CENTRE FOR TEACHING
EXCELLENCE & INNOVATION
If you are a new faculty member or instructor at Yorkville U + TFS and are looking for more information and/or to register for CTEI Ready-to-Teach, please reach out to us at [email protected]

CTEI Ready-to-Teach

Welcome to Yorkville University and Toronto Film School!

The CTEI Ready-to-Teach Program provides introductory educational development for faculty and instructors as they begin their teaching at Yorkville U + TFS. The Program leads into flexible opportunities at the Centre for Teaching Excellence and Innovation (CTEI, or “The Centre”) throughout the year so faculty and instructors can identify the skills and knowledges they wish to develop.

At the CTEI, we see educational development work as relational and value building meaningful connections across Yorkville U + TFS – and we believe that starts at Day One with new faculty. CTEI Ready-to-Teach provides ample time for new faculty to explore various teaching and learning topics at their own pace via asynchronous modules that model best practices for online learning, while offering opportunities for relationship building with peers and the Centre.

We are so excited to meet you and start working together soon!

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CTEI Ready-to-Teach is an 8-hour program, with 4 hours of synchronous and 4 hours of asynchronous learning and engagement spread across your first 5 weeks of teaching. Weeks 1, 3, and 5 are synchronous sessions with The Centre that you will register for to best fit your schedule; Weeks 2 and 4 are asynchronous modules in Brightspace that The Centre will enroll you in.

For the April 2025 cohort of CTEI Ready-to-Teach, please sign up for one synchronous session from each of the scheduled synchronous weeks:

Matthew Dunleavy wearing a pink and purple polka-dot shirt under a grey blazer with red-framed glasses and a long reddish-brown beard smiling into the camera
Matthew Dunleavy

Senior Educational Developer, Faculty Excellence and Development

[email protected] 

Matthew Dunleavy (he/him) is an educational developer and scholarly teacher with over 9+ years’ experience. He immediately joins our CTEI from York University where he was an Educational Developer with the Teaching Commons; before entering that role, he served as the Program Director of the Online Learning and Technology Consultants (OLTC) Program at the Maple League of Universities (Acadia University; Bishop’s University; Mount Allison University; and St. Francis Xavier University). In 2022, he was awarded the D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) for this work.