Teaching

April 29, 2021

Overview of the Essential Elements

Reading Time: 3 minutes All courses must provide Essential Elements to students. Learn more about the Essential Elements for your course.

New Faculty/Teaching/Teaching Requirements and Guidelines

April 26, 2021

Rubric Items and Riders

Reading Time: 3 minutes Checklist and Statements for Ensuring Academic Integrity (AI) in Submissions Statements around academic integrity share clear expectations with students. You can use the points below...

Assessing Learning/Group Work/Teaching

April 20, 2021

Teaching Software, Hardware, and Cybersecurity

Reading Time: 2 minutes Apply these tips in your teaching to engage students and to monitor their progress during lessons. 1. Show students the Big Picture Always start with the big picture for a new unit of learning....

Lesson and Course Planning/Tech For Teaching

April 13, 2021

Marking Dilemmas

Reading Time: 5 minutes During challenging times, how should we proceed with grading in order to balance academic rigour and fairness with care and understanding for our students? This teaching tip helps you to manage a number of marking dilemmas you may experience.

Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/Rubrics and Marking/Teaching

March 31, 2021

Working With Mark Pushback and Course Concerns from Students

Reading Time: 4 minutes Thoughts by Kathryn Brillinger on the challenges of ensuring clarity on expectations and building rapport with online and remote students, and suggestions for responding to students who push back on the marks they receive.

Assessing Learning/Assessment Challenges/Online Synchronous/Rubrics and Marking/Teaching

March 8, 2021

Encouraging Online Group Work Management with Microsoft Planner

Reading Time: < 1 minute Online Group Work Students’ ability to organize tasks and manage time can affect their online group work experiences. In online team situations, Hurst and Thomas...

Collaboration/Group Work/Tech For 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

January 29, 2021

How our Online Synchronous Workshops Benefit a Trades Faculty’s Students

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sheri Copplestone teaches Computer Applications in Conestoga’s School of Trades and Apprenticeship, and facilitates the Entrepreneurial Program for Newcomers. She is also involved in the...

Faculty Stories/Online Synchronous