Welcome
Thank you for participating in Teaching and Learning Month 2025!
With your support, we have connected with over 400 members of our teaching community for 36 sessions from 18 campus partners during the month of May.
What is Teaching and Learning Month?
- As winter term comes to an end in April, many campus units, including the MacPherson Institute, offer professional development opportunities related to teaching and learning.
- The MacPherson Institute and many campus partners coordinate efforts to share a comprehensive schedule of these opportunities in May.
What kind of sessions are offered during Teaching and Learning Month?
- Any sessions that are related to teaching and learning at McMaster.
- Event audiences can include (but are not limited to): educators, instructors, faculty members, staff, administrators, graduate students, teaching assistants, sessional instructors, educational developers, librarians, and more.
- Topics can include (but are not limited to): teaching pedagogy, teaching with technology, remote and hybrid teaching, course design, instructional skills, Indigenous teaching and learning practices, anti-racist pedagogies, inclusivity, diversity, equity, accessibility and universal design, community-engaged teaching, and sustainability, artificial intelligence and more.
- If you have an event in mind but aren’t sure if it would be a good fit—please connect with us!
Getting Involved with Teaching and Learning Month
If you are interested in partnering with us to promote Teaching and Learning Month in the future, send us an email at mi@mcmaster.ca. The MacPherson Institute will follow up with more instructions about how you can share the details about your upcoming programming and event(s).
If you are planning to offer training sessions in May but aren’t ready with all the details – that’s fine! Let us know that you plan to participate, and we’ll determine how to connect with you when you are ready.
Why should I partner with the MacPherson Institute?
- Partnering with the MacPherson Institute means we will help promote your event through our website, e-newsletter, social media and cross-promote throughout May during our own MacPherson Institute teaching and learning training sessions.
- We will also ask you to promote Teaching and Learning Month through your communications channels, to help generate further awareness about the variety of programming available across the university.
- All partner sessions will be listed on the MacPherson Institute – Teaching and Learning Month webpage for easy reference throughout May.
Who else is participating?
In previous years we have worked with these campus partners:
- CUPE 3906
- Equity and Inclusion Office
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- McMaster Continuing Education
- McMaster Libraries
- McMaster Students Union
- Office of Community Engagement
- Office of the Provost
- Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching & Learning
- Student Success Centre
- University Technology Services