Faculty Teaching Chairs

The Faculty Teaching Chair program was established to provide leadership in cultivating teaching excellence at Ryerson. Each Faculty selected one Faculty Teaching Chair through a process that considered the applicants’ interest and skill in teaching and learning. The Faculty Teaching Chairs participated in a Leadership Institute sponsored by the Learning and Teaching Office (LTO), serve on an advisory committee for the LTO, and chair a Faculty Teaching Committee composed of representatives from each of the Schools and Departments in their Faculty.

This exciting new program will foster Faculty-specific peer collaboration and develop resources to enhance the student and faculty teaching and learning experience.

Responsibilities

• Chairs a Faculty Teaching Committee comprised of school/department representatives
• Provides Leadership in cultivating teaching skills for faculty members and TA/GAs
• Promotes excellence in teaching
• Develops an action plan and annual outcome report for the Dean and Director, LTO
• Participates in the Leadership Institute led by LTO
• Forms part of the advisory committee to the LTO
• May be a member of the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee
• Provides leadership and development on Teaching Dossiers to faculty and DAC
• Collaborates with the designated Faculty Professional Librarian

Characteristics

• Tenured, mid career (RFA)
• History of interest and skill in teaching and learning
• Knowledge of excellence in teaching within the department (possible award winner and may have successfully led teaching related initiatives)

Activities

• Helps provide core programs with the LTO (NFO, UTDP, ISW)
• Cultivates an evidence informed approach and promotes the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
• Evaluates grant proposals related to teaching & learning initiatives
• Advises faculty members on classroom teaching issues, classroom management, best teaching /learning practices etc.

Meet the Teaching Chairs

Tetyana Antimorova, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science - Physics

Dr. Tetyana Antimirova is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics at Ryerson University. Her current interests include Physics Education Research, Curriculum Development, Science Education and Outreach, and her present research is focused on the impact of educational technologies (clickers, real-time data acquisition, video-based motion analysis, tablet PC, computer simulations) on student learning. In her own classes, Dr. Antimirova strives to create activity-based, student-centered learning environments assisted by a variety of technology tools. She has organized faculty training workshops and seminars, and given invited presentations at many national and international conferences.

Dr. Antimirova is the Chair of the Division of Physics Education of the Canadian Association of Physicists, a member of the Committee on International Physics Education and Ontario Representative of the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Marsha Barber, Faculty of Communication & Design - Journalism

Marsha spent many years at CBC, where she was a senior producer at CBC's flagship newscast: the National. Before that she was a documentary producer at The National, specializing in investigative pieces for which she won several awards. Marsha also worked as a producer for The Journal.

Before joining CBC, Marsha worked for CTV and TVOntario and did freelance work for the Globe and Mail, Canadian Press, the Toronto Star, and other outlets. Marsha trains reporters and producers for CBC and other networks and also runs journalism training and media training workshops internationally. Marsha's Master's degree is in Adult Learning and her research interests include a focus on effective teaching.

Ken Grant, Ted Rogers School of Management - Information Technology Management

In addition to his work at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Professor Grant has been a visiting professor at the University of Surrey (UK), Johannes Kepler University (Austria), and the American University of Bulgaria (Bulgaria). Professionally, Grant has acted as the Vice President of Strategic Consulting at the DMR Consulting Group, (Toronto), and as the Vice President at A.T. Kearney/EDS Canada Ltd. (Toronto). He is on the editorial board of the Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, and is the Director of the Board of EDSIG (Educational Special Interest Group), Association of Information Technology Professionals. Grant is the coauthor of Innovation Nation: Canadian leadership from Java to Jurassic Park (2002) and has published extensively in refereed journals such as The Information Systems Education Journal.

Elaine Frankel, Faculty of Community Services - Early Childhood Education

Dr. Elaine Frankel is a professor in the School of Early Childhood Education and the School of Graduate Studies. Her primary teaching and research interests are in the fields of early intervention and inclusion for children with disabilities, educational systems change, and interpersonal communications. She has published and presented at numerous conferences on topics including early intervention, international perspectives of inclusion, resource teachers/consultants as agents of change, the Structured Simulation Training Method (SSTM) and family narratives. Elaine was appointed in August, 2010 to a three year term as the Teaching Chair for the Faculty of Community Services to support excellence in teaching at Ryerson.

Dr. Frankel is a co-researcher with the research team headed by Dr. Patricia Minnes (PI), Queen's University, in the three year project (2009-2012) Health Education & Learning Partnerships Promoting Social Inclusion of Children with Developmental Disabilties (HELPS, Inc) funded by Canada Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She is a co-author with Dr. Mehrunnisa Ali and Dr. Patricia Corson on the recently published book and DVD Listening to Families: Reframing Services (2009), funded by The Government of Canada – Social Development Partnerships Program.

Robert Teigrob (Acting), Faculty of Arts - History

Dr. Teigrob (PhD, University of New Mexico, 2005) is an Assistant Professor of History, having joined the Department in 2007. In his short tenure at Ryerson he has already established a reputation as one of the best professors in the university: widely praised not just for his strong teaching skills, but also for his inspiration, dedication to learning, and powerful engagement of students. Routinely described as "excellent", "awesome", and "outstanding" in student evaluations, Rob has also demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to curriculum development and innovative teaching strategies. Above all, through his dedication, humour, and passion for teaching, Rob has extended learning well-beyond the lecture hall: developing a connection with students that one referee described as "empowering us all."

Frankie Stewart, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science - Engineering

Frankie is a Professor in the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department who has been the recipient of several Ryerson Teaching Excellence Awards as well as a provincial LIFT (Leadership in Faculty Teaching) Award in 2007/2008. Frankie's areas of discipline specialization include manufacturing automation and design for manufacture. Her current research interests are in the pedagogy of effective engineering education and improving student academic success. Frankie holds an M. Eng from the University of Toronto and is a professional engineer as well as a member of SME and ASEE.

Don Kinder - Library

Don Kinder is the Library Teaching Chair at Ryerson and Coordinator of Library Instruction and Reference Services in the Library. He is also the liaison librarian for the Nursing, Midwifery and Health Services Management programs. He holds a Master's degree in library science from the University of Western Ontario. Don is involved in many learning and teaching initiatives at Ryerson and has worked closely with the Learning and Teaching Office on numerous projects. He has been a member of the Senate Learning and Teaching Committee for a number of years and currently chairs a sub-committee on information literacy. Don is particularly interested in collaborating with faculty in embedding information literacy into the curriculum. He also has a long-standing interest in student success and has been instrumental in the development and delivery of library research components into a number of student success courses at Ryerson. Don has been actively involved with the Ontario Library Association for over a decade and has served as president the Ontario College and University Library Association. He was the recipient of the Ontario Library Association's Academic Librarian of the Year Award in 2005.

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