Teaching & Learning

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PhDs Who Excel in Teaching & Learning: 

Master Complex Topics

You excel at acquiring a deep understanding of subjects and ideas, and can distill information for a variety of audiences. 

Design Learner-Centered Experiences

You design inclusive and engaging learning resources or experiences to meet the needs of a variety of learners.

Provide Meaningful Assessment 

You create assessments that measure learners' progress and provide feedback that improves learners' performance.

Innovate in Teaching

You explore emerging trends in your field and advance your teaching skillset to implement new approaches and innovations in the classroom.   

 

Assess Your Teaching & Learning Skills 

2024-2025 own your future schedule 

Centre for Teaching & Learning Offerings for Graduate Students

Participating in these seminars will support your achievement of the Own Your Future Teaching & Learning outcomes: designing learner-centred experiences; providing meaningful assessment; mastering complex topics; and innovating in teaching.

Future Prof Series - Centre for Teaching & Learning

This series of interactive seminars provides valuable insight into teaching and career-strategies across the disciplines. The workshops in this series are constantly evolving to meet the current interests of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, and to align with emerging trends and best practices.

Recognizing Knowledge Injustice in 'Higher' Education and Beyond

October 7, 9:30am-11:00am *online/virtual*

This session, offered by the Centre for Teaching and Learning's Future Prof Series, will cover topics that are critical for professional development under the pillar of Teaching & Learning (for example, designing meaningful, learner-centered experiences). This session also aligns with professional development outcomes under the Leadership pillar, such as acting with integrity and accountability, and applying EDIDA practices.

We may live in an information society, but so much of what we see, read, and hear is dominated by socially privileged perspectives. This workshop teaches you to recognize the implicit biases built into social media, search engines, generative AI algorithms, and even into academic research. Recognizing epistemic injustices, or injustices related to knowledge, can be difficult because sometimes bias is more evidence in what we don't see, rather than what we do.

By the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to:

-Define epistemic injustice, including epistemicide

-Recognize how epistemic injustice influences everything we watch, read, listen to, and access, including academic research

-Consider how epistemic injustice impacts your scholarship or discipline

Presenter: Heather Campbell, Associate Librarian – Teaching and Learning, Curriculum

Exploring GenAI in Teaching: Aligning Practice with Pedagogical Values

October 7, 12:30pm-1:00pm *online*

This is Part 1 of our Fall Spark Series: Exploring GenAI. These 30-minute virtual sessions will explore generative AI from multiple lenses within the 5 pillars of Own Your Future.

As educators, we can adopt a values-based approach to conversations about, and exploration with, GenAI in our classrooms. This session invites participants to consider whether and how GenAI use aligns with your values as an educator and how those values might inform decisions about GenAI adoption.

Facilitator: Mandy Penney, Associate Director - Teaching Programs, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Learn more about the full series at the link below.

Exploring GenAI in Academics: Smarter Scholarship with Smart Tools

October 21, 12:30pm-1:00pm *online*

This is Part 3 of our Fall Spark Series: Exploring GenAI. These 30-minute virtual sessions will explore generative AI from multiple lenses within the 5 pillars of Own Your Future.

In this session you will discover how GenAI can support literature reviews, writing, and research processes without compromising academic standards.

Facilitator: Ehsan Ur Rahman Mohammed, PhD Student, Computer Science

Learn more about the full series at the link below.

Own Your Future: Conference on Teaching

Annually in May - dates TBA *online/virtual*

The Own Your Future: Conference on Teaching is a special half-day annual event offered in collaboration with the Centre for Teaching & Learning. Participants are invited to join one or more conference sessions to enhance skill areas related to teaching & learning, set personal goals for growth, and connect teaching experiences to their overall professional development as graduate students. 

More information can be found on the dedicated CTL webpage here.

 

more Teaching & Learning resources for phds

Teaching Assistant Training Program

The CTL offers a variety of professional development opportunities for graduate students to strengthen their teaching skills.

Teaching Mentor Program

Cohort-based hands-on learning experience, wherein participants observe and offer feedback on one another's teaching.

Future Prof              Series

These interactive seminars for future professors and professionals provide valuable insight into teaching and career-strategies across the disciplines.

Advanced Teaching Program

20-hour short course designed for advanced graduate students who would like to develop practical teaching skills for current and future teaching roles.

Developing Your Teaching Dossier 

Four-module online self-paced series for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows exploring strategies to reflect on their teaching and develop their teaching dossier.

SGPS 9500: The Theory and Practice of University Teaching

SGPS 9500 is a graduate level credit course on teaching and learning in higher education.