In-person

June 24, 2024

Ready, Set, Teach! Navigating pre-class jitters and set-up

Reading Time: 3 minutes You’ve got your lesson planned, your water bottle filled, and your slides ready, but still, you’ve got butterflies in your stomach as you approach the...

Class Management/In-person/Reflective Practice/Teaching

April 8, 2024

In-Person Proctoring How-To’s

Reading Time: 4 minutes In-class proctored tests and exams offer the opportunity to measure student learning in the moment, under observation. These types of assessments can also present you...

Academic Integrity/Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/In-person

February 16, 2024

Managing Classroom PPE and Safety Protocols

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post addresses managing the classroom with respect to the use of personal protective equipment use, discussing safety protocols with students, and responding to safety situations and incidents.

Class Management/In-person/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...

Accessible Learning/Collaboration/In-person

August 11, 2022

Teaching in a Wide Classroom

Reading Time: 4 minutes This tip will provide suggestions for making the best use of wide classrooms with two projectors on side-by-side whiteboards, particularly if the first set of rows is close to the front wall so that students at each end of the first row will likely only be able to fully see one whiteboard.

In-person/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

July 17, 2022

Teaching on Campus

Reading Time: 3 minutes What can I expect in before coming on campus to teach? What does a typical classroom look like? What tech can I expect when I...

Classroom Tech/In-person/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching

May 4, 2022

A Quick Checklist for Setting Up the First Class

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a collaborative post brought to you by the Teaching and Learning Consultants. If you are new to teaching and to Conestoga College, you...

Hybrid/In-person/Lesson and Course Planning/New Faculty/Online Synchronous/Teaching

March 26, 2022

Students Talking in an In-Person Class

Reading Time: 5 minutes This teaching tip offers strategies for addressing students “side talking” in an in-person class in a kind, respectful way. It also describes ideas for structured and unstructured talk time in class.

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/In-person/Teaching

November 25, 2021

Preparing to Teach While Wearing a Mask

Reading Time: 7 minutes As we get ready for our in-person classes, how can we prepare to teach so that everyone can hear and process what we say? This teaching tip gathers advice and suggestions from experts in hearing and education for some no-tech practices and some-tech-enabled practices to help ensure maximum clarity in the classroom.

In-person/Teaching

February 19, 2021

Breaks in the In-Person and Synchronous Online Classroom

Reading Time: 4 minutes “For each class, faculty will […] [e]nsure breaks occur during the lesson time to support student needs.” – Course Delivery Procedure (January 2021) Breaks are...

Hybrid/In-person/Online Synchronous/Teaching

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Category: In-person