Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

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Academic Resilience Series in Teaching & Learning: Exploring Academic Resilience: Research and Student Experiences

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 […]

Teaching for Transformation: Annual Conference+

Centre for Faculty Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine Teaching for Transformation: Annual Conference+ (TforT:AC+) is a three day immersion in the education paradigms and practices needed for today's health care work. TforT: AC+ involves keynote facilitated sessions, nominated emerging work (NEW), workshops, submitted short talks, roundtables, and space for open dialogue. TforT:AC+ will take place […]

ACUE Certified-Faculty Lunch & Learn: Opportunities and Challenges in Promoting Active Learning Online and In-Person

Presenters: Karen Smith, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough Laura Dempster BScD, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto Join U of T faculty graduates of the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Effective Teaching Practices course (ACUE-Certified Faculty) as they […]

Preparing the Teaching Dossier

Facilitators: 
 Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI 
 Kyle Turner, MSc, Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning, CTSI This webinar is part of the Demystifying the Dossier Series. Faculty are welcome to attend one or multiple workshops in the series; recordings will be available for all sessions online (https://q.utoronto.ca/courses/46670/pages/quercus-videos-and-workshop-recordings#ctsi). At the University of Toronto, a teaching dossier must […]

Dialogue and Debate Series: Risk or Reward: Using implicit bias to understand inequality in organizations

Centre for Faculty Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine We are joined for this Dialogue and Debate Series event by Dr. Leanne Son Hing and Dr. Nouman Ashraf. Our two speakers bring extensive research and experiential expertise on inequality in organizations. We will encourage community participation via moderation discussion and an open Q & A session. […]

Course Instructor Training Camp April 2022

Online Please note that these sessions can be counted towards Course Instructor Job training, but not towards either the Teaching Fundamentals or Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificates.  Nevertheless, anyone is welcome to participate in the event.   This training is grouped into two parts: five asynchronous learning modules (3 hours), and two 1.5 hour online webinars. You must compete the […]

Course Instructor Training Camp April 2022

Online Please note that these sessions can be counted towards Course Instructor Job training, but not towards either the Teaching Fundamentals or Advanced University Teaching Preparation Certificates.  Nevertheless, anyone is welcome to participate in the event.   This training is grouped into two parts: five asynchronous learning modules (3 hours), and two 1.5 hour online webinars. You must compete the […]

Assessment Fundamentals: Performance Based

Centre for Faculty Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine This workshop is for health profession educators who are interested in understanding, structuring and critically examining performance-based assessment of clinical competence. No previous experience in studying assessment is required, but some experience with either participating in or planning performance-based assessments will assist in examining issues and applying […]

April 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 […]

Fostering Adaptive Expertise in Education

Centre for Faculty Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine The aim of the session is to provide an opportunity for in-depth exploration of the science of adaptive expertise. We will describe the construct of adaptive expertise, present examples of evidence-based cognitive and curricular mechanisms that support development of adaptive expertise and help participants envision the translation […]