Evaluating Effective Teaching: Problems and Possibilities

8:30am–9:00am

Continental Breakfast

9:00am–9:10am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Claude Evans, Chair, Teaching Stream Committee, UTFA Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Language Studies, UTM

9:10am–10:15am

Opportunity Out of Scrutiny: A Model for Improving (The Evaluation of) Teaching

• Richard Freishtat, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of California, Berkeley

10:20am–11:00am

Teaching Evaluations: Legal Implications and Considerations

• Emma Phillips, Goldblatt & Partners 

11:00am–11:20am

Coffee Break

11:20am–11:50am

Discipline-based Scholarship and Academic Freedom in the Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto

• Cynthia Messenger, VP Grievances, UTFA; Associate Professor, Teaching Stream; Director, Writing and Rhetoric Program, Innis College 

11:50am–12:10pm

Teaching Evaluations at the University of Toronto

• Cynthia Messenger

12:10pm–12:30pm

Discussion & Closing Remarks

• Claude Evans

12:30pm