Our free consultation service is designed to assist instructors, administrators, and staff in analyzing and developing their teaching skills.

Are you teaching or preparing to teach at McGill?

Get targeted assistance from a TAP staff member.

Request a consultation

Consultation options

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Individual consultation

Available to all McGill instructors seeking teaching assistance. An individual consultation may consist of an email exchange and/or a meeting. Depending on needs (and staff availability), assistance from the consultant can continue throughout the term.

Unit/program consultation 

Available to all or a sub-group of individuals within a unit who are analyzing, developing, or improving a teaching program. Units can also request workshops based on our regular workshop topics.  

Consultation topics

  • Course design
  • Teaching strategies and skills
  • Planning assessment and feedback strategies
  • Using learning technologies
  • Interpreting student feedback
  • Developing a teaching portfolio (for reappointment, tenure, or promotion at McGill)
  • Preparing a teaching award application 
  • Any other questions relevant to teaching at McGill

Confidentiality

TAP is committed to fostering a supportive environment, enabling individuals to freely reflect on and explore their teaching practices in meetings with us without concern for evaluation or judgment. We conduct pedagogical observations and provide recommendations for formative purposes (such as for fostering teaching improvement and success) and not evaluative purposes (such as for promotion, tenure, or review processes).

All information pertaining to and shared through the consultation process is considered confidential. 

This means:

  • We do not share information about consultations except with TAP staff for internal training purposes or unless we have your permission to share with others.
  • We may track and report our consultations and other activities in aggregate, but all identifying information is removed.
  • We do not initiate consultations with instructors at the request of administrators.

Need teaching information in the meantime?

Visit the Teaching and Learning Knowledge Base (TL KB)

Browse documentation on teaching strategies, assessment, learning technologies, and more.

Browse the TL KB