Back to TAGSA Teaching as an International Teaching Assistant As an international student enrolled in a teaching certificate program and teaching development courses, I was given exciting opportunities to teach both micro-teaching sessions and a unit within an undergraduate course. These programs introduced me to the scholarly literature on teaching and learning and how I…
Back to TAGSA Walking the Path of Technical Teaching Assistants? The Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics has created two niche programs, namelyMaster in Environmental Economics & Management and a Master of Science in Environmental Economics & Management. These programs have garnered significant interest from students nationwide due to their distinctiveness. The programs are being delivered using a hybrid approach to accommodate the…
Back to TAGSA TAGSA Award for an Outstanding Conference Session Led by a Graduate Student The recipient of the TAGSA Award for an Outstanding Conference Session Led by a Graduate Student for 2023 is Kevin Prada from McGill University for their session titled: “Vers La Réussite: Screening and Navigation Service Pilot Study for At-Risk Postsecondary…
2022 TAGSA Award Recipient The recipient of the TAGSA Award for an Outstanding Conference Session Led by a Graduate Student for 2022 is Adil Arshad from the University of Calgary for his session titled: Engaging Graduate Students as Partners in Educational Development: Lessons from a Survey of Canadian TLCs. In Adil’s session, he shared his…
Hello/Bonjour/ Kwe’ From land to sea, sea to land, and in some cases from sea to land to plate! If you’re looking for a uniquely Prince Edward Island experience, look no further. Welcome to the Mussel & Lobster Shore Boil located in the beautiful neighborhood of Cardigan at 144 Dockendorf Lane. Join retired fisherman Jim…
Brightspace Training and the Perceived Benefits of GTAs In the last academic year, I have been working as a Learning Technology Coach (LTC) at the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Memorial University, where I am also completing my PhD program in engineering. LTCs support instructors in using tools in their course…
Presentations Opening event and opening keynote speaker (Dr. Jessica Riddell) Closing event: 3M National Student Fellow Plenary STLHE Welcome Event STLHE Banquet
Your Success is My Success: A Short Story of Diverse Learning The continuous satisfaction of mutual learning and passing knowledge on to another generation. That is my answer when people ask why I applied to become a teaching assistant. That feeling of joy when you fulfill your duty of passing on knowledge acquired through hard…
A lot has changed in our understanding of and approach to teaching and learning in higher education, since the 2010 publication of Taking Stock: Research on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. And yet, much has stayed the same (despite the current pandemic). We have “taken stock” once again – of what we know now, what…
The book has been described in The Teaching Professor as “(…) a marvelous affirmation of how teaching inspires, enriches and satisfies both teachers and students. If you need a shot in your teaching arm, this book will supply it.”
This book explores many of the silences that inhabit teaching and learning—the deep silence shrouding what is not said, the stifling silence of those who do not have a say, those magical silences when the most meaningful learning can occur.
The students who contributed to this book have written from every province in Canada, from abroad, and from a wide range of disciplines and professions and believe future students can be inspired by their stories of discovery, inspiration, and transformation.
Live Transcripts Aren’t for Everyone I recently discovered and became fascinated by the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). I really like the fact that courses designed with UDL in mind typically offer students choice and aim to break down barriers to learning for students. On the CAST website, which is filled with amazing…
Call for Submissions—TAGSA Snapshots of Practice TAGSA, a special interest group of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), is soliciting first-person essays written by teaching assistants (TAs), graduate assistants (GAs), and graduate students (GS). The essays may cover a wide range of topics centred on teaching and learning practices at Canadian…
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Attention: Please submit your nominations by April 24, 2020 Dear SoTL Canada Members, It is election time for the SoTL Canada Executive and two positions are open: Chair Advisor on Student Engagement Each position’s term of office is two years, with a maximum of two consecutive terms, beginning June 2020. Any member…
2019 AGM Minutes When: Wednesday June 12th, 2019 – 12:40 pm to 1:40 pm Central Time Zone Where: Winnipeg RBC Convention Centre, York 4 Reference Material: 2018 AGM Minutes SoTL Regional Groups – Survey Summary Results SoTL Canada By-Laws Call to Order and Welcome The Chair (B. McCollum) opened the AGM with a welcome and…
The winner of the TAGSA Award for an Outstanding Conference Session Led by a Graduate Student for 2019 is Gerry Gourlay from the University of Victoria for her session titled: Culture Shift: The Four-Year Transformation of Teaching in a Biology Department. In Gerry’s session, she shared her experience of shifting the teaching culture in the…
The Blind Reviewing the Blind By: Dr. Magdalen Normandeau The blind leading the blind seems like a bad idea. Is the blind reviewing the blind any better? The argument in favour of the double-blind review process is that reviewers can’t be impartial if they know who the authors are. If the authors are well-known and…
The Joys of Guest-Lecturing as a Graduate Student By Adrian Taylor, MSc ‘I need you to teach my class.’ That was the phrase that I heard as a graduate student at the University of Guelph a couple of Januarys ago. It can be a scary sentence to hear as a graduate student. This is particularly…
On June 22, 2018, on the last day of the STLHE conference in Sherbrooke, QC, the TAGSA award for outstanding conference session led by a graduate student was given to Michelle Ogrodnik for her “My research in 300 seconds” session, titled “The era of screens, sitting, and studying: Harnessing the benefits of exercise to promote…
