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  • Welcome to TLS2026

    Name: McLeod Auditorium (MS 2158) Address:

    President Melanie Woodin welcomes attendees to Signal to Noise: Tuning in to What Matters in Teaching, the 20th Teaching and Learning Symposium. 

  • Mixed signals: A conversation on building productive dialogue in the classroom

    Name: McLeod Auditorium (MS 2158) Address:

    Christopher Eisgruber, Professor of Law, President of Princeton University Charlie Keil, Professor, Cinema Studies Institute and Department of History, Principal of Innis College In an age of deepening political and social divides, classroom conversations can easily accelerate into problematic territory. How do we create the conditions for students to disagree productively, and what's the role of academic freedom and open inquiry in getting there? Join Christopher Eisgruber, Professor of Law, President of Princeton University, and author of the recently published Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right and U of T's Charlie Keil, Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute [...]

  • Teaching Excellence Unplugged with the President’s Teaching Academy

    Name: McLeod Auditorium (MS 2158) Address:

    Moderator: Jennifer Campbell, Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair, Undergraduate, Computer Science, FAS Panelists:  Andy Dicks, Professor, Teaching Stream, Chemistry, FAS   Karen Reid, Professor, Teaching Stream, Computer Science, FAS  Maria Assif, Professor, Teaching Stream, English, UTSC   Jennifer Murdock, Professor, Teaching Stream, Economics, FAS Join members of the President's Teaching Academy (PTA) for an open, candid conversation about their teaching journeys; what they've learned, what they've let go of, and what they'd tell their first-year selves. The PTA is comprised of winners of the President's Teaching Award (https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/presidents-teaching-award). 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of this award, the highest honour for teaching at [...]

  • Lunch (please select if attending lunch)

    Name: Boxed Lunch (to go) Address:

    Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions (https://tls.utoronto.ca/please-let-us-know/). 

  • 1.2 Tuning In Sessions

    Name: Rotman School of Management Room 142 Address:

    1.2.1 Reflecting through Relationships: A Grounded Theory of Professional Identity Development in Work-Integrated Learning Ainsley Goldman, Experiential Learning & Professional Development, Experiential Learning Educational Developer, FAS Amplifying the Signal: Connection, Engagement, and Civil Discourse Work-integrated learning (WIL) is regarded as a panacea for incorporating students into the workforce, but scholars have called for more explicit curriculum and reflection related to professional identity development. Reflection is well-established in WIL curriculum, predominantly through graded written reflection assignments, but there is preliminary evidence that assessed reflections can become performative. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, this research project explored the question: how is professional [...]

  • 1.6 A Conversation on Teaching with U of T’s Emerging Educators

    Name: Rotman School of Management, Room L1060 Address:

    Moderator: Susan McCahan, Vice-Provost, Innovation in Undergraduate Education Panelists: Gwendolyn Eadie, Assistant Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics/Statistical Sciences, FAS Certina Ho, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy/ Psychiatry, TFoM Daniel Newman, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Director of Graduate Writing Support/Department of English, FAS Zahra Shakeri, Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, DLSPH Naomi Steenhof, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy  What does exceptional teaching look like at the start of an academic career? Join recipients of the Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award (ECTA) (https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/awards-funding/university-of-toronto-early-career-teaching-award/)for a dynamic conversation on creativity, commitment and impact [...]

  • 1.4 Open Mic Sessions

    Name: Rotman School of Management Room 147 Address:

    1.4.1 The Power of Presence: Centering In‑Person Communication in a Digital‑Heavy Era Alexandra Motut, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Rotman School of Management   Filtering the Noise: Tools, Trends, and Tensions         I describe how my commitment to in-person, real-time assessment in a second-year business communications course cuts through the noise of a digital-heavy teaching landscape and helps students understand what matters most in communicating effectively with others. In an era of overwhelming AI-powered tools and asynchronous convenience, I structure my course around one core principle: students learn communication best when they must communicate in real time, in person, with real [...]

  • 1.5 Open Mic Sessions

    Name: Rotman School of Management Room 157 Address:

    1.5.1 An Interactive Module to Prepare Nursing Students for Their First Clinical Placement: The transformation of an idea Mary Ann Fegan, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing Sustaining Resonance: Lessons, Insights, and Impact Nursing students begin clinical practice within a month of entering the program. With a goal to improve students’ preparation for their first clinical placement and help demystify the clinical learning environment, we reimagined and redesigned our orientation approach. Over the past four years, what was once a large class discussion with PowerPoint slides transformed into an interactive, media-rich online clinical orientation module, with an accompanying [...]

  • 1.3 Tuning In Sessions

    Name: Rotman School of Management Room 151 Address:

    1.3.1 Learning from the Development and Evaluation of Better Together: A Longitudinal Hybrid Interprofessional Pressure Injury Prevention and Management Curriculum for Health and Social Care Students Sharon Gabison, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Physical Therapy, TFoM Sustaining Resonance: Lessons, Insights, and Impact This session will present the reflections related to the development and evaluation of a longitudinal hybrid interprofessional pressure injury curriculum for health and social care students at the University of Toronto. More specifically, the objectives of this session are: ·      To share reflections on the development of a longitudinal hybrid interprofessional pressure injury curriculum for health and social [...]

  • 1.1 Is this good? Supporting learner evaluations of written texts across disciplines and technologies

    Name: Rotman School of Management Room L1020 Address:

    Erin Vearncombe, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP), UTM  Chris Eaton, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream & Associate Director, Research, ISUP, UTM Sarah Flood, 3rd-year undergraduate in Sociology; Research Assistant, ISUP, UTM Talla Enaya, undergraduate alumna, UTM; Program Assistant, Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, UTM Filtering the Noise: Tools, Trends, and Tensions              Evaluative judgment refers to the capability to make informed, defensible decisions about the quality of work (Tai et al., 2018). This capability has always been central to academic success and professional practice, yet it has remained [...]

  • 2.3 GenAI and teaching integrity

    Name: Rotman School of Management, Room L1060 Address:

    Meranda Salem, Sessional Instructor, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, FASE                  Filtering the Noise: Tools, Trends, and Tensions         The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools in higher education presents both opportunities and challenges for maintaining teaching and assessment integrity. Rather than viewing GenAI solely as a threat to academic honesty, this proposal frames it as a pedagogical tool that must be intentionally integrated through evidence-informed course design. Teaching integrity in the GenAI era is supported not by surveillance or detection technologies, but by transparent expectations, authentic assessments, and student [...]

  • 2.1 Conversations in Beta: An Interactive Workshop on AI‑Generated Simulations

    Name: Rotman School of Management Room L1020 Address:

    Michael Cournoyea, PhD, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education Tolulola Taiwo-Hanna, MSW, RSW, PhD Candidate, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work Joelleann Forbes, MSW, RSW, Sessional Instructor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work Filtering the Noise: Tools, Trends, and Tensions                     Educators across disciplines are increasingly exploring how Large Language Models (LLMs) might support richer forms of experiential learning. One emerging use case is the development of interactive simulations—dynamic, responsive scenarios that allow students to practice discernment, apply concepts, and experiment with different approaches in a low‑stakes environment. In this interactive [...]