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CTSI Equity Roundtable – Teaching for Change: Decolonizing through Stories

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 […]

Community-Engaged Research Faculty Discussion Club – Formalizing the Relationship in Community-Engaged Research: Key Relationship Building Activities & Challenges

Presented By: Centre for Community Partnerships & Centre for Research and Innovation Support  This series, in collaboration with the Centre for Research and Innovation Support, is for faculty with an interest in deepening their understanding and practice of community-engaged research (CER). Participants will have the opportunity to connect with, and learn together from, colleagues and […]

EDI and Academic Freedom in the Classroom: Navigating Tensions and Exploring Possibilities

Name: Blackburn Room, 4th Floor Robarts Library Address: 130 St. George Street Toronto ON M5S 3H1

Facilitators:Archana Sridhar, Assistant Provost, University of TorontoAlex Hernandez, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of English, University of TorontoIn recent years, higher education has the site of a number of contentious debates that place academic freedom in tension with broader EDI values. This presentation seeks to explore these tensions as they appear in the classroom, […]

Train-the-Trainer – Mastering Open Education

This event is open to all the University of Toronto community. Are you interested in Open Education? In this session, we will speak about how to understand, find, adapt, create, and share Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs can be used for your own learning spaces to help increase the quality and efficiency of your work […]

Monitor-Side Chats: UDL-ing in Winter 2024: UDL Guideline 8: Sustaining Effort & Persistence (accessing representation)

Name: CTSI Room 4035 Address: Robarts Library, 4th Floor 130 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H1

Discussions about practical applications and concrete strategies of Universal Design for LearningFor February 16th session: learn more about UDL Guideline #8: Provide Options for Sustaining Effort and Persistence (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/engagement/effort-persistence)The average student does not exist. So, how do we design learning environments that maximize learning for all students?Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/) is a framework for […]

Introduction to MS Co-Pilot

Presenter: Derek Hunt, Faculty Liaison, Teaching, Learning & Technology, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation. The University now offers eligible staff access to Microsoft Copilot, an advanced AI-powered chatbot and search engine. Unlike other chatbots, Copilot provides an enhanced user experience by responding to prompts with content and footnotes linked to original internet sources. It […]

Demystifying the Dossier: Drafting Your Statement of Teaching Philosophy

Facilitators: Cora McCloy, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, SoTL, CTSI Samantha Chang, Faculty Liaison, Anti-Racist Pedagogies, CTSI At 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 […]

Monitor-Side Chats: UDL-ing in Winter 2024: UDL Guideline 2: Language & Symbols (building representation)

Name: CTSI Room 4035 Address: Robarts Library, 4th Floor 130 St. George Street Toronto Ontario M5S 3H1

Discussions about practical applications and concrete strategies of Universal Design for LearningFor February 23rd session: learn more about UDL Guideline #2: Provide Options for Language and Symbols (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/representation/language-symbols)The average student does not exist. So, how do we design learning environments that maximize learning for all students?Universal Design for Learning (UDL) (https://udlguidelines.cast.org/) is a framework for minimizing […]

CFD Membership Mondays: Reflexive Case Scenario Development with Sacha Agrawal and Farah Friesen

Presented By: Centre for Faculty Development While case studies can be a helpful tool for teaching and learning in health professions education, without thoughtful consideration during their development, they can be harmful for the individuals they intend to represent. During this Membership Monday lunch and learn, we will engage in a dialogue about the importance […]

Teaching in Arts & Science Winter 2024 Lunch & Learn: Facilitating Peer Review and Feedback

Presented By: Faculty of Arts & Sciences  Peer review and feedback are essential for promoting student engagement, fostering a classroom community and encouraging critical thinking and collaborative learning. In this session, we will review some key concepts and considerations for facilitating peer review and feedback activities. We will also discuss effective strategies and tools to […]

A&S T&L Community of Practice: Skill-Building Activities and Student Support in STEM Courses

Presented By: Faculty of Arts & Science Registration Assessing gains in communication skills in a large online statistics course Presenters: Nathalie Moon and Samantha-Jo Caetano (Assistant Professors, Teaching Stream, Statistical Sciences) In 2020-22, our foundational first-year statistics course shifted to being offered fully online (~500 students/term). We conducted a study over this period to investigate […]

Generative AI Works in Progress Series- Cultivating Discernment in Skill Development in using ChatGPT

The Generative AI Works in Progress series is a new offering designed to encourage ongoing, open, institutional-level conversations about generative AI in teaching and learning. Over the Winter 2024 term, the series will offer a range of one-hour presentations targeted towards a broad teaching and learning audience where current questions, ideas, inquiries or works in […]

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