Program Overview
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.
Program Description
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 an annual conference, the Online Supplements for Education, and custom consultations and programming.
TforT: Annual Conference
Teaching for Transformation: Annual Conference+ (TforT:AC+) is a three day immersion in the education paradigms and practices needed for today’s health care work. TforT: AC+ involves keynote facilitated sessions, workshops, submitted short talks, roundtables, and space for open dialogue. TforT:AC+ will take place online, enabling an international reach.
Conference+
TforT:AC+ 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.
Please click here to learn more.
Program Structure
TforT: Online Supplements
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.
TforT: Custom Consultations
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.
Contact
Lindsay Baker
Program Co-Lead
lindsay.baker@unityhealth.to
Stella Ng
Program Co-Lead
stella.ng@utoronto.ca
Level: All
Who should register: Health professions teachers/educators who are interested in preparing health professions learners for the humanistic, relational, and systemic/structural aspects of health care/sciences with a commitment to collaboration, compassion, and equity.
Location: Online
Upcoming Conference Dates:
March 25-27, 2024
Conference Fees:
Early Bird Rate: $650.00 (until Jan 31, 2024)
Standard Rate: $750.00
Become a Community Supporter:
Are you interested in building capacity with your team for transformative education in health and social care? Please see the community supporter options in the Prospectus.
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: AC+ information here.
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Upcoming Events
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24AprThis workshop provides foundational knowledge on how communication and language can create barriers to accessibility. We will identify problematic terms, understand how ableism informs the use of these term and apply this knowledge to our everyday practices to create an inclusive community. -
1MayAre you someone who is in a leadership role or responsible influencing people/change and looking to enhance the performance or support the development of another in the areas of teaching, leadership, scholarship and advocacy? In this applied workshop, we will explore how you can enhance your skills as a coach through Brief Solution Focused Coaching to support a colleague develop themselves at work or in the clinical academic environment. -
13MayThis workshop engages participants in reflective activities and discussions about desirable and undesirable professional behaviours and the bi-directional relationships that exist between these behaviours, healthcare professional wellness, and the creation of psychologically and culturally safe environments.
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A. There is a cost to participate in some of our programs. The cost of each of our programs varies and in some cases, the cost varies depending on your status with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto and/or in which hospital you work as well as whether or not you have an annual CFD Membership.
Q.I do not have a faculty appointment in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Can I still attend your workshops, programs and/or events? Is there a fee?
A. Anyone whose education activities include teaching, leading, scholarship and advocacy are welcome to attend our workshops, programs and/or events. Specific pre-requisite criteria may apply. Please refer to each workshop, program or event page for details. All fees and discounts (where applicable) can be found in the workshop, program and event pages.
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A. Please contact us for further information. The availability of this service is dependent on the resources and capacity of the CFD at the time the request is made.
Q: Is having a CFD Membership the same as having a CFD account?
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