The Centre for Teacher Education & Development
Centre & CTL Events
**UPCOMING CTED INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM -- October 2011. The theme of the 2011 symposium is Global Conversations for Teacher Learning that Matters: International Perspectives. More details to follow...
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar: Teacher Research that Matters: Conducting Research in Schools
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar: Exploring Topics and Ideas for the CTED Student Community
• Dr. Mary Kooy's appearance on TVO's "Your Voice" discussing "What makes a great teacher great?" To listen to the podcast of this discussion, please visit http://feeds.tvo.org/tvoyourvoice
• Navigating Your PATH: Exploring and Supporting Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Development -- From June 21 - 22, 2010, the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation at U of T and OISE are jointly hosting an international conference on TA and graduate student development. For more informaiton and call for proposals, visit the website at www.teaching.utoronto.ca/conference2010
• CTED Tea and Talk
• CREFO Symposium - Friday, October 22: CREFO will be hosting a symposium on the questions of access to postsecondary education for Francophones in Ontario, a topic that has been extensively researched by Normand Labrie and his colleague from the University of Ottawa, Dr. Sylvie Lamoureux (formerly from OISE). This one-day symposium will allow policymakers and other researchers from the Francophone communities, colleges, universities, associations, ministries, etc., to meet and discuss the results of their own researches. For more information, please visit CREFO's website.
• Book talk with renowned author and storyteller, Jan Andrews - Monday, October 25, 6:30 - 8:30 PM (Rm. 11-164): Jan Andrews will share the oral tale of The Stone Book. The event is co-hosted by the Toronto Children's Literature Roundtable and the Toronto Reading Council. (View Poster)
• CTED's Lunch Byte Seminar: CTED's Lunch Byte and SMT 's Brown Bag Seminar -- Joint Session
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar: Where do I go from here? The research process in Teacher Education and Development
• Writing a Thesis or Grant Proposal, Dr. Jane Freeman - January 19, 4:30 - 6:00 PM (Koffler House, 569 Spadina Avenue, Room 108): Graduate students write many proposals - federal grant proposals, travel grant proposals, thesis proposals - and every proposal has a potentially significant impact on a student's ability to carry out specific research. The introductory workshop in this series provides an overview of proposal writing designed to get students thinking about the demands of, and the predictable variations in, this important genre of writing. We will examine the similarities and differences between thesis and grant proposals, consider the main questions that most proposals must answer, and see examples of answers to those questions in successful proposals. We will also consider common pitfalls in proposal writing, and strategies for getting started on writing a proposal. (http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/students/english.htm)
• Strategies for Clarifying and Organizing Your Ideas Before You Write, Dr. Jane Freeman -January 26, 4:30 - 6:00 PM (Koffler House, 569 Spadina Avenue, Room 108): This workshop is designed to help you clarify in your own mind the content and structure of your next proposal BEFORE you begin to write. Participants will be introduced to a range of strategies for organizing their ideas, and will be encouraged to consider which strategy works best given their own learning style and timeline. Drawing on techniques from classical rhetoric for developing and organizing ideas, the workshop will introduce strategies to help students investigate and organize their ideas at both the pre-writing and mid-writing stages. While most examples will be drawn from proposals, the material covered will also be relevant to research papers and theses. (http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/students/english.htm)
• Writing a Literature Review that Demonstrates the Need for Your Research, Dr. Jane Freeman - February 2, 4:30 - 6:00 PM (Koffler House, 569 Spadina Avenue, Room 108): Like research papers and theses, thesis and grant proposals require graduate students to situate their work within the context of other research in their field(s). A well constructed literature review will help you to clarify key points for your reader such as why your work needs to be done, how it is original, and why your proposed method is appropriate. In this workshop we will examine characteristics of both short and long literature reviews, common mistakes students make when reviewing research in their field, and strategies for increasing the effectiveness of literature reviews. The material covered will be relevant to the literature-review segments of proposals, research papers, and theses. (http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/students/english.htm)
• Clear Thinking, Clear Writing: Communicating Clearly to Your Target Audience(s), Dr. Jane Freeman - February 9, 4:30 - 6:00 PM (Koffler House, 569 Spadina Avenue, Room 108): Grant proposals require you to communicate a lot of information, in a limited space, to multiple audiences, without ambiguity. Such communication demands clear writing and an active awareness of the needs of both specialist and generalist readers. In this workshop we will examine some of the most common stylistic and grammatical mistakes found in proposals, and consider the ways in which strategic proofreading can help you to identify not only the errors in your writing but also the errors in your logic. (http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/students/english.htm)
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar: Linking Research Questions to Methodologies in Qualitative Research
• CTED Lunch Bytes Seminar: Linking Research Questions to Methodologies in Qualitative Research, Part II (View PDF)
• William Waters Workshops & Symposium on Urban Education -- Friday, April 1, 2011. Featured guests: Professor David Hulchanski and Professor Jim Cummins. These events are FREE, but you must REGISTER beforehand. To RSVP for Workshop A OR Workshop B (which includes your confirmation for lunch and the performance), please send an e-mail message to Nina Lewis at cusinquiries.utoronto.ca<mailto:cusinquiries.utoronto.ca> before Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 - there is a maximum capacity of 35 spaces for each session. To obtain a Symposium Ticket, please contact the U of Ttix Box Office, at 416-978-8849, or www.uofttix.ca. Also see the Centre for Urban Schooling for more details http://cus.oise.utoronto.ca/