Lightning Talk – TLS 2021

A part of 5.2: Lightning Talk session. Positionality Through Reflection on Connections With Land Kerry Taylor, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies, FAS Sabeen Kazmi, PhD Candidate (CRI364 Teaching Assistant), Centre for Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies, FAS The session will focus on description, discussion and reflection upon an assignment called, “Connecting and Learning With Land” for CRI364, “Indigenous Peoples & Criminal Justice” (undergraduate 300-level course) at the Centre for Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies. Course facilitator, Professor Kerry Taylor, and teaching assistant, Sabeen Kazmi will share and discuss this assignment in terms of pedagogy, learning objectives, evaluation, [...]

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 3.2: Lightning Talk session. Promoting Wellness and Resiliency for Forensic Science Students Karen Woodall, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Anthropology/Forensic Science, UTM Andrea Carter, Assistant Dean, Student Wellness, Support & Success, UTM Students face many diverse stresses and mental health challenges during university and introducing a way to reflect and increase awareness of this topic can help students develop healthy coping skills and habits, increasing their wellness. This presentation showcases a “nifty assignment” that aims to educate undergraduate students about stress, wellness and resiliency. The assignment was introduced into a third-year course and involved students [...]

A part of 4.2: Lightning Talk session. “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words”: Preparing Future Nurses to Effectively Communicate Health-Information with Infographics Zoraida Beekhoo, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Charlene Chu, RN, GNC(c), PhD, Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Lindsay Jibb, RN, PhD, CPHON, Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Neal MacInnes, Academic Information and Communication Technology Supervisor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Infographics serve as an effective way to present complex data in a visual format that is compelling, provides rapidly available information, 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 4.2: Lightning Talk session. The Last Class Workshop – A Versatile Tool for Course Evaluation and Evolution Erin Styles, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Molecular Genetics Recognizing that the last session of class at the end of the term is often not very materially productive, I have searched for a way to make this last class meaningful and functional for both me and my students. In this session, I will describe a modified workshop first developed by Dr. Elizabeth Bleicher at Ithaca College as a means of obtaining real-time, in-person or virtual course evaluations, and driving course evolution [...]

A part of 4.3: Lightning Talk session. TAs as Learners: Promoting Reflective Teaching in an Informal Learning Community Jacqueline Smith, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, FAS Mario Badr, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, FAS In this session, we will present the TA training program we have implemented in a large first-year course (CSC108). We have run this training program both in-person and online. The goals of this program are to encourage TAs to reflect on their teaching, and to build a stronger TA community. We expect that our TAs are well-versed in the subject matter [...]

A part of 4.3: Lightning Talk session. Development of Graduate Student Pedagogy Through Practical Application and Partnership with High School Educators in the Discovery Educational Platform Dawn Kilkenny, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) & ISTEP Nicolas Ivanov, Doctoral candidate, IBME Nhien Tran-Nguyen, Master of Applied Science candidate, IBME Neal Callaghan, IBME, Doctoral candidate, IBME Theresa Frost, TDSB ACL Science & STEAM, Discovery/ISTEP Locke Davenport Huyer, Post-doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University The evolving academic landscape requires skills beyond traditional research, therefore graduate students in STEM require broad opportunities to develop and improve translatable skillsets. [...]

A part of 3.2: Lightning Talk session. Departmental approaches to increasing awareness and decreasing stigma towards mental health in faculty and students Charlotte Pashley, Administrative Staff, Pharmacology & Toxicology Michelle Arnot, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Pharmacology & Toxicology Vince Lam, Instructor, Pharmacology & Toxicology Aleksandra Marakhovskaia, Graduate Student, Pharmacology & Toxicology Alison Jee, Graduate Student, Pharmacology & Toxicology Ruth Ross, Professor and Chair, Pharmacology & Toxicology The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology has developed a toolkit of diverse approaches to help increase awareness of and decrease stigmatization towards mental health issues for both students and faculty. This [...]

A part of 3.2: Lightning Talk session. Utilizing Critical Reflection and Experiential Learning to unite Global Virtual Teams Elham Marzi, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, ISTEP, FASE Anuli Ndubuisi, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto This session will explore a strategy initially developed to support International Virtual Engineering Student Teams (InVEST) program. The InVEST program offers applied research opportunities for senior undergraduate (4th year) and Masters students. Students in the program engage in virtual research teams with counterparts at other universities around the globe. The learning-strategy used in InVEST’s modules have a multipronged approach to [...]