Category: Accessible Learning

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

August 26, 2021

Accommodating and Supporting Students with Disabilities: Conestoga Faculty Stories

Reading Time: 7 minutes Stories curated by Elan Paulson and Sara Kafashan Increasing numbers of students with disabilities are attending colleges in Ontario (Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario, n.d.). In...

Categories Accessible Learning/Diversity/Faculty Stories

August 26, 2021

A Foundational Understanding of Accessible Teaching and Learning at Conestoga College

Reading Time: 4 minutes Across Ontario colleges and universities, there are growing numbers of students with disabilities (Learning Disabilities of Ontario, 2019). At Conestoga, we have seen our numbers...

Categories Accessible Learning/Diversity

June 23, 2021

Best Practices for Faculty to Support Students in Distress or in Crisis

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post, you will learn about best practices to support students in distress or in crisis. Some of the information here is based on...

Categories Accessible Learning/Diverse Identities/Diversity

May 5, 2021

Read&Write for Studying and Research

Reading Time: 2 minutes The following is a message from Conestoga College’s Library Services department. Read&Write is a literacy toolbar that helps students enhance their reading, writing, studying, and...

Categories Accessible Learning/Classroom Tech

December 1, 2020

Supporting Privacy Rights of People with Disabilities

Reading Time: 2 minutes Information and links on protecting the rights of people to disclose or withhold information about theirdisability

Categories Accessible Learning/Diversity

November 16, 2020

Course Completion Assessment Process for Students with Documented Disabilities

Reading Time: 4 minutes An FAQ on the Course Completion Assessment process and form, used by Accessible Learning and the program team to provide an opportunity for the meaningful consideration of retroactive requests by students with a documented disability.

Categories Accessible Learning/Student Success Services

July 15, 2019

Accessible Board Work

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Be sure that your board work is accessible to all students. The following tips will help you create clear and legible board writing.

Categories Accessible Learning/Diversity