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Pedagogical Innovation

Providing Chemical Analyses for Community Partners
With the support of the LEAF Seed Grant, we built a partnership with the Toronto Zoo’s Nutrition Science team by co-creating community-engaged learning and research opportunities within and beyond a […]
EPIC Forestry – Experiential Learning in Forest Conservation
EPIC Forestry was a pilot program to develop and deliver a new undergraduate field course (FOR301: Field Methods in Forest Conservation) that blends knowledge of conservation science with hands-on experiential […]
Canada Constructed: Architecture, Landscape, History
The purpose of the initiative was to transform teaching and learning about the Canadian built environment through a cluster of new courses at various curricular levels in the Department of […]
Reimagining computer science education through digital storytelling with tangible objects
Instructors in computer science (CS) often adopt mathematical abstractions and entities when explaining concepts. As the academic preparation of learners has become more diverse, the low retention rate of students […]
Design Research Internship Project (DRIP)
The Design Research Internship Project (DRIP) is a curricular initiative that is designed to provide undergraduate students with a critical educational experience outside the classroom/studio while continuing to call on […]
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Alignment and Pedagogical Collaboration Through Communities of Practice and Learning
Our project aimed to bring the three disciplines of our department – Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics closer together in terms of curriculum and pedagogy. By comparing detailed curriculum maps […]
Digital Tools for Enhanced Music Pedagogy: Creating, Developing, and Implementing Online Learning Modules for Music & Culture
This project supported the creation, development, and implementation of digital learning modules for the A-level course “Foundations in Musicianship,” which is a prerequisite to virtually all courses in the UTSC […]
Revamping a first-year writing course curriculum (English A02) – The Peer Support Model as a path to student academic success, resilience, and well-being
This two-year LEAF project entails a robust, embedded mental health, accessibility, community building, and academic peer support system in each of the 13/15 sections of English A02—a multi-sectional, first-year, English […]
Scaffolding Computation and Data Science Throughout the Chemistry Curriculum
Over a three-year period, we developed and integrated computing and data science (CDS) materials into five chemistry courses: a large-enrollment first-year life science course (CHM135H1); a first-year course for physical […]
Quantitative Skills using R in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quantitative skills (statistics, mathematics, and computing) are essential parts of an academic and professional portfolio across ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). Quantitative Reasoning is also identified as one of five […]