Training for Teaching Assistants

Being a Teaching Assistant (TA) requires personal skills, attributes and training to contribute to an effective partnership with professors and better understand their role when interacting with students...

The Teaching with AI Micro-Credential provides postsecondary educators with essential concepts and best practices to explore, evaluate, and experiment with AI in today's rapidly evolving landscape. This program covers key topics such as the use of AI in postsecondary education, prompt engineering, guidelines and policies, as well as ethics and academic integrity...

Whether you are a faculty member, instructor, staff, or even graduate student, this course can help you build foundational knowledge to engage with open educational resources (OER) and help you expand your pedagogy through engaging with open publishing tools and open education concepts. This course provides insights into open licensing, sourcing quality OER, and using tools like Pressbooks and H5P to create engaging, accessible content...

Will you be helping a professor build content for teaching in Virtual Campus for the first time? You know little or nothing about Virtual Campus? Join the TLSS team for a friendly webinar where we will be covering Virtual Campus basics...

Facilitating Engaging, Positive & Successful Sessions
Presenting to students can be one of your roles as a teaching assistant.  How to make it an engaging, positive and successful one? In this workshop, you will first reflect on your comfort level in the classroom...

Discussion groups can play an important role in a course. If in your role as a teaching assistant you are responsible for facilitating interaction in discussion groups (in class or online), this webinar is for you! 

Will you be helping a professor build assessment activities?
This short webinar will present the tools available in Virtual Campus and the basic functions for creating exams and assignments...

Diversity, communication, and disruptive behaviours
For many, the classroom is increasingly a minefield of obstacles and risks: should I broach such and such a subject? How do I go about it? What happens if the audience is offended, reacts negatively, disrespects me, questions my integrity, damages my reputation, etc.? How can I prevent this from happening?

As a teaching assistant, will you be responsible for grading assignments, or marking exams and quizzes submitted through Virtual Campus? If so, this webinar is for you...