Teaching & Learning

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Graduate Students 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 

2025-2026 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.

Own Your Future Conference on Teaching

May 14 - Full Day Event *online/virtual*

Offered in partnership with the Centre for Teaching & Learning, this year's conference theme is Future-Ready Teaching: Creativity, Confidence, and Community Care in a Changing Landscape.

Graduate educators are teaching in and through a world marked by rapid change, including new technologies, shifting student needs, evolving learning environments, and expanding possibilities of what teaching can be. This year's conference theme, Future-Ready Teaching, offers graduate students and postdoctoral scholars the time and space to explore how we can approach teaching with curiosity, flexibility, and a sense of shared purpose as we consider what practices we want to bring forward with us in this moment.

This year's full day conference (online via Zoom with optional in-person watch party) is designed to celebrate the many ways graduate educators are already shaping the future of teaching through their curiosity, expertise, and commitment to their values. We welcome proposals that highlight practical strategies, creative experiments, and reflective insights that help us teach with confidence and care-whether in classrooms, labs, tutorials, community settings, or digital spaces.

At this conference, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars may earn up to a total of two (2) Future Prof credits for the Western Certificate in University Teaching and Learning. More information can be found by clicking the registration links below, or visiting the CTL's Own Your Future: Conference on Teaching webpage

 

more Teaching & Learning resources for grad students

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.