Marking and Assessment
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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This session will focus on developing and marking a variety of assessments, from in-class participation to term papers and exams. Discussion topics will include types and purposes of assessments, challenges in creating assessments, and how to clearly communicate assessment expectations to students. Participants will develop strategies for marking consistently, fairly, and efficiently. Facilitator: Janel Fergusson (more…)
Conversations with Distressed Students: Planning for the Anticipated and Unexpected
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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Working with and supporting a distressed student can be both challenging and rewarding. As a Teaching Assistant or peer helping a fellow grad student, how can you develop and use your skills of listening to, acknowledging, and supporting students in distress while at the same time maintaining appropriate boundaries? This interactive workshop will explore how (more…)
TA-Instructor Working Relationship
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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Teaching Assistants work closely with Instructors in a number of different roles throughout the term. This relationship can be viewed in a spectrum of ways from insightful, rewarding, and fun to stressful and frustrating. In this workshop, we explore how this TA-Instructor relationship can be structured through defining needs and expectations to build effective communication (more…)
Facilitating Discussions
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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Discussion is a valuable -and often inevitable- platform for engaging students in active learning of the course material. In this session we will discuss the advantages and challenges of using discussion as a teaching technique. We will then proceed to discussing and practicing some specific techniques and strategies that can be used to lead discussions (more…)
Having an Effective Relationship with your Supervisor
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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Have you ever wondered about strategies you can use to build strong relationships with your supervisor? Have you thought about ways of avoiding conflicts or managing them? If that is the case, this is the workshop for you! We will be describing important strategies for developing strong working relationships that support progress through your graduate (more…)
Time Management (in TAing)
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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There never seem to be enough hours in the day, as we juggle teaching, research, studying, writing, and other priorities as graduate students and teaching assistants. In this workshop, we will identify major time management challenges associated with TAing, discuss general strategies to manage the amount of time allotted for TA-related tasks, and devise practical (more…)
Presentation as a Teaching Tool
Series: Pro-D for Graduate Students
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This interactive workshop will give individuals the opportunity to work individually and collaboratively to think about ways to improve their presentation skills. Participants will gain concrete and proven strategies they can apply to their presentations. Facilitator: Mabel Ho This event is part of the 2016 CTLT Grad Institute. For more Grad Institute events, please click here. (more…)