Category: Lesson and Course Planning

December 4, 2024

Making Learning Comprehensible: Build it, Model it!

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat does making learning comprehensible mean? Are you being understood by your students and helping them retain information they are learning? Scaffolding and Modelling foster engagement and increase student success.

Categories Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

October 21, 2024

Designing the Core Activities in Your Lesson

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

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

August 27, 2024

Introduction to Planning Courses 

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 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.

Categories Lesson and Course Planning

July 23, 2024

Implementing BOPPPS Framework in the Hybrid Classroom

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

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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...

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

May 28, 2024

Content-Based Bridge-Ins

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

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

May 7, 2024

Online Asynchronous Teaching Toolkit

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

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April 3, 2024

Pre-Assessments in Lesson Planning

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

Categories Concept Mapping/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

April 2, 2024

Start, Continue, or End Learning with AI

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

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

March 27, 2024

Controlled, Semi-Controlled, and Free Practice

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

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning