Teaching
Teaching WITH TT
At TT, research is transdisciplinary at all levels. It involves unifying hybrid knowledge and methods that don't fit within a single disciplinary domain, or cross-pollinate between fields of knowledge, practice, disciplines and genres. This is reflected in the praxes of our researchers, doctoral students and faculty alike. It also applies to how we conduct our programming, including workshops, seminars and research training.
intensive sessions
We offer monthly weekend intensive sessions whenever we are in session and at residencies. We tag our sessions to indicate all foundation-related areas a course will include as well as keywords. These sessions are intended to enrich our students’ research and praxes by exposing them to new concepts. practices, methods, and fields of research beyond their areas of expertise. Often collaborations and research groups develop from these sessions.
Integrated RESEARCH TRAINING
We tackle research training in context rather than addressing concepts abstractly. In the first year, each term is focussed on areas incoming researchers will need to embrace to submit their Confirmation of Route from a graduate to a doctoral trajectory. These three term research training strands are intended to support candidates in consolidating and refining their initial research proposals and preparing them for undertaking doctoral research:
YEAR 1 > FOUNDATION + CONFIRMATION OF ROUTE
TERM 1: Sept - Oct - Nov > RESEARCH SKILLS + EPISTEMOLOGIES
TERM 2: Jan - Feb - Mar > METHODS + ETHICS
TERM 3: May - Jun - Jul > ARTICULATION + DISSEMINATION
OUTCOME: 3 essay/exams + Confirmation of Route + Ethics approval
In the foundation year, an introductory overview session on each of these areas is covered by Dr Michael Bowdidge for perspective and background and prepare students to find the relevance of these strands in their own research. The remaining foundation workshops, talks, and seminars we invite you to teach will reference with these areas by example rather than directly. Students learn to identify and articulate them in their own research and praxes through your research and the references to other research you share. Second and third year elective sessions are more open but are still tagged along with keywords.
In all workshops and seminars students will apply their own research to the assignments, exercises and projects you give them. In this way, progressively, over the first three terms, applying these concepts to their research in term essays and finally the Confirmation of Route.
Examples of intensive sessions which address these concepts in their workshops include:
NN with Michael Bowdige
NN with NN
VIRTUAL MONTHLY INTENSIVE SESSIONS
Our virtual monthly intensives take place every month that we are in session. See the program schedule for details here. Workshops lengths will vary. No block of teaching will be longer than three hours. Breaks are at the discretion of the session leader. Your class description & syllabus can be found here. Simply click on your session and course title. This will automatically bring you to your course specifics.
OPENING PUBLIC TALK
To start off or end your workshop session, we encourage session leaders to give a 30 min. public talk for our Open Window Series about their recent research and praxis. This is a great way to introduce yourselves to the class and for TT to share programming with our community. If you’d like to do this, please just let us know when you submit your proposal form below.
ZOOM SESSIONS
Please test out using Zoom and its various features, i.e. sharing your screen and audio, showing videos, running slideshows, etc. prior to starting your workshop so you can take advantage of their expanding classrooms and presentation features. If you are having any issues, please refer to the Zoom Getting Started Guide or reach out to us here. In order to record the public portion of your workshop we will ask you for a release form.
SPLIT TEACHING & GUESTS
TT welcomes collaboration, so it’s fine if you would like to share your role as a session leader with a colleague, please just indicate your intention to do this on your syllabus form. You will split your hours and fee accordingly and we also ask you to indicate this on your individual invoices.
If you would like to invite a guest to your workshop please include details in the course proposal form, including contact email and how and when you envision their participation in your session.