2.2

A part of 2.2 Lightning Talk session Krista Maxwell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, FAS Katherine Patton, Assistant Professor Teaching Stream, Anthropology, FAS As anthropologists, we are increasingly aware of the importance of challenging our discipline’s historical and ongoing complicity in settler colonialism in our teaching as well as our research. Here, we propose a teaching model that centers often marginalized expertise and experience as a tool for learning disciplinary historical consciousness and reflexivity that may be of interest to other disciplines. At the heart of our newly-developed online course Anthropologists & Indigenous Peoples in North America are five guest [...]

A part of 2.2 Lightning Talk session Naomi Levy-strumpf, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS Maria Papaconstantinou, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS Asking a good question is not a trivial task. It requires deep comprehension and concept integration. To facilitate critical thinking and mastering of foundational concepts in a large Genetics course (~1000 students), we decided to actively engage students in question creation. We used “Quizzical”, an online platform developed by Prof. Dan Riggs. Via this platform, students are tasked with the creation of multiple-choice questions. For each of the suggested answer choices, [...]

A part of 2.2 Lightning Talk session William Ju, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS Ron Wilson Jr. Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Human Biology Program, FAS During the shift to online teaching use of the use of student chats during synchronous delivery and Discussion Boards for asynchronous engagement have increased greatly. These platforms, among many, are powerful ways for students to engage in peer to peer teaching and learning. One of the teaching methods that we have previously employed in courses (both online and in-person), has been to incorporate intentional mistakes as well as introducing misconceptions [...]

A part of 2.2: Lightning Talk session. Assignments Across Disciplines: Creating a Community of Practice around Assessment Andrea Williams, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, FAS Erin Vearncombe, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Dean’s Office, FAS Assignments play a vital role in both helping students acquire new knowledge and skills and documenting teaching excellence. This session explains how you can become involved in Assignments Across Disciplines (AAD), a university-wide LEAF-funded project that gives instructors a platform to share assignments and adapt colleagues’ assignments to fit their own teaching and learning goals and context. Combining an open-access database of exemplary and [...]

A part of 2.2: Lightning Talk session. Promoting Knowledge Translation and Engagement with Social Justice Issues Through a Digital Policy Brief Julius Haag, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Sociology, UTM Bringing academic knowledge into dialogue with policy issues and diverse publics remains central in sociology and criminology (Buroway, 2004). Further, the current climate of ‘post-truth’ has presented unique challenges to scholars and a pressing need to broadly share our findings and be active participants in public debates (Peterson, 2016). In my 3rd year ‘Sociology of Crime’ course, I asked students to develop digital policy briefs that addressed a [...]

A part of 2.2: Lightning Talk session. Physical Sciences Research Experience – a model for co-designing lab experiences with students, for students Kris Kim, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Physical & Environmental Sciences, UTSC Effie Sauer, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Physical & Environmental Sciences, UTSC Lana Mikhaylichenko, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Physical & Environmental Sciences, UTSC Laboratory courses have traditionally served as opportunities to support students’ development across a wide range of skills, while also offering spaces to be creative, for both students and faculty alike. While creating new laboratory exercises can be exciting and rewarding, offering new [...]