University of Toronto’s Teaching and Learning Symposium
What is a Classroom?
May 22 and 23, 2024
Special thank you to Professors, Ahmed Allahwala, Ariel Chan, Leanne De Souza-Kenney, Spyridon Kotsovilis, and Jon Johnson who opened the Symposium by contributing to the Opening Plenary Panel: What is a Classroom? Five Faculty Perspectives, and to our closing keynote Garfield Gini-Newman, Associate Professor, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, OISE who led the final Interactive Plenary: Finding the Balance: Learning spaces that promote rigour and kindness. Our event is richer for the conversations and reflections you encouraged.
Thank you as well to our colleagues in the Centre for Community Partnerships, Jennifer Esmail, Heather Hermant, and Michelle Christian, who planned and facilitated a special stream dedicated to community-engaged learning, and to Clare Gilderdale and Jennifer Evans in the Office of the Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education who devised a special way to honour and recognize our institutional teaching award winners.
We would also like to extend our gratitude to the Rotman School of Management and Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking, in particular Leticia Yakabi, for assistance in planning the in-person portion of this event and use of their beautiful space.
And finally – many thanks to all of you! Your thoughtful contributions and meaningful engagement are what drive the success of this event.
We would like to acknowledge and thank the following:
TLS 2024 Organizing Committee
Alison Gibbs
Megan Burnett
Kathleen Olmstead
Kelly Gordon
TLS 2024 Reviewers
Diane Ashbourne
Lindsay Baker
Corinne Bent-Womack
Cindy Blois
Andrew Bomberry
Alex Bowie
Amanda Brijmohan
Heather Bruce
David Chan
Samantha Chang
Nadine Clarke
Liz Coulson
Veronica Curran
Cristina D’Amico
Alli Diskin
Reshma Dhrodia
Jennifer Esmail
Justin Fletcher
Sherry Fukuzawa
Terry Gardiner
Kelly Gordon
Amanda Greer
Jonathan Hamilton Diabo
Al Hearn
Will Heikoop
Heather Hermant
Certina Ho
Mike Kasprzak
Sarah Kloke
Cheryl Lepard
Naomi Levy-Strumpf
Anna Limanni
Alex Logue
Angela Mashford Pringle
Cora McCloy
Alexandra Motut
Reggie Oey
Kathleen Olmstead
Sun Ooi
Krystle Phirangee
Jessie Richards
David Roberts
Jasjit Sangha
Olivier St-Cyr
Linda Trinh
Yuxin Tu
Andrea Williams
Alicja Wigglesworth
Volunteers (concurrent session hosts, website development, tech support, presenter support)
Christie Barron
Elias Barboza Polcheira
Megan Burnett
Shenae Clarke
Cora McCloy
Michelle Christian
Cristina D’Amico
Alli Diskin
Jennifer Esmail
Navroop Gill
Kelly Gordon
Heather Hermant
Will Heikoop
Jordan Holmes
Derek Hunt
Anh Huynh
Mike Kasprzak
Kathleen Olmstead
Marko Piljevic
Maryam Shafiei
Jasjit Sangha
Insha Sohail
Paul Steacy
Shayne Train
Derek Wilson
Yuxin Tu
Laura Vanderkraan