Designing Impactful Activities for Online Learning
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Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. Especially with online teaching, we as instructors and TAs need to work extra hard to bring our students in to each and every lesson. We know that teaching and learning online is difficult, so how can we ensure that the quality of (more…)
Online Presentation and Lecturing Skills
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Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. With the shift to online teaching and learning, TAs are being asked to deliver material through new mediums. In this module we will focus on how to avoid common missteps when we’re tasked to do this, and to better make use of (more…)
Marking and Feedback: Providing Oral Feedback Online & Written Feedback on Essays
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Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. In this session we will develop strategies to provide oral and written feedback on written assessments of student learning. We will apply student motivation and current approaches to learning theory to create best practices for providing feedback. Finally, we will devise (more…)
Exploring and Expanding the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion work of TAs at UBC – May 25, 2020
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Please note, this session is part of the CTLT TA Institute for UBC graduate students and teaching assistants. For a complete list of sessions visit institute.ctlt.ubc.ca. Please click “Register Now” to register for this event. This event will be online on Blackboard Collaborate. Exploring and expanding the equity, diversity & inclusion (EDI) in the work (more…)
Strategies to Prevent and Manage Issues Related to Technology
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Please note, this session is part of the CTLT TA Institute for UBC graduate students and teaching assistants. For a complete list of sessions visit institute.ctlt.ubc.ca. Please click “Register Now” to register for this event. This event will be online on Blackboard Collaborate. In this session, we will explore common issues TAs face in remote (more…)
TAing Large Synchronous Classrooms Online
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Please note, this session is part of the CTLT TA Institute for UBC graduate students and teaching assistants. For a complete list of sessions visit institute.ctlt.ubc.ca. Please click “Register Now” to register for this event. This event will be online on Blackboard Collaborate. TAs have been facing unique challenges TAing large, synchronous, online classes. This (more…)
Transitioning Online Amid Crisis: How Canvas Can Help
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Please note, this session is part of the CTLT TA Institute for UBC graduate students and teaching assistants. For a complete list of sessions visit institute.ctlt.ubc.ca. Please click “Register Now” to register for this event. This event will be online on Blackboard Collaborate. In this session we will explore the tools available in Canvas and how to use (more…)
TA Workflow and Time Management in an Online Environment
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Please note, this session is part of the CTLT TA Institute for UBC graduate students and teaching assistants. For a complete list of sessions visit institute.ctlt.ubc.ca. Please click “Register Now” to register for this event. This event will be online on Blackboard Collaborate. TAs have expressed feeling overwhelmed trying to hold office hours, manage full (more…)
Resetting Expectations for Online Learning
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Please note, this session is part of the CTLT TA Institute for UBC graduate students and teaching assistants. For a complete list of sessions visit institute.ctlt.ubc.ca. Please click “Register Now” to register for this event. This event will be online on Blackboard Collaborate. This session will address some of the changes to the role of (more…)
Supporting Student Awareness of Learning: Using Metacognition as a Tool in Teaching – February 11, 2020
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***Note: This session is intended for Graduate Students, and Undergraduate and Graduate TAs only. We invite Faculty and Staff to sign up for our sessions during CTLT’s Spring, Summer, and Winter Institutes. This session is rescheduled from January 15, 2020. Are your students constantly asking you why they got this mark? In this session we (more…)