We are a group of educational developers and other staff members devoted to graduate student development who meet regularly throughout the year as a community of practice.
All members of the Council of Ontario Educational Developers (COED) are invited to participate in our meetings. If you would like to join our CoP, please feel free to contact us directly!
We originally formed this COED community of practice in order to extend the conversations started at the New Directions in Professionalizing Graduate Students event in July 2023.
If you would like to join our CoP, please feel free to contact us directly!
Lisa Aikman (lisa.aikman@utoronto.ca)
Sadia Rahmani (sadia.rahmani@torontomu.ca)
Our group meets online approximately once per month to discuss key topics in graduate education.
The format will be determined by the membership. Historically, we have agreed on "themes" for each meeting and have either had volunteers begin with a brief presentation or have asked members to arrive having considered some brief guiding questions.Â
We will share resources from these meetings on this page, and collect key points and takeaways from these discussions to share and revisit at our culminating day-long annual meeting in July.
Each July we generate potential topics for future meetings, but we welcome new topic suggestions from participants. Potential topics may include the following:
Distinctions among kinds of graduate development (e.g., professional vs career development)
Connecting and collaborating among different offices
Capacity-building and scoping for centralized and local programming
Strategies to engage faculty with co-curricular offerings
Resources for helping graduate students find pathways into educational development
Monday October 19
12 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Monday November 16
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Add to collaborative slide deck for November meeting here
Monday December 21
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Monday January 18
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Monday February 15
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Monday March 15
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Monday April 19
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Monday May 17
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (Join via Zoom)
Summer In-Person Meeting Date TBD