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Ģý (Ģý) appreciates the invaluable work teachers and counsellors do to support students. We consider you our colleagues and we value your relationship.

If you’re an international counsellor, please visit the Information for International Counsellors page.

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Whether you’re a teacher or counsellor in Ontario or elsewhere in Canada, we’re here to help! Join our email list to receive special event invitations, key information and all the latest updates from our community.

Teacher and guidance counsellor events

Teacher and Guidance Counsellor Event

 Thursday, February 6, 2025
 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
 Virtual event (Zoom)

Join us online for a mid-year update. Learn about admissions updates and all-things Undeclared Arts during a program spotlight, including Faculty of Arts pathways opportunities for your students.

Ģý staff will be available throughout the event to answer your questions about admissions, international students, programs and anything Ģý!


Event agenda:

Scott O'Neill

11 - 11:30 a.m.:

Admissions Update with Scott O'Neill, Director, Admissions & National Recruitment

Dr. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy

11:30 - 12 p.m.:

Spotlight on Undeclared Arts with Dr. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts

Winter Sample Lecture and Experience Series

 Thursday, February 20, 2025
 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
  George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church St.

Interested in bringing your class to Ģý? Register today to join us on campus to experience thought-provoking and engaging lectures or labs that demonstrate how Ģý is a leader in career-readiness education. Review the agenda to learn more about our winter series sessions offered.

9 - 10 a.m.: Campus Tour (optional)

10 - 10:20 a.m.: Welcome to Ģý!

  • Learn more about Ģý and how we're a leader in career focused education, making us one of the 10 best Canadian universities at preparing students for the workplace. Led by our Undergraduate Student Recruitment team, this welcome presentation will cover admissions information. After the presentation, your school will be assigned a Ģý Ambassador who will lead you around campus for the day.

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.:  Morning Sessions

  • Lab: Exploring Occupational Health and Safety for Applied Science (BaSc):
    Learn more about the vital realm of workplace safety. Here, students will gain hands-on experience with a myriad of health and safety devices crucial for safeguarding workers' well-being. From mastering sound level meters and heat stress monitors to understanding light intensity devices. Our lab is a cornerstone for aspiring safety professionals, fostering practical expertise essential for promoting a healthy and secure work environment.
  • Workshop: Engineering Egg Drop 
    Explore the world of engineering through a hands-on activity, students will be working in a team to build a space shuttle which will hold an egg. Student's inventions will be tested through a mini-competition.

    Through the workshop students will learn about the engineering design process, the interdisciplinary approach to engineering and principles of flight. 
  • Lab: Exploring Chemistry (TBC)
    In this lab session, you will analyze water samples using photospectrometry. This session will help you understand how chemistry is applied to real-world scenarios and its contributions to creating sustainable change for our environment.

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Lunch Break

12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: Afternoon Sessions

  • Lecture: Communicating with Comics (CMN 231)
    Comics are more than entertainment—they’re powerful tools for learning, expressing ideas, exploring identity, and telling meaningful stories. Their visual language connects with people across different backgrounds and emotions. This course explores comic theory and visual storytelling, examines examples with unique purposes, and challenges students to create their own scripts and comic pages.
  • Lecture: Stock Market Analysis 
    Explore the exciting world of Accounting & Finance! You’ll learn how to spot trends, understand market moves, and see how everyday decisions shape big financial outcomes. With major areas of development in this sector, this will be an engaging session to get ready to think like a future investment analyst. 
  • Lecture: Staring Back from Disability
    Discover how popular images of disability shape the way we understand difference and normalcy. We’ll talk about how these images and how communities work together to resist and reimagine these images. It’s a chance to rethink how we see disability and learn how we can make the world more inclusive for everyone.
  • Workshop: Plan Bold: What is Urban Planning?
    Urban and Regional Planning students gain the skills and tools necessary to make real change in communities around our urban campus. Join our student-led initiative, Plan Bold, to learn how space and urban planning can play a vital role making a positive impact in our society.

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.: Campus Tour (optional)

Schedule:

  • 10:00 - 10:20 a.m.: Welcome to Ģý!
  • 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.: Morning Lecture or Lab Experience Session
  • 11:30 - 12:30 p.m.: Lunch Break 
  • 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.: Afternoon Lecture or Lab Experience Session

Save the date!

 Friday, May 9, 2025
 On Campus


On-campus event

Join us for our next in-person event for a day of professional development, networking and connecting with the Ģý community to learn about what's new at our university!


Book visits and tours


Contact us

Do you have a question we can help support? Connect with us via our dedicated teacher and counsellor email and phone line.

 Email: guidance@torontomu.ca

 Phone: 416-979-5027

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Are you an international counsellor?

Please visit our Information for International Counsellors page for upcoming events catered to you!


Teacher and counsellor resources

Breaking barriers to university education

This is a Student Recruitment committee dedicated to collaborating with internal units and colleagues to provide resources and opportunities to students in communities with external challenges affecting access to university education. Interested in learning more? Contact us at visitus@torontomu.ca for more information and upcoming events.

Request materials

Fill out the Admissions Handbook Request Form if you wish to receive an order of admissions handbooks to your school. Please note that we only ship to Canadian addresses.

Important deadlines

For your students

We’ve outlined further information and advice you can provide your students, whether they are current applicants or thinking about applying to Ģý in the future.

Ģý is pleased to recognize the academic achievements of our students. We offer both generous entrance scholarships and prestigious industry sponsored awards. Once students have applied, they will have access to our online awards and scholarships platform, AwardSpring, which makes it easy to search for and apply for scholarships and awards.

Indigenous Student Services provide a culturally supportive environment to promote academic excellence and serve as a place to balance academic learning with traditional teachings and culture. Visit the Indigenous Student Services website to learn more about the supports provided to students that choose to self-identify.

CyberStart Canada

Brought to you by the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst at Ģý, CyberStart Canada is an immersive and gamified hands-on approach to learning cybersecurity! This opportunity takes students' computer science lessons beyond the classroom and provides them with a way to explore cybersecurity as a potential career. Let CyberStart Canada become the teacher! With engaging and fun content, it puts theory into practice using the world-renowned CyberStart game. Share with your students to access hands-on learning! Unlock levels using Python, Linux, coding and decoding, cryptography, and much more!

CSC: Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst

Attention all science educators!

Interested in programming for your students? Sign up for our SciXChange newsletter to receive programming and event opportunities all about science literacy once per term. We can’t wait to host your students!

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Ģý is a proud Higher Education Member of the Council of International Schools, the Ontario School Counsellors' Association and the National Association for College Admission Counseling.

CIS Member, OSCA/ACOSO, NACAC