May 3 (online) and May 4 (in-person)

May 3, 2023 (online)

9am-10:30am: President’s Welcome & Opening Address: Cultivating Belonging: Shifting from understanding to action

11am-12pm: Concurrent Session 1

Special Session: In Conversation with Graduate Student Course Instructor Teaching Excellence Award Shortlisted Nominees

Inquiry on Teaching and Learning Talk 1

  • A Collaborative Imagining of an Inclusive Psychology Classroom
  • Designing Inclusive Q&A Forums: Considering Prior Experience to Support All Students

Lightning Talks 1

  • Promoting Sociality, Active Learning & Academic Integrity with Scalable Class Presentations
  • Communicating to Meaningful Audience Beyond the University: The Knowledge Translation Project
  • Assessment as Invitation: Longing, belonging, and graduate writing at FASE

1pm-2pm: Concurrent Session 2

Inquiry on Teaching and Learning Talk 2

  • Thinking Forward, Looking Back: A Student-Faculty Project in Support of Curriculum Analysis
  • Factors Affecting Experiential Learning Experiences of University Students with Disabilities

Lightning Talks 2

  • Giving the Script: Using Short Films in Final Exams
  • Strengthening Inclusive student teams in a Capstone course by co-creating an Inclusive Team Contract that articulates specific behaviours
  • Embedding and Scaling Writing Instruction Across First- and Second-Year Computer Science Courses

Interactive Online Workshop: Global Classrooms: An approach to make global learning more accessible

2:30pm-3:30pm: Concurrent Sessions 3

Lightning Talks 3

  • The content and outcomes of a 20-minute sex- and gender-inclusive language session to promote inclusivity and belonging in the classroom, professional practice labs, and experiential learning
  • Helping Students Help Themselves: learning skills, mental health, and community in first-year math courses
  • Reimagining science education through digital storytelling with tangible objects

Lightning Talks 4

  • Questioning Readings as a Reflective Strategy
  • Assessment as/for Learning: Two-Stage Tests
  • “Literature Is ALIVE!”: Building Belonging Through Critical Ecological Hope in a Community-Engaged Seminar Project

Symposium You: Conveying Commitments to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Access and Community Engagement

4pm-5pm: Concurrent Sessions 4

Symposium You: Accessibility at Scale

Interactive Online Workshop: Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy: Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Learning Space

Special Session: Minority-centric pedagogical design and theatre-as-pedagogy

Thursday, May 4, 2023 (in-person)

Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, ON

8am-9:30am: Continental Breakfast

9am-10am: Concurrent Session 5

Special Session: Action Taken! Belonging Success Stories and Strategies: inclusive, holistic programming designs for graduate students

Symposium You: Integrating EDI into the instructional design of an academic writing course: A critical reflection

Interactive Workshop: Four Perspectives from the FLIP Project: Building Equitable Belonging through Experiential Learning and Collaborative OER Design

10:30am-11:30am: Concurrent Session 6

Special Roundtable Session with Andratesha Friztgerald and U of T Educational Developers and EDIA Staff

Interactive Workshop: Learning in Community: Building Belonging through Integrated Peer Mentorship

Interactive Workshop: Unlearning Environment: Engaging Indigenous Perspectives in Environmental Sciences

Special Session: Tensions Between EDI and Academic Freedom in the Classroom: An Interactive Exploration of Two Case Studies

11:45am-12:45pm: Lunch

1pm-3:30pm: Provost Remarks and Interactive Closing Plenary

Power and Empowerment: Honouring by Decision and Design
Andratesha Fritzgerald, Strategic Partner – Building Blocks of Brilliance

View full Agenda. Visit registration site.

Any questions concerning TLS2023 can be directed to tls@utoronto.ca.

If you have any accommodation needs (or dietary restrictions for those attending lunch), please let us know.