7:30am
Registration
8:00am – 9:00am
Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 9:30am
TAGSA Welcome and Community Building
9:30am – 10:50am
Supporting innovative practice in teaching and learning among GTAs: Fuller’s Stages of Concern model
Natasha Patrito Hannon, Karyn Olsen, and Aisha Haque, Western University
(See session description below)
11:00am - 11:50am
Second Teachers in the Classroom
Shelia Crooks, Marc Heller, and Aaron Richter, Saint Mary’s University
(See session description below)
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
12:30pm – 1:20pm
AGM (grab your lunch and bring)
1:30pm – 1:55pm
Not a “Real” Teacher: Undergraduate TAs’ Conceptions of Teaching
Betsy Keating, University of Windsor
(See session description below)
2:00pm - 2:25pm
Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientations: Are we laying a transformative foundation?
Cynthia Korpan, University of Victoria, and Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Dalhousie University
(See session description below)
2:30pm - 3:20pm
Evaluating for transformation, transforming in our evaluation: How do we envision support for Graduate students and TAs?
Carolyn Hoessler, University of Saskatchewan., and Lorraine Godden, Queen’s University
(See session description below)
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Teaching Assistant (TA) Competencies: Provoking change
Cynthia Korpan, University of Victoria, and Roselynn Verwoord, University of British Columbia
(See session description below)
5:30pm – 8:00pm
Welcome Reception at the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts
(390 King Street West)