Lesson and Course Planning

October 21, 2024

Designing the Core Activities in Your Lesson

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Teaching and Learning Before you start reading, ask yourself the following questions: Ideally, when a professor receives a course, in most...

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Lesson Planning/Teaching

August 27, 2024

Introduction to Planning Courses

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Teaching and Learning 5-part learning series on planning and developing courses, developed in collaboration with Curriculum Planning & Operations and the Online Learning Centre, will be offered again in Fall 2024.

Lesson and Course Planning

July 23, 2024

Implementing BOPPPS Framework in the Hybrid Classroom

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this teaching tip we will explore the implementation of BOPPPS in a weekly hybrid class.

Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

June 24, 2024

Planning for Post-Assessments: So…What did they Learn?

Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’s Not What We Teach; It’s What They Learn” – Alfie Kohn Wondering what students have learned in the lesson you’ve just delivered? Have students...

Assessing Learning/Giving Feedback/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

May 28, 2024

Content-Based Bridge-Ins

Reading Time: 9 minutes Many of you are likely already familiar with the BOPPPS framework for lesson planning. While BOPPPS is not the only way to plan a lesson...

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

May 7, 2024

Online Asynchronous Teaching Toolkit

Reading Time: 2 minutes This toolkit provides resources to support your new teaching role in an online course or your continued growth as an online educator.

Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

April 3, 2024

Pre-Assessments in Lesson Planning

Reading Time: 2 minutes Wondering what students already know about a topic and how this informs our lesson planning? This post will provide a short explanation as to why...

Concept Mapping/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

April 2, 2024

Start, Continue, or End Learning with AI

Reading Time: 5 minutes Use AI selectively and in only part of your learning activity or assessment to foster student engagement while building genAI literacy skills.

Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

March 27, 2024

Controlled, Semi-Controlled, and Free Practice

Reading Time: 3 minutes This post describes how controlled, semi-controlled, and free practice activities can support and develop student knowledge, skills, and confidence throughout your classroom lesson.

Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning

March 12, 2024

Leveraging your slide deck, Part 2: Engaging students in the classroom

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...