Teaching Assistants' Training Program Workshops

Active learning is a powerful teaching strategy and philosophy that enhances students’ engagement, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Active learning transcends traditional lectures by placing students at the center of their educational journey and inviting them to participate actively in discussions, hands-on activities, and collaborative projects. Active learning creates an environment where learning is not […]

In this workshop, participants will receive an introduction to Universal Design for Learning, with a specific focus on how to integrate UDL into elements of online learning. We will review the University’s institutionally supported toolkit for inspiration. Importantly. Participants will understand how to design engagements that are accessible and equitable. Finally, participants will learn about […]

Each OnlineMicroteaching session will involve 5 graduate student participants and 2 TATPfacilitators. Participants will take turns acting as instructors by takingtheir students (i.e., other participants and TATP facilitators) through a 10(ten) minute lesson over Zoom. Following their lesson and a brief reflection, eachinstructor will provide a brief, verbal self-assessment, stating what theythought worked well in […]

bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Released in 1994, this book has become a seminal work of critical pedagogy theory. A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics, from hooks’s own experiences of schooling to her difficulties finding space for Black feminist literature […]

Facilitator: Clarissa Lau Ph.D. (she/her), Manager, Assessment & Analysis, Student ExperienceIn our day to day, we engage with a range of students as staff, faculty, or fellow peers. Have you ever considered how you can use data to better inform your interactions, teaching, and supports for students? This session will offer a broad overview of […]

Facilitators:Alex Bowie (he/him) Learning Strategist, Resilience focus  Carol Ducharme (she/her), Learning Strategist, Indigenous focusThis session will introduce an Indigenous Education framework, as well as the pedagogical approach of storytelling to help guide decolonization processes in educational practice.Examples of resilience stories will be shared to challenge participants to expand their thinking of resilience and lived experience.Join […]

At the University of Toronto, our classrooms are made up of students from a wide range of programs and disciplines. Electives/open courses, in particular, can bring students together from diverse disciplines, leading to important questions about promoting and nurturing interdisciplinarity in our classrooms. In other words: How might we develop teaching strategies to promote interdisciplinary […]

In a recent blog post addressing AI’s impact on writing-intensive university courses, the management professor Ethan Mollick makes an intriguing comparison. “Think,” he writes, “of how the calculator completely changed what was valuable to teach, and the nature of math teaching overall…Now, what happened to math is going to happen to nearly every subject in […]

Each OnlineMicroteaching session will involve 5 graduate student participants and 2 TATPfacilitators. Participants will take turns acting as instructors by takingtheir students (i.e., other participants and TATP facilitators) through a 10(ten) minute lesson over Zoom. Following their lesson and a brief reflection, eachinstructor will provide a brief, verbal self-assessment, stating what theythought worked well in […]

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 […]

bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Released in 1994, this book has become a seminal work of critical pedagogy theory. A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics, from hooks’s own experiences of schooling to her difficulties finding space for Black feminist literature […]

As our collective understanding of Accessible, Inclusive and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies evolves, we develop practices to better support and accommodate for all types of learners in the classroom. “Neurodiversity” has emerged as a term to describe the unique differences in how our brains develop and how individuals interact differently with the world. This workshop is designed […]