Teaching for
Transformation

Teaching for Transformation (TforT) is jointly offered by Centre for Faculty Development and Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education.  It was inspired by a growing need in health professions education and practice to prepare clinicians for a multitude of complex social roles. For example, collaboration, advocacy, and systems navigation must be performed within a complex health care system that aims to support compassionate, equitable, and person-centered care orientations, while also managing limited resources, quality, safety, and accountability. Aligned with these needs, TforT brings together educators interested in the theory and practice of transformative education and critical pedagogies.  TforT aims to promote and provide the development of critically reflective/reflexive individuals in relation to their educational roles in health care.

TforT brings together educators, clinicians, administrators, leaders, and scholars interested in the theory and practice of humanistic and transformative education and critical pedagogies and practices. The humanist paradigm of education foregrounds self-actualization and the transformative paradigm of education is grounded in a vision of education as an emancipatory practice in pursuit of equity. TforT participants strive to prepare health professions learners for the humanistic, social-relational aspects of health care practice.

TforT explores varying pedagogies, principles, and practices depending on the year.   For example, dialogic education, arts-based pedagogy, reflective writing, theatre pedagogy, pedagogies of discomfort, aesthetic education, ways of knowing, active learning, experiential learning, portfolio courses.

These educational approaches may support the following health education goals: compassionate care, equity, diversity, and inclusion, interprofessional education and collaboration, critically reflective practice, advocacy and change agency, systems-based practice, professionalism, ethics of research and clinical practice, person-centered care, patient engagement in education, accessibility and universal design for learning.

TforT is a suite of educational offerings, including a conference (offered every 2 years,) the Online Supplements for Education, custom consultations and programming, and a certificate in co-facilitation.

Teaching for Transformation: Conference+  is a three day immersion in the education paradigms and practices needed for today’s health care work. The conference involves keynote facilitated sessions, workshops, submitted short talks, roundtables, and space for open dialogue.  The conference will take place every two years.

Conference+
Teaching for Transformation: Conference+ is more than a conference.  Registration is limited to foster a dialogic learning environment.  Additionally, registrants will gain access to a private website of resources and activities for their ongoing use and an online community of support. 

By becoming a community supporter, your organization can become a part of the TforT community, accessing networks, resources, and shaping the future of the TforT conference, community, and overarching program.

Please direct questions about becoming a Community Support or for more TforT: C+ information here.

The Online Supplements (OS) for Education support transformative, reflexive approaches to education and teaching within the health professions / health sciences. Ideally, these OS’s should be used in conjunction with in-person sessions as educators can then contextualize content, promote dialogue, and debrief activities.

This interactive and immersive program is designed for individuals who are interested in co-facilitating interprofessional educational initiatives informed by humanistic and transformative education practices. Participants will engage in hands-on practice, receive feedback, and build essential skills for leading and facilitating interprofessional education.
When we say co-facilitation, we mean collaborative facilitation by a patient/family member in partnership with a faculty member, learner, or practitioner.

Key Details:
• Format: Virtual and in-person sessions
• Who Should Attend: Teachers, educators, faculty, facilitators, patient/family/caregiver partners, and collaborative leaders interested in deepening their skills in transformational teaching practices
• Certificate: Participants who complete the program will receive a formal certificate of completion from CACHE & CFD.

Teaching for Transformation: Custom Consultations (CC), a partnered working model in which we co-construct programming and resources to support your own team’s learning and working in relation to transformative approaches to education.

Please email Stella Ng or Lindsay Baker if interested.

Lindsay Baker
Program Co-Lead
lindsay.baker@unityhealth.to

Stella Ng
Program Co-Lead
stella.ng@utoronto.ca