Category: Theory and Practice

February 18, 2025

Journey to Mastery: Stages of Teaching Professionalism from Novice to Expert

Reading Time: 4 minutesMany teacher educators refer to the initial years of teaching as the “swimming and surviving” phase for new teachers. The most significant difference between novice...

Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice

October 8, 2024

Mental Health: The Bigger Picture.

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe United Nations has declared Oct 10th World Mental Health Day. Throughout the month of October each year, the UN encourages industries and organizations across...

Categories Accessible Learning/Communicating With Students/Teaching/Theory and Practice

July 21, 2024

Motivating Your Students to Learn: What Works, What Doesn’t

Reading Time: 6 minutesThink back to a time when you were really motivated to learn something, particularly when you felt the activity was engaging and joyful.  It could...

Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice/Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

February 21, 2024

Encouraging International Students to Take Notes in the Classroom

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

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

January 17, 2024

Want to Improve Learning? It’s Easy as Repeat, Repeat, Repeat.

Reading Time: 6 minutesWe all want our students to remember what we teach them.  This is a reasonable expectation considering all that time you spent preparing lessons, activities...

Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice

September 29, 2023

Instructional Strategies

Reading Time: 8 minutesWhat are instructional strategies and why are they important? Whether you recognize it or not, almost everything you do in the classroom is an instructional...

Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice

April 25, 2023

TPACK for Teaching

Reading Time: 2 minutesLearn about the TPACK model of teacher knowledge.

Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice

September 8, 2022

Adult Learning Principles for College Teaching

Reading Time: 5 minutesHow can we be sure our practices reflect the fact that all of our students are adult learners? Conestoga’s youngest students are 17 year-olds who...

Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice

June 14, 2022

Student Self-Directedness in Online Learning 

Reading Time: 11 minutesConsider how ready for self-directed learning your students are, and provide appropriate supports that meet their learning needs.

Categories Theory and Practice

February 28, 2022

First Graduate of the Post-Secondary Teaching Certificate

Reading Time: 3 minutesMy name is Wesley Butler and I am the first graduate of Conestoga’s Certificate in Post-Secondary Teaching. In my full-time support staff role, I’m responsible...

Categories Educational Development Opportunities/Theory and Practice

June 9, 2021

How Collaboration Across Disciplines Can Spice Up Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Martha Terdik, Chris Arsenault and Cheryl Williams Martha Terdik teaches in the Bachelor of Public Relations Program (BPR). After a successful 25-year career in...

Categories Build Community/Faculty Stories/Teaching/Theory and Practice

May 1, 2020

The Benefits of Engaging the Senses in Lessons

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis teaching tip provides some insight into brain functioning to understand why certain teaching strategies—such as activities that appeal to the human senses–are good for learning.

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Theory and Practice