Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) is dedicated to helping instructors develop their teaching skills and support their professional development. TLS collaborates with instructors, departments, Faculties, and fellow teaching support units to create adaptable and innovative learning environments in which outstanding teaching is recognized and rewarded. TLS provides a range of resources, programs, and services including:
- Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base: A collection of articles about course planning and implementation, including information about McGill-approved learning technologies.
- Teaching for Learning blog: Posts related to teaching and learning—experiences, strategies, resources, opinions—in higher education.
- Course design support: Targeted support to (re)design one of your courses with a learning centered approach. Available on-demand, online, or in-person.
- Events: Workshops, webinars, and symposia on topics such as using teaching technologies, engaging students, and equitable teaching.
- Teaching portfolio support: 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 or units/programs. Contact us for support on course planning, teaching strategies, teaching technologies, etc.
To keep up to date with TLS’ offerings for instructors, be sure you are subscribed to the Focus on Teaching | Penser pédagogie bulletin and follow TLS on X/Twitter.
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 11 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 website.
