Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

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Academic Resilience Series in Teaching & Learning: Building Academic Resilience Across the Curriculum

Series description: Well before the COVID-19 pandemic, the teaching and learning environment in higher education has increasingly reflected a complex interplay of cognitive, emotional, and structural pressures. While most students arrive at U of T with strong academic skills, the university experience brings with it a variety of interconnected changes and challenges that can impact […]

Cancelled: Microteaching (Online)

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Each Online Microteaching session will involve 5 graduate student participants and 2 TATP facilitators and one TATP moderator.  Participants will take turns presenting for 10 (ten) minutes (as instructors) in front of their peers and the TATP facilitators (their students). Each instructor will provide a brief, 2-minute verbal self-assessment, stating what they thought worked well in […]

Equity Roundtable: Inclusivity, Mental Health, and the Pedagogy of Care

Facilitator: Kosha Bramesfeld, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Social Psychology,  Psychology Department, University of Toronto Scarborough Student co-presenters: Anuijan Chandran Ilakkiah Chandran Aiman Moeen Maduomethaa Pathmaraj Denise Silva As Maha Bali (2015) (https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhybridpedagogy.org%2Fpedagogy-of-care-gone-massive%2F&data=04%7C01%7Ckosha.bramesfeld%40utoronto.ca%7C400e173b1fef4899ee6908da197e68f1%7C78aac2262f034b4d9037b46d56c55210%7C0%7C0%7C637850327950660928%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=dktYyijSf7Zh9P2o8BP%2F9ZbnTh52Eho8%2FmwwC6FDunU%3D&reserved=0) has noted, “Sometimes, the most valuable thing we can offer our students is genuine care for them, their well-being, their happiness. Not just […]

Quantitative Methods in SoTL Research

Facilitators: Clarissa Lau, PhD, Data Analyst, CTSI Kyle Turner, MSc, Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning, CTSI Faculty Presenter: Asal Aslemand, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA), Department of Mathematical & Computational Sciences (UTM) This session is part of the 2022 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) webinar series. It provides an overview of quantitative research project […]

Microteaching (Online)

Each Online Microteaching session will involve 5 graduate student participants and 2 TATP facilitators and one TATP moderator.  Participants will take turns presenting for 10 (ten) minutes (as instructors) in front of their peers and the TATP facilitators (their students). Each instructor will provide a brief, 2-minute verbal self-assessment, stating what they thought worked well in […]

Priming for Teaching Awards: Navigating the Road to Recognition

Presenteres: Alison Gibbs, Director, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation and Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Statistical Sciences Megan Burnett, Associate Director, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation Please join us for a roundtable discussion on creating a long-term professional development strategy with a focus on progression toward possible future teaching and learning award nominations. […]

Tune into Teaching: Captioning Clinics

Facilitator: Shayne Train, Faculty Liaison Assistant, Teaching, Learning and Technology, CTSI/ACT Book a 30-minute online appointment with a Faculty Liaison from the Teaching, Learning, and Technology team at the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation to discuss captioning and transcription of your teaching materials. Book an appointment