Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation

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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 […]

Preparing Your Teaching Dossier

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The teaching dossier is a comprehensive record of teaching activities and accomplishments that is now required in applications for permanent positions at the University of Toronto and at an increasing number of institutions across North America. In this session, we will review the elements of a successful teaching dossier and discuss how to use it […]

*CANCELED* Assessing Student Work and Providing Feedback Using Microsoft 365 Tools

PLEASE NOTE: This webinar has been canceled. Facilitators: Justin Fletcher, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI/ACT Cora McCloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning This webinar is part of our Microsoft 365 for Teaching and Learning Series. We will review considerations for implementing assessments in your course. We will then explore […]

CTSI Equity Roundtable: Anti-Black Racism Taskforce and its implications for the classroom

Facilitator: Dr Njoki Wane, PhD, Professor & Chair, Department of Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education In this workshop we shall explore our understanding of the Mandate of the Taskforce. How does the mandate speak to our teaching pedagogies, if at all?  How does an equitable classroom look like from the standpoint […]

Community Discussion: Supporting Students With Contact and Care

Teaching assistants often provide personalized support to their students, whether it takes the form of office hours, extra help with course content, disciplinary guidance, or conversations about mental wellness. Such personalized support can be crucial to student success, especially when educators are striving to maintain accessible, equitable learning environments. However, the labour associated with these forms of care and individualized connection can often be difficult to […]

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 […]

Faculty of Arts & Science Teaching & Technology Drop-In Session

The Faculty of Arts & Science Teaching & Learning and Teaching Technology Support team members are available via Microsoft Teams to answer any questions about digital teaching—from considerations about course and assignment design to effectively using Quercus and integrating educational technologies. Join via Teams Learn more about the Faculty of Arts & Science Online Learning […]

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 […]