U of T Teaching and Learning Calendar

Facilitator: Shayne Train, Faculty Liaison Assistant, Teaching, Learning and Technology, CTSI/ACT Book a 30-minute online appointment with a Faculty Liaison from the Teaching, Learning, and Technology team at the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation to discuss captioning and transcription of your teaching materials. Book an appointment

Facilitators: Megan Burnett, Associate Director, CTSITamara Bahr, Manager, Teaching, Learning and Technology, CTSIOnlineA well-crafted syllabus ensures that students understand the essential requirements for participating and succeeding in a course. A well-designed syllabus can also serve as a learning tool to enhance students’ experience in the course, beyond listing course policies and due dates. This practical, […]

Facilitators: Megan Burnett, Associate Director, CTSICora McCloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, CTSIThis in-person session will provide strategies for getting your course off to a welcoming and productive start, including:• what to do in the first week of classes• how to present the course objectives and syllabus to your students• how to […]

Facilitators: Andrea Graham, Ph.D., Learning Strategist, Academic SuccessAndrea Williams, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Director of Writing & Rhetoric, Innis College, and Writing-Integrated Teaching, FASOnlineAssignments have been called the creative engine of teaching: they can increase student engagement and learning and make the grading process for instructors and TAs more meaningful. But what exactly are good assignments […]

Facilitators: Alison Gibbs, Director, CTSI and Professor, Teaching Stream Statistical Sciences, FAS Megan Burnett, Associate Director, CTSI In person, Blackburn Room, 4th Floor Robarts LibraryIn this session, we will discuss a range of misconceptions about institutional grading procedures and provide clarification around some key issues and common scenarios related to grading at U of T. […]

Facilitator: Shayne Train, Faculty Liaison Assistant, Teaching, Learning and Technology, CTSI/ACT Book a 30-minute online appointment with a Faculty Liaison from the Teaching, Learning, and Technology team at the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation to discuss captioning and transcription of your teaching materials. Book an appointment

Derek Hunt, Faculty Liaison, Teaching, Learning & Technology, CTSI/ACTMarko Piljevic, Faculty Liaison, Technology, CTSI/ACTThis online workshop is geared toward faculty, staff and TAs who are brand new to Quercus and those who are looking to review the basics. In this session participants will learn about essential information to get started with building their Quercus course. […]

Facilitators: Megan Burnett, Associate Director, CTSI Kelly Gordon, Coordinator, Programs & Strategic Initiatives, CTSI OnlineAt the University of Toronto, a teaching dossier must be submitted as part of the formal review process for tenure and continuing status. Beyond the information included in an academic CV, a teaching dossier describes and documents an instructor’s teaching expertise, […]

The CTSI-SoTL team is excited to continue the monthly Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Journal Club Series through Fall-Winter 2022-23. The goal of this series is to provide an opportunity for our community to explore the SoTL literature in a group setting, both to find practical applications to implement in the classroom and to […]

Facilitators:Professor Ahmed Allahwala, Department of Human Geography, UTSCDr. Jennifer Esmail, Director, Centre for Community PartnershipsThe intent of this lunch and learn is to collectively examine power as a central feature of classroom dynamics and teaching-learning processes. As instructors, we have to strike a delicate balance between our institutional, pedagogical and subject-matter authority and our desire […]

Facilitators: Megan Burnett, Assistant Director, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI)Kelly Gordon, Coordinator, Programs & Strategic Initiatives, CTSIClare Gilderdale, Manager, Teaching Initiatives, Office of the Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education (VPIUE)Jennifer Evans, Special Projects Officer, Teaching Initiatives, VPIUEIn this roundtable session intended for academic administrators and University staff supporting award nominations, we will provide […]

Facilitators:  Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI Kyle Turner, MSc, Faculty Liaison, Teaching and Learning, CTSI The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) helps us avoid what Shulman (1999) described as “pedagogical amnesia,” the many things about our teaching we forget from one term to the next. SoTL enables us to capture insights […]

Facilitators: Cora McCloy, PhD, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, CTSI Kyle Turner, 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://teaching.utoronto.ca/resources/quercus-videos-and-workshop-recordings/).  At the University of Toronto, a teaching dossier […]