October 8, 2024 Mental Health: The Bigger Picture. Reading Time: 6 minutes The United Nations has declared Oct 10th World Mental Health Day. Throughout the month of October each year, the UN encourages industries and organizations across... Categories Accessible Learning/Communicating With Students/Teaching/Theory and Practice
May 8, 2024 Reach Them All with Universal Design for Learning Reading Time: 4 minutes Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is about making course instruction, materials, and content accessible to everyone right from the start. By doing this you will... Categories Accessible Learning/Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
May 6, 2024 Accessible Teaching with Copilot Reading Time: 5 minutes An overview of accessible learning at the College and provides ideas for supporting accessible learning using generative AI and AI-supported classroom tools. Categories Accessible Learning/AI and Teaching/Teaching
April 17, 2024 Teaching with Sign Language Interpreters (SLIs) or Interpreters in the Classroom Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction As of 2021, there are approximately 382,700 deaf and 3,827,000 hard of hearing people in Canada (Canadian Association of the Deaf, n.d.; Malkowski, 2021).... Categories Accessible Learning/Diverse Identities/Diversity/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
April 16, 2024 Children in the Classroom Reading Time: 5 minutes By Sara Kafashan and Lauren Spring Thinking about student parents Some of you may have combined studying and parenting and you know how many challenges... Categories Accessible Learning/Class Management/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching
January 31, 2024 Effective Whiteboard Use Reading Time: < 1 minute When teaching in-person, the whiteboard can be an effective teaching tool in the classroom. It helps students visualize content and recall important terms, concepts, and... Categories Accessible Learning/Collaboration/In-person
October 6, 2023 The Neurodiverse Classroom and Collaborative Work Reading Time: 3 minutes What? The main purpose of this teaching tip is to assist educators in supporting neurodiverse groups in collaborating. So What? This is important because 1... Categories Accessible Learning/Diverse Identities/Diversity/Equity and Inclusion/Teaching/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
June 29, 2022 Content Warnings in Teaching Reading Time: 9 minutes What are content warnings? How can I best prepare my class for a difficult topic? This tip provides examples of content warnings and other tips for teaching difficult topics. Categories Accessible Learning/Diverse Identities/Diversity/Teaching
August 31, 2021 Ways To Make Your Teaching More Accessible Reading Time: 2 minutes By Sara Kafashan [E]ducation providers have a legal duty to accommodate the needs of students with disabilities. Ontario Human Rights Commission, 2018 How can faculty... Categories Accessible Learning/Diversity
August 31, 2021 Trauma Informed Teaching Reading Time: 6 minutes As we begin our teaching each semester, we welcome strangers into our class whose past experiences are unknown to us. Over time, it sometimes becomes clear that a student is struggling with the impact of life experiences on the student’s ability to learn. This teaching tip will provide a research perspective and practical suggestions to help make your class a welcoming environment for students with trauma in their past (or present). Categories Accessible Learning/Teaching