of Language Studies Dana Boyko, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in Finance, Rotman School of Management Join U of T faculty graduates of the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Effective Teaching Practices course (ACUE-Certified Faculty) as they share insights […]

Intercultural Teaching Circle: Workshop your Rubrics and Assignments

As TAs, providing grading rubrics for our assignments is often an effective way to demonstrate our expectations to students. At the same time, rubrics might also carry some cultural “baggage” (i.e. connotations, assumptions, and norms) that can create challenges in an intercultural environment and/or those who study in English as an additional language. For example, […]

March SoTL Journal Club

The CTSI-SoTL team is excited to offer a noon-hour SoTL Journal Club Series with monthly events throughout Fall-Winter 2021-22. The goal of this series is to provide an opportunity for our community to explore the SoTL literature in a synchronous group setting, both to find practical applications to implement in our teaching, and to inform […]