Teaching and Learning Development Workshops

CST offers an ongoing series of teaching and learning seminars, workshops, and public lectures for faculty members and teaching assistants at all levels of experience.

Who Can Attend?

Please check the workshop description for intended audience. Most workshops are open to both faculty members and teaching assistants, but some are intended specifically for one group, and may even be restricted. This information will be posted on the workshop description page.

Where Can I Find Workshop Handouts?

Handouts, recordings and other resources can be found linked to the workshops below.

How Do I Register?

You can register for our workshops online.

Workshop Schedule 2009-10

September: Getting Started

Workshops
Date	Title
Thursday, September 3, 2009	Planning Your Lecture: How to Do It Efficiently and Effectively Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 1009 TEL
Thursday, September 10, 2009	Getting to Analysis: The Role of Course Outlines and Assignments in Modelling Academic Practices Harriet Rosenberg (LA&PS/Social Science; Writing Department; LA&PS/Health and Society Program; LA&PS/SOSC TA Foundations Coordinator) 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Monday, September 14, 2009	Establishing Effective Working Relationships between Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Course Directors (CDs) Cherie Bova (Associate Director, CST) John Paul Foxe (Graduate Teaching Associate 2009) 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Tuesday, September 15, 2009	Planning Your Tutorial: How to Do It Efficiently and Effectively Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, September 17, 2009	TEL@YORK Series: Teaching Business Online: 2009 MERLOT Award-Winning Learning Site Louise Ripley (2009 MERLOT Business Editorial Board Classics Award winner; LA&PS/School of Administrative Studies; School of Women′s Studies) 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Monday, September 21, 2009	Student/TA Interactions: Preparing for the Unexpected John Paul Foxe (Graduate Teaching Associate 2009) Paul Chafe (Biology, TDGA 2008-2009) 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, September 24, 2009	Strategies for Engaging Classroom Interaction Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL

October: In the Classroom

Workshops
Date	Title
Monday, October 5, 2009	Making the Grade Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
CANCELLED Tuesday, October 6, 2009	Teaching Award Winners Teaching Philosophies Part 1 Hamzeh Roumani (2009 3M National Teaching Fellowship winner; FSE/Computer Science) 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Wednesday, October 7, 2009	The Impostor Phenomenon for Teaching Assistants Diane Zorn (Schulich) 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Monday, October 19, 2009	Critical Thinking and Critical Skills: Approaches and Strategies Tom Greenwald (LA&PS; Writing Department) 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 1014 TEL
Monday, October 19, 2009	Really Useful Research on Student Learning, and How To Use It in Your Teaching Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Wednesday, October 21, 2009	TA Conversation Lunches 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 1009 TEL
Thursday, October 22, 2009	Microteaching Session 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1009 TEL
Monday, October 26, 2009	Handling Conflict, Anger and Emotion in the Classroom Diane Zorn (Schulich) 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Tuesday October 27, 2009	TEL@YORK Series: Online Strategies for Keeping Students on Track Anne MacLennan (Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of LA&PS) 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Friday, October 30, 2009	Teaching Award Winners Teaching Philosophies Part 1&2 Hamzeh Roumani (2009 3M National Teaching Fellowship winner; FSE/Computer Science) 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 1014 TEL

November: Supporting Learning for all Students

Workshops
Date	Title
Monday, November 2, 2009	Prevent plagiarism before it happens! Tools you can use to promote academic honesty Sarah Coysh (E-Learning Librarian, Leslie Frost Library) 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, November 5, 2009	Taking the ‘Duh’ Out of Dossiers: for TAs Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LAPS/Writing Programs) 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., 1014 TEL
Friday, November 13, 2009	Tips for Detecting Breaches of Academic Dishonesty Efficiently & Effectively in Written Work 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Tuesday, November 17, 2009	Providing Effective Feedback for Student Writing John Spencer (Writing Department, Faculty of LA&PS) 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Wednesday, November 18, 2009	Diversity in the Classroom 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Wednesday, November 18, 2009	TA Conversation Lunches 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 1009 TEL
Thursday, November 19, 2009	Microteaching Session 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1009 TEL
Friday, November 27, 2009	Becoming Your Own 'Dream TA' 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL

December: Professional Development

Workshops
Date	Title
Friday, December 4, 2009	Just in-time Course Design Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 9:30 - 3:30 p.m., 1014 TEL
Monday, December 7, 2009	Taking the 'Duh' out of Dossiers: Faculty Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 2:00 - 4:00, in 280A York Lanes
Wednesday, December 9, 2009	T&P - Process and Documentation Terry Carter (Assistant Secretary of the University, University Secretariat) 10:30 - 12:30 a.m., 1014 TEL

January: Professional Development

Workshops
Date	Title
Monday, January 11, 2010	Establishing Effective Working Relationships between Teaching Assistants (TAs) and Course Directors (CDs) Cherie Bova (Associate Director, CST), John Paul Foxe (Graduate Teaching Associate 2009) 1:00 - 3:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, January 14, 2010	York University's Governance Structure Harriet Lewis (University Secretary and General Counsel) 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Wednesday, January 20, 2010	TA Conversation Lunches 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 1009 TEL
Wednesday, January 20, 2010	TEL@York Series: Designing Student Centered, Highly Interactive, Online, Rich Media Courses Diane Zorn (LAPS/Administrative Studies & Humanities; Schulich School of Business) 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, January 21, 2010	Fundamentals of Course Design Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LAPS/Writing Programs) 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Friday, January 22, 2010	Working with Moodle as a TA Anne MacLennan, Denese Gascho, Irena Knezevic, and Naveen Joshi 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Wednesday, January 27, 2010	TEL@YORK Series: Using Moodle and Clickers to Engage Students in Large First-Year Courses Mary Armour (FSE/Natural Science) 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, January 28, 2010	Microteaching Session 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1009 TEL

February:

Workshops
Date	Title
Tuesday, February 2, 2010	TEL@York Series: A Conceptual Framework with TEL for Learning Management Accounting or Other Quantitative Courses Gary Spraakman (School of Administrative Studies, Faculty of LA&PS) 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, February 11, 2010	Selecting and Employing Cases for Student Learning Marie-Helene Budworth (School of Human Resource Management, LA&PS Master, New College, LA&PS) 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Monday, February 22, 2010 WILL BE RESCHEDULED	Making the Grade Ros Woodhouse (Academic Director/CST, LA&PS/Writing Department) 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1014 TEL
Monday, February 22, 2010	Improving Student Writing: Classroom Strategies John Spencer (Writing Department, Faculty of LA&PS 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m., 1014 TEL
Thursday, February 25, 2010	Microteaching Session 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1009 TEL

March

Workshops
Date	Title
Wednesday, March 17, 2010	TA Conversation Lunches 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 1009 TEL
Thursday, March 25, 2010	Microteaching Session 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1009 TEL

April

Workshops
Date	Title
Thursday, April 22, 2010	Microteaching Session 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 1009 TEL

May

Workshops
Date	Title
Thursday May 6 - Friday May 7, 2010	Course Design Institute 9:30 a.m. – 3:030 p.m., 1014 TEL

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