Category: 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/Micro-credentials/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