An STLHE Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Advancement (TAGSA) Conference, May 13-14 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Poster set-up and refreshments begin at 8:00am May 13th in the Segal Centre, Harbour Centre, Room 1400-1420 (515 West Hastings Street)
Join us on May 13 and 14, 2013 at Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre (view map), in beautiful downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
Conference Goals
The overarching goal of our conference is to enhance the quality and quantity of graduate student training in teaching in Canada. To this end, we have developed three specific objectives to meet this goal. By the end of this conference, we will
- discuss current practices in graduate student training in teaching at Canadian institutions, and compare those practices with the existing research literature in this area;
- foster collaboration among Canadian practitioners in the field of graduate student training by developing a national open-source, online tool to share lesson plans, manuals/guidebooks, program evaluation materials, and annotations to relevant academic resources; and
- mobilize Canadian scholarship of graduate student teaching training by prompting delegates to write papers and submit for publication.
Logo Design
The Teaching Graduate Students to Teach logo was created with the intent to capture the concept of exploring the way we teach people to teach, and to represent it in a simple visual mark. The logo uses the structure of stacked books or stacked paper to reflect the core concept of the conference which is to build off existing research and contribute new scholarly publications in the area of teaching graduate students to teach. The logo also plays on the concept of multi-stable visual perception (i.e., one could interpret the image as rising away from the viewer’s heart or above the viewer’s head). This closed shape that builds upon itself reflects how participants of this conference are working to build upon past research and experiences to improve graduate student training in teaching while producing material that will help others who are also committed to this pursuit. We thank Breanna Rawn (http://www.breannarawndesign.com/) for her inspiring work conceptualizing and designing this logo.
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