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May 25, 2022

Asking Effective Questions

Reading Time: 6 minutesYou may want to ask questions of your class during lessons in order to: This post provides some ideas and examples for how to form and deliver questions to achieve each of these goals.  1. Encourage Participation and Recall Students are less likely to answer your questions if they find them confusing, vague, or unrelatable. Students are more likely to speak...
Categories Assessment Design & Development/Effective Teaching/Quality Assessment/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching for Learning
May 25, 2022

Oral Presentation No-Shows

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Elan Paulson and Kathryn Brillinger This tip provides some information about how to plan for and manage absences during in-class individual and group oral presentations. Every semester you are likely to have situations where students have (hopefully) done presentation pre-work but miss the requirement to present at a certain time. Some of the reasons for this might be Setting...
Categories Effective Teaching/Student Engagement & Communication
April 13, 2022

Active and Problem-Based Learning Resources

Reading Time: 8 minutesWhether teaching virtually, in person, or any combination of the two, faculty are often looking for ways to keep students engaged during class. Active learning and problem-based learning (PBL) approaches provide students with meaningful and memorable pedagogical experiences that encourage them to be the drivers of their own learning and to relate what is discussed in class to the outside...
Categories Effective Teaching/Library Services/Teaching for Learning
April 6, 2022

Delivering Indigenous Land Acknowledgements

Reading Time: 6 minutesAuthor’s Acknowledgement This post has been written from the perspective of a first-generation settler, living on the traditional lands of the Attawandaron, Anishinaabek, and Haudenosaunee Peoples, and the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit in Guelph, Ontario. This resource is a work in progress and is by no means exhaustive. I acknowledge the limitations that my social positionality...
Categories Decolonizing & Indigenizing Education/Effective Teaching
March 31, 2022

Start Your Class with Content-Based Icebreakers

Reading Time: 4 minutesContent-based icebreakers are icebreakers are short discussion or active learning activities that incorporate a topic or key concept of the course or class topic. They may be distinguished from get-to-know-you icebreakers, in which students share about themselves and/or discuss topics of interest but that are not directly course related.  Why are content-based icebreakers particularly useful?  In focusing on the subject...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Teaching for Learning
March 3, 2022

Creating Sense of Belonging: From an International Student’s Perspective

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Hiral Joshi, International Faculty Development Assistant, Teaching and Learning I am Hiral Joshi a full-time student for the Career Development Practitioner course at the Doon campus. I graduated Teaching English as a Second Language in April 2021 from Conestoga. I was born and brought up in the western part of India. I did my Masters in Linguistics and taught...
Categories Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching/Student Engagement & Communication
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