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Announcing the Learning & Teaching Grant Recipients for ‘25-’26

The Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching is honoured to announce the recipients of the Learning & Teaching Grant (LTG) for 2025-2026. Funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, the LTG reflects the University’s continuing commitment to teaching excellence and pedagogical leadership, along with our community’s ongoing dedication to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the classroom.

Please join us in congratulating the recipients and learn more about their work below. 

Embedding Indigenous Content into Psychology Courses:

Designing and Distributing Micro-Modules

There is a thirst in the discipline of psychology for Indigenous-specific content. Non-Indigenous instructors who strive to be allies typically want to include Indigenous content in their courses but are often concerned with doing something wrong or causing harm. To our knowledge, a repository of micro-modules and resources specific to Indigenous content in psychology does not yet exist. By curating an open-access database of Indigenous-specific resources and a series of micro-modules that can be embedded within psychology courses, we will begin to address this gap and support instructors to do this work in a good way.

Expanding Capacities for Peacebuilding in Social Work Classrooms

This project builds on the PI’s experience developing and running a Black feminist and abolitionist-informed social work course in Winter 2025. It transforms conflict from something to be managed into a site of ethical engagement, repair, and accountability. Through participatory assessments, narrative identity reflections, and student-led knowledge production, it creates opportunities to move beyond traditional Euro-American evaluation models. It prioritises experiential learning and the co-creation of an ethical framework, aiming to strengthen students’ confidence in navigating conflict with care and justice. Findings will inform broader teaching and learning strategies, ensuring scalability across human services programs at TMU and beyond.

Mastering Strategic Management in the Canadian Context

An Environmental Scan and Exploration of Best Practices to Develop a New Skills Testing Model for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Undergraduate nursing students need to perform a high-stakes clinical skills test that determines their ability to engage in clinical practice. With intake numbers of students growing, instructors are making these skills tests shorter in duration to meet scheduled class times, severely decreasing the assessment's accuracy and increasing student stress. 

This project will include: 

1. an environmental scan of post-secondary institutions across Canada to examine how students are evaluated on such skills; 

2. a scoping review on best practices; and 

3. focus groups with nursing students and instructors at TMU to gather insights on the current and new skills testing model.

How "We Met U When…" podcast students are teaching journalism industry to do better

Integrating Live Actor Simulation in graduate student professional development experiences

This project will develop a suite of four Live Actor simulations as professional development tools for graduate students, recognizing that experiential learning significantly enhances professional growth. These simulations will focus on conflict resolution, team leadership, change management, and overcoming communication barriers, with particular emphasis on navigating divergent viewpoints, and will incorporate principles of equity, diversity and inclusion.

This collaborative project leverages the expertise of the Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, the Graduate Leadership Institute, the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre, TMU's Live Actor Simulation program, and the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Graduate students will be key collaborators and advisors throughout the process of developing and piloting simulations.

Speak Your Essay: Dictation and Speech Technologies in Academia

2026-2027 Grant Process

The call for proposals opens in November 2025 for the 2026-2027 grants. Please stay subscribed to teachnet for updates later in 2025.

Contact

For help with your research idea and technical assistance submitting an application, email askcelt@torontomu.ca.

For budget and eligible expense questions, email Syeda Shah, Administrative Coordinator syeda.z.shah@torontomu.ca.

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