Teaching Support

Teaching and Academic Programs (TAP) promotes effective teaching through guidance and support, professional development, collaboration opportunities, and recognition. TLS provides a range of offerings for McGill instructors, including:

• Programming: Scheduled and on-request workshops, learning communities, and annual events on topics such as using teaching technologies, engaging students, and equitable teaching.
• Course design: Self-paced, online, or in-person offerings designed to support you with (re)designing one of your courses with a learning-centered approach.
• Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base: A collection of evidence-informed resources to support you throughout your teaching journey at McGill, including a course outline template and guide, a teaching checklist, and information about using McGill-approved learning technologies.
• Teaching portfolio: Resources, examples, and one-on-one assistance with developing your teaching portfolio, which is required for promotion and tenure.
• Consultations: Personalized teaching support for individual instructors and units/programs with questions related to course planning, teaching strategies, learning technologies, etc.

To keep up to date with TAP’s offerings for instructors, be sure you are subscribed to the Focus on Teaching | Penser pédagogie newsletter.

Consult Supervision: Graduate and Postdoctoral Support, McGill’s website of over 40 pages of research and evidence-based guidance for supervisors and supervisees. Its focus is on practical advice that can help readers to avoid common problems in supervision and to help students complete their degrees without delays.

Student Services

Student Services is located in the Brown Building at the Downtown campus, and in the Centennial Centre at Macdonald Campus. It is comprised of 12 units:

• Campus Life & Engagement
• Career Planning Service
• Counselling Services
• First Peoples’ House
• International Student Services
• Office for Students with Disabilities
• Psychiatric Services
• Office of Religious and Spiritual Life
• Scholarship and Student Aid
• Student Health Service
• Tutorial Service
• Healthy McGill

For more information visit www.mcgill.ca/studentservices.

 

Student Accessibility & Achievement

Student Accessibility & Achievement provides support services and reasonable accommodations to undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students with documented disabilities of either a permanent, temporary or episodic nature. Active participation by faculty in collaboration with Student Accessibility & Achievement is key for creating an accessible experience. We invite faculty to contact Student Accessibility & Achievement if they have any questions regarding a particular student or incorporating accessibility into the classroom learning environment.

For more information, visit the Student Accessibility & Achievement.

Also, visit the Student learning resources.
Resources to support your learning and help you succeed academically, including information on study techniques, building academic connections, and using learning technologies.