Welcome.

TOAST is an interdisciplinary organization and includes faculty from diverse academic fields who support their own SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) efforts and advocate for SoTL development with their colleagues. The TOAST CoP offers university teachers a community of colleagues and mentors – a place to learn through trial and error, engage in rich discussions, and develop new pedagogies. The seven participant universities include Dartmouth University, the University of Glasgow, Kwantlen University College (BC), Southeast Missouri State, Ryerson University (Ontario, Canada), and Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada) as well as monthly presentations by TOAST members.

The interdisciplinary nature of TOAST crosses departmental / subject matter boundaries to concentrate on the quality of teaching itself and adds richness to the discussions from a multitude of perspectives.

TOAST is open to anyone in quality teaching and research on college-level teaching and learning. You can join here.

What is a Community of Practice (CoP)? Lave and Wenger introduced the concept of a Community of Practice (CoP)--a set of relations among persons, activities and world, over time and in relation with other tangential and overlapping CoPs.

In this community, a newcomer learns from old-timers by participating in certain tasks that relate to the practice of the community. Over time the newcomer moves from peripheral to full participation (Legitimate Peripheral Participation [LLP]).

August 14, 2008, Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Bistro 2110 at the Blackwell Inn

Read here for information about past TOAST events.

The important part of a CoP like TOAST is participation, and we have a blog for this purpose. Don't be shy; let us know what you think.

The second Thursday of every month, we have a breakfast meeting, a face-to-face (F2F). Please join us and meet other TOAST members--you're always welcome.

August 14, 2008, Breakfast
7:30 a.m.
Bistro 2110 at the Blackwell Inn

If you want to be put on our
e-mail list which lets you know about our meetings, breakfasts, presentations, and international seminars, just let us know.

TOAST would like your publications for our site. If you have published or presented work on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, we would like to include your work on this web site. You can submit your work here.