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Facilitators: Michal Kasprzak, Team Lead, Educational Development, CTSI Cristina D’Amico, Educational Developer, CTSI Teaching Assistants (TAs) play a critical role in student learning and course delivery. This session introduces instructors to effective practices for supervising and supporting TAs within the University of Toronto's unionized environment. Participants will explore responsibilities related to the Collective Agreement, workload […]
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Award-winning TAs will share their best strategies for working successfully as a TA. This interactive panel will include a directed question-and-answer period drawing on real questions and concerns from TA Month participants.Offered as part of TA Month. Visit the TA Month Website (https://tatp.utoronto.ca/ta-month-2026/) for more information. |
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Tuesday, September 29th, 10am – 11am
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Cogniti (https://teaching.utoronto.ca/tool-guides/cogniti/) is U of T's platform for building course-specific AI agents: grounded in your content, aligned with your pedagogy, and deployed directly in Quercus. The Cogniti Drop-In Clinic is an open, drop-in session for anyone working with Cogniti, whether you are setting up your first agent or troubleshooting one that's already live. Each session […] |
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Tri-Campus TA Meet-Ups
Are you a graduate student or TA at UofT? Join the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP) for one (or more) of our TA Month social events.• Enjoy free pizza(!)• Meet fellow graduate students and TAs• Connect with TATP staff and Graduate Educational Developers• Ask questions about teaching professional development and TATP certificate programs.These are drop–in […]
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Please note that these sessions can be counted towards 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 is a 2-hour webinar for first-appointment TAs. This session will cover strategies for teaching. All departments may allow TAs to use this […]
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@ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live IC318, Instructional Centre, UTSC Are you a graduate student or TA at U of T? Join the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP) for a casual social event on Wednesday, September 30th from 12:00–2:00 PM! Enjoy free pizza (!) Meet fellow graduate students and TAs Connect with TATP staff and graduate educational […] |
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@ MN 1110 (The Spot), Maanjiwe Nendamowinan, UTM Are you a graduate student or TA at U of T? Join the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP) for a casual social event on Thursday, October 1st from 12:00–2:00 PM! Enjoy free pizza (!) Meet fellow graduate students and TAs Connect with TATP staff and graduate educational developers Ask questions about teaching professional development and TATP certificate […]
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Lauren Brown, Health Promotion Community Liaison, Health & Wellness; Sessional Faculty, Victoria University Explore how the Supporting Our Students’ Mental Health resource and Mental Health Certificate provide accessible, practical supports for student mental health across the U of T community. UDL Conversations (https://teaching.utoronto.ca/teaching-uoft-udl/udl-programming/udl-conversations/) is a 30-minute online series hosted by the Centre for Teaching Support […] |
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@ Blackburn Room, 4th Floor Robarts Library, 130 St. George St Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live Are you a graduate student or TA at U of T? Join the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP) for a casual social event on Friday, October 2nd from 12:00–2:00 PM! Enjoy free pizza (!) Meet fellow graduate students […]
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Presented by Mathematical and Computational Sciences, UTM If you have any questions about this session, please contact Shay Fuchs, Professor, Teaching Stream, Mathematical and Computational Sciences at s.fuchs@utoronto.ca Speaker: Dr. Aviv Censor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology It's no secret that student classroom attendance is declining in Europe, North-America and worldwide, during the first semester and […] |
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Facilitator: Alana Boland, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning, UTSG In This Session: Professor Alana Boland will share how she redesigned her courses to shift assessment from take-home essays to in-class written responses focused on readings. This change has led to greater emphasis on the 'how' and 'why' of both reading and writing. Students […] |
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This fall TATP along with Health & Wellness (https://studentlife.utoronto.ca/department/health-wellness/) will be running a hybrid version of the Mental Health Foundations Certificate (https://studentlife.utoronto.ca/program/mental-health-foundations-certificate/). The certificate was designed to help students develop their mental health literacy so that they can support themselves and others. This hybrid offering gives Teaching Assistants the added opportunity to learn about the […] |
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Presented by: UTM-RGASC In-Person Registration This session takes the Blackwood Gallery's Lines, Pattern, Action exhibition as an entry point for noticing a familiar colonial binary in our own classrooms: which forms of knowledge we treat as rigorous scholarship, and which we discount as craft, anecdote, or supplement. The exhibition artists inherited that same distinction in […] |
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The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation's is pleased to provide a second offering of Reconciliation in Practice: A Learning Community for Faculty and Staff for the 2026-2027 academic year. This monthly professional learning series offers a reflective and supportive space for faculty and staff who wish to engage more meaningfully with reconciliation in their […] |
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Universities are often filled with layers of assumed knowledge that are woven into the everyday systems, structures, and customs of their learning spaces. These embedded vocabularies, epistemologies, and educational structures are identified in the SoTL literature as “The Hidden Curriculum,” the unwritten rules and unset expectations that not only inhibit learners (such as communication styles, […]
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Cogniti (https://teaching.utoronto.ca/tool-guides/cogniti/) is U of T's platform for building course-specific AI agents: grounded in your content, aligned with your pedagogy, and deployed directly in Quercus. The Cogniti Drop-In Clinic is an open, drop-in session for anyone working with Cogniti, whether you are setting up your first agent or troubleshooting one that's already live. Each session […] |
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Presented by: Facilitators: Al Hearn, Educational Developer, Experiential Learning Jasjit Sangha, Educational Developer Anti-Racist Pedagogy, CTL UTSC Students in partnership based experiential learning (EL) courses are entering into more complex community environments in which they need to develop skills in communication, self-awareness, and relationship building. However, this can be challenging when concerns around identity, belonging, […]
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Presented by: Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC Students in partnership-based EL courses are entering into more complex community environments in which they need to develop skills in communication, self-awareness and relationship building. However, this can be challenging when concerns around identity, belonging and role expectations are affecting the students’ experience with community partners. We […] |
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Presented by: Teaching & Learning, A&S A&S Teaching & Learning Community of Practice: A Summer of Laughing Ourselves Mad: On Integrating Accessibility While Teaching On Mental Health and Disability Thursday, October 15, 12-1pm EST, Online, Registration Presenter: Tamar Hanstke, PhD Student, Course Instructor, Cinema Studies Institute In the summer of 2026, I designed and taught […]
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Presented by: UTM-RGASC Registration In-Person on Wednesday, October 14th, 2026, 1:00pm - 2:00pm in ALC Room, MN3260 Online on Thursday, October 15th, 2026, 1:00pm - 2:00pm on Microsoft Teams Assessment practices in higher education can have a significant impact on student identities, namely on how they perceive themselves, their academic abilities, and their sense of […] |
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UDL in Practice is a monthly professional learning series hosted by the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI). These 30-minute online sessions create space to think through real teaching questions, challenges, and ideas using a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) approach. Each session focuses on an area of course design, such as methods, materials, […]
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Each Microteaching session will involve 5 graduate student participants and 2 TATP facilitators. Participants will take turns acting as instructors by taking their students (i.e., other participants and TATP facilitators) through a 10 (ten) minute lesson over Zoom. Following their lesson and a brief reflection, each instructor will provide a brief, verbal self-assessment, stating what they thought […] |
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Presented by: UTM-RGASC Registration Online on Monday, October 19th, 2026, 11:00am - 12:00pm on Microsoft Teams In-Person on Thursday, October 22nd, 2026, 11:00am - 12:00pm in ALC Room, MN3260 Not every task that could involve AI should be approached the same way. This session introduces a three-position discernment framework, delegation, outsourcing, and doing it yourself, […]
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Presented by: Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC How can instructors promote students' effortful engagement in the classroom as AI proliferates in higher education? We will present data from a novel study on how students and instructors think about the value of mental effort in learning. We will then explore strategies to motivate students' effortful reasoning […] |
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Facilitators: Yuxin Tu, Senior Manager, Evaluation and Assessment, CTSI Bridgid McNulty, Project Manager, Course Evaluations, CTSI Cora McCloy, Educational Developer, CTSI Course evaluations are one of the best windows into the student experience. Together with other sources of feedback, they’re a key way we hear student voices and understand how teaching practices are landing in […] |
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Facilitator: Marci Prescott-Brown, Director, New College Writing Centre, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, New College, Faculty of Arts & Science As generative AI reshapes writing instruction, educators face the challenge of fostering student learning while preserving writerly agency, critical thinking, and accessibility. Professor Marci Prescott-Brown will explore a human-centred approach to assignment design that uses in-class […]
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Presented by: Teaching & Learning, A&S Registration Description: Instructors teaching in Arts & Science are invited to an upcoming workshop exploring how Microsoft 365 tools, such as OneDrive, PowerPoint, Word, and Forms, can support collaboration, iteration, and co-creation in their courses. The session will showcase practical examples of group assignment workflow and formative feedback and […] |
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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 […]
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Presented by the Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning Curriculum development efforts often hinge on how they begin: how a department frames the work, sequences early decisions, and brings faculty on board in a way that sets the initiative up for success. This session takes on that early, often challenging stage of curriculum development, […] |
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Antía González Ben, Assistant Professor, Music Education, Faculty of Music Explore how Quercus can support graduate supervision through UDL, creating a more accessible, organized, and supportive experience for supervisees. UDL Conversations (https://teaching.utoronto.ca/teaching-uoft-udl/udl-programming/udl-conversations/) is a 30-minute online series hosted by the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) that highlights accessible, inclusive, and usable teaching and […]
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Presented by: Teaching & Learning, A&S Registration This presentation explores the role of experiential learning and relationship-building in first-year science education, drawing on experiences from CSB198: Cell and Molecular Biology in the News. The course connects undergraduates with graduate researchers, science communication professionals, and high school students in the Pursue STEM program. Through interviewing researchers, […] |
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Cogniti (https://teaching.utoronto.ca/tool-guides/cogniti/) is U of T's platform for building course-specific AI agents: grounded in your content, aligned with your pedagogy, and deployed directly in Quercus. The Cogniti Drop-In Clinic is an open, drop-in session for anyone working with Cogniti, whether you are setting up your first agent or troubleshooting one that's already live. Each session […] |
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Presented by: UTSC Join us for a virtual talk with educator Dr. Sarah Silverman, author of Classroom Mindscapes: An Introduction to Neurodiversity for Educators. Dr. Silverman will present and open a discussion on inclusion and accessibility friction in teaching practice in higher education. All are welcome at UTSC and U of T. This event is […] |
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Presented by: Centre for Teaching and Learning, UTSC We will unpack how educators can evolve learning spaces and pedagogies to value students’ diverse experiences, remove barriers and build community in which students feel like their identities belong. We will demystify how to create an anti-racist, inclusive and accessible classroom, regardless of subject matter of your […]
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Each Microteaching session will involve 5 graduate student participants and 2 TATP facilitators. Participants will take turns acting as instructors by taking their students (i.e., other participants and TATP facilitators) through a 10 (ten) minute lesson over Zoom. Following their lesson and a brief reflection, each instructor will provide a brief, verbal self-assessment, stating what they thought […] |
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Join us for our monthly reading group exploring generative AI in teaching and learning contexts. This is an informal discussion space for faculty, staff, and educational developers to engage with current research on GenAI in higher education. This event is hosted on the CTSI GenAI in Teaching and Learning Commons Teams Channel. This Month's Reading: […] |
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