Navigating Your PATH: Exploring and Developing Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Development

Dear colleagues,

Registration is now open for the re-scheduled, renewed and re-invigorated Navigating Your PATH: Exploring and Supporting Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Development conference, taking place this spring:

Friday, May 6 – Saturday, May 7, 2011
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Hart House
University of Toronto

View a preliminary program here: http://www.utoronto.ca/conference-path2011/program.html

Register for the conference here: http://www.utoronto.ca/conference-path2011/registration.html

DEADLINE TO REGISTER
For conference presenters: March 25th
For all other registrants: April 15th

A limited number of graduate student registration fees are being waived—please see registration web page for details.

Join us this spring for an exciting program of events that includes:
• a special Graduate Dean’s Roundtable (led by Prof. Elizabeth Smyth, Vice-Dean, Programs at the School of Graduate Studies)
• a banquet at Hart House
• two engaging keynote speakers:
o Dean Douglas Peers, past-president of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) and current graduate dean at York University in Toronto
o Dr. Laurie Richlin, Director of Faculty Development at Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars and Director of the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching – West

If you are a faculty member or administrator and you are interested in learning new ways of training your TAs or improving the support of skills development in your graduate students, you need to be at this conference.

If you are a graduate student, this conference will offer you an unparalleled opportunity to network with a variety of professionals engaged in graduate education and to learn new strategies for building up your research and teaching skills.

The conference organizers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) as well as the support of our institutional partners: the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), The Office of the Vice-President and Provost, the School of Graduate Studies and Hart House.

We look forward to hosting you in May!

Best wishes,
Megan Burnett
PATH Conference Chair
Assistant Director, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation/Teaching Assistants' Training Program
University of Toronto, 4th floor, Robarts Library
130 St. George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 3H1
416.946.0464
www.teaching.utoronto.ca

The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) provides leadership in teaching and learning at the University of Toronto and provides support for pedagogy and pedagogy-driven instructional technology for all teaching staff and teaching assistants across the university’s campuses and divisions.




Kathleen Olmstead
Communications Coordinator
Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI)

Robarts Library, 4th Floor
130 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S 3H1

tel: (416) 946-7249
email: k.olmstead@utoronto.ca

The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) provides leadership in teaching and learning at the University of Toronto and provides support for pedagogy and pedagogy-driven instructional technology for all teaching staff and teaching assistants across the university’s campuses and divisions.