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POSTPONED - Reading Week is Over - Strategies to Maintain and Inspire Student Motivation - Feb. 26

Posted on 31 January 2024

Having trouble engaging, motivating and getting your students to participate in your classroom? Join us for a one hour workshop where we will explore strategies to inspire and maintain motivation in the classroom. Bring your ideas and be prepared to participate in a variety of activities designed to help you motivate your students. After this […]

Situational Awareness: Reducing Risk - Feb. 6

Posted on 26 January 2024

This is the second of two sessions in a series on "How to teach when teaching feels unsafe." The focus of this session is situational awareness, that is, how to use the space you are in (e.g. the classroom space) to protect yourself and reduce risk. Welcome to "Situational Awareness: Reducing Risk," a comprehensive workshop […]

Strategies for Meaningful Feedback on Student Reflection Winter 2024 (ONLINE)

Posted on 10 January 2024

Experiential education can be a transformative learning experience for many students. However, “just thinking or having an experience do not necessarily result in learning, but rather critical thinking and reflection support and facilitate the learning process.” (Whalen & Paez, 2019, p.56) Critical reflection can help students “integrate new understanding into [their] experiences in order to […]

Critical Reflection as a Learned/Learning Activity - Winter 2024 (ONLINE)

Posted on 10 January 2024

Students engaged in experiential education activities often benefit from opportunities for critical reflection. These reflection activities can encourage students to make meaningful connections between experiences and course material, while also developing skills in critical thinking, communicating new insights, and using new ideas to inform future actions. In this workshop, we will engage in discussions and […]

Classroom Strategies for When They Haven't Done the Readings (IN-PERSON) - Jan. 29

Posted on 6 January 2024

All prepared with activities to assess if students are following along in the course but instead find yourself engaged in a monologue with blank, vacant stares and silence. Have only some students done the assigned readings for the week? What do you do on such short notice to move the class forward? In this session, […]

Reflecting on a Semester of Teaching, Teaching Assistants - Jan. 24

Posted on 6 January 2024

After a semester of teaching what questions do you have remaining? Have you answered some of the questions you began with or perhaps your questions have changed? Come share your experiences with others and we will discuss different ways to reflect and document your work. Register for "Reflecting on a Semester of Teaching, Teaching Assistants, […]

How to Identify and Respond to Students in Distress - Jan. 23

Posted on 6 January 2024

This is the first of two sessions in a series on "How to teach when teaching feels unsafe." The focus of this session is supporting the mental health and well-being of your undergraduate students, graduate student peers, and yourself. Graduate students and graduate student support staff members have a role to play in student mental […]

Learn How to "DO" a Teaching Dossier - January 16

Posted on 6 January 2024

The teaching dossier or teaching portfolio is a condensed reflection of your teaching philosophy and accomplishments. It essentially serves as a tool that will provide evidence of your teaching quality and effectiveness. This session is intended to provide you with the basics of creating and assembling your own teaching dossier as well as an opportunity […]

Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation - January 17, 2024

Posted on 5 January 2024

Welcome to York as a graduate student and teaching assistant. To support you in your role as a teaching assistant, we are offering an orientation session for you to connect with a variety of resources across York, as well as your peers, other graduate students and teaching assistants. During the session, participants will learn, through […]

Introduction to Integrated Course Design for Graduate Students: Assessment - Dec. 12

Posted on 21 November 2023

Do you currently have a teaching ticket to teach a course, or are you interested in designing and teaching a course some day? In this workshop we will introduce a specific course design model, called the Integrated Course Design Model (Fink, 2003). This session will focus on one of the components of this model, assessment. […]