Active Learning and Engagement

March 7, 2024

Exploring the Complex Ideas of Teachers and Teaching in South Asian Academic Culture

Reading Time: 4 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Consultant, Teaching and Learning South Asia has a collectivist society, which is a fascinating tapestry of interconnectedness where individual threads weave...

Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Communicating With Students/Diversity/Intercultural Awareness/Teaching International Students

February 21, 2024

Encouraging International Students to Take Notes in the Classroom

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Consultant, Teaching & Learning Notetaking has been one of the traditional and effective ways for post-secondary students to learn. However, as technology...

Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Teaching International Students/Theory and Practice

February 13, 2024

Leveraging your slide deck, Part 1: Scaffolding assessments for student success

Reading Time: 5 minutes A slide deck can be the focus point of a lesson, presenting key information related to the week’s learning outcomes. A slide deck, however, is...

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Student Focused Assessment

February 6, 2024

Peer Feedback: Grading Tool versus Assessment Tool

Reading Time: 3 minutes Peer feedback is a powerful classroom assessment tool that you can leverage to support students’ learning (Patchan et al, 2015; Yu & Schunn, 2023). Particularly...

Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Collaboration/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment

January 25, 2024

Active Learning Ideas

Reading Time: 11 minutes The ideas here are in alphabetical order. This is not an exhaustive list of active learning ideas and many of these ideas may be adapted...

Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching

November 30, 2023

Connecting Active Learning Activities and Assessments to Sustainability

Reading Time: 3 minutes Laura Matheson, an educator since 2008, joined Conestoga College in 2013 to develop and teach in the Sustainable Business Management post-graduate program. Passionate about education,...

Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Educational Development Opportunities/Faculty Stories/Group Work/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 20, 2023

Pacing

Reading Time: 7 minutes Have you ever struggled to fit all of the weekly content you need to cover into your one or two-hour class meeting and noticed yourself...

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

November 14, 2023

Strategies and scripts you can use when encountering common classroom management challenges

Reading Time: < 1 minute At one point or another in your teaching career, you’re likely to encounter classroom management challenges. Some of the most common include: Our team has...

Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Teaching

September 26, 2023

Gamification and Student Choice in Brick and Stone Mason Programs

Reading Time: 4 minutes Lori Martin first taught at Conestoga in 2014. Since 2019 she has been teaching in Conestoga’s Trades and Apprenticeship, specifically in the Masonry Apprenticeship and...

Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories/Gamification/Teaching

September 13, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Padlet

Reading Time: 3 minutes Promoting active participation in class is beneficial for students because they are incorporated into the activities and are contributors to their learning process. Essentially, students...

Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

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