June 26, 2023 Messaging Your Students Reading Time: 5 minutes Tips for writing engaging email and announcement messages that will encourage students to take action. Categories Communicating With Students/Teaching
June 23, 2023 Ideas for Encouraging Equitable Participation in Class Activities and Discussion Reading Time: 10 minutes Consider practice ideas to make discussion more equitable in your classroom Categories Diversity/Equity and Inclusion
April 25, 2023 TPACK for Teaching Reading Time: 2 minutes Learn about the TPACK model of teacher knowledge. Categories Teaching/Theory and Practice
April 20, 2023 Assessment Proctoring Tools Reading Time: 2 minutes Conestoga licenses several assessment proctoring apps or software. In assessments using online quizzes built within eConestoga, one or more of these tools may be used... Categories Assessment/Tech For Teaching
March 14, 2023 When Students Are Absent from a Group Work Assignment Reading Time: 5 minutes Ideas for steps to take when a group member has been absent from a group assignment. Categories Group Work/Teaching
March 1, 2023 Engagement and Course Work Challenges Reading Time: 4 minutes Tips for getting help before you start your asynchronous course delivery. Categories Online Asynchronous
February 21, 2023 The Aubrey Hagar Distinguished Teaching Award Reading Time: 4 minutes Aubrey Hagar had a passion for education and learning, and this was evident throughout his personal and professional life. Aubrey’s professional career included contributions to... Categories Awards
February 11, 2023 Discussion Forums Reading Time: 5 minutes Consider how to utilize discussion forum posts in your asynchronous or hybrid classroom. Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Hybrid/Online Asynchronous/Teaching
January 9, 2023 More Ways to Up Engagement in Your Synchronous Online Class Reading Time: 5 minutes Creating Opportunities for Higher Levels of Engagement Students experience higher learning gains when they are taught through a more interactive classroom (Knight & Wood, 2005).... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching
October 25, 2022 Getting Students to Participate in Breakout Rooms Reading Time: 7 minutes “[B]reakout rooms do not always magically create engagement and higher levels of learning.” (Saltz & Heckman, 2020, para. 16) Breakout groups are used as a discussion... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Class Management/Group Work/Online Synchronous/Teaching
