TA Week 2025
August 26 @ 9:00 am – August 28 @ 12:30 pm EDT
Tri-Campus TA Week, a three-day packed with sessions designed to enhance your job training and professional development. TA Week consists of three days of online sessions, covering a range of topics such as effective communication, assessment and feedback strategies, fostering student engagement, advice from award winning instructors, and training for first-contract TAs. TA Week is open to all new and returning TAs at the University of Toronto. All sessions can be used as paid training with department approval. Registration Coming Soon
| Day | Time | Teaching Foundations | Teaching Expertise | |
| Tuesday, Aug 26 | 9:00am -10:00am | Welcome, What I Wished TAs Knew About Our Students? | ||
| 10:15am – 11:15am | Supporting Your Students Supporting Yourself/CUPE 3902 | |||
| 11:30am – 12:30am | Preparing for your first tutorial Sci & Eng | Preparing for your first tutorial Hum and Soc | Making the Most of Your Teaching Experience | |
| Wednesday, Aug 27 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | TATP Teaching Excellence Award Winners Panel | ||
| 2:15pm – 3:15pm | An Introduction to Grading in the Sciences & Engineering | An Introduction to Grading in the Humanities & Social Sciences | Managing Difficult Conversations | |
| 3:30pm – 4:30pm | Student Engagement/Active Learning – Sciences & Engineering | Student Engagement/Active Learning – Humanities & Social Sciences | Identifying and Addressing Microaggressions | |
| Thursday, Aug 28 | 9:00pm – 10:00pm | Troubleshooting TA Challenges | ||
| 10:15pm – 11:15pm | Navigating TA-CI Relationship | Building Community in your classroom | Fostering Equity and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning | |
| 11:30pm – 12:30pm | Using Educational Technology in the Classroom | PowerPoint Essentials | Integrating AI into Active Learning Activities | |