to learn in smaller groups with knowledgeable instructors. In the sciences, TAs with the skills you're trying to develop run labs to supplement labs lectures. This is great. But what happens when tutorials begin to look more like lectures than discussions? Or when your lab demonstrator is so overexerted that you can't get her to your lab station when you need her? There is currently no limit to the size of labs or tutorials at this university. Almost half (42%) of tutorials at U of T have more than thirty-five students. Over one hundred tutorials on our campus have more than one hundred students .  Good teaching becomes impossible with tutorials this big. Your TAs are often forced to work extra hours without pay in order to offer even the most minimal support. TAs and students have a shared stake in ending huge tutorials: If it's a bad place for you to learn, it's also a bad place for us to work. We're proposing to reduce tutorial and lab sizes through a "cap" system. Under our proposal, tutorials would have a "soft cap" of twenty students. If a tutorial exceeds twenty, the University would have to offer the TA extra paid hours for the extra work required. Absolutely no tutorials would be allowed to have more than 50 students. Labs would require one lab demonstrator for every 25 students, period. So far, the University has just said "No" to our proposals. In fact, they've stated that they don't think that