CTL TA Orientation: How to Be a Successful TA (GPTK722 | GPTK722



Description

Are you a teaching assistant looking to develop or enhance your lesson planning skills and deliver engaging, structured tutorials or labs? Join us for this workshop designed to equip you with essential tools and strategies for creating effective lesson plans. 

In this workshop, we will: 

  • Outline the key components of planning a lesson. 

  • Discuss various engagement and teaching techniques to create an inclusive and collaborative learning environment. 

  • Explore different ways of teaching and assessing learning. 

Participants will create a preliminary lesson plan during the session and have an opportunity to get feedback from the facilitators and fellow workshop attendees. Please come prepared with a topic that you’d like to develop.  


Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to: 

  • Identify student learning outcome(s) for their lab or tutorial.
  • Draft a lesson plan appropriate to the learning outcomes.
  • Plan pacing and types of instructional strategies, transition times, and identify resources needed.

Leaders Information

This workshop will be facilitated by the Centre for Teaching and Learning, GradProSkills and seasoned TAs from various departments at Concordia.



How it works

Event details

Workshop location

Online

Start date

Friday, September 23, 2022

End date

Friday, September 23, 2022

Workshop days

Friday

Time

From 09:00 to 11:45

Capacity

74 / 80

Registration deadline

Wednesday, September 21, 2022