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November 20, 2023 Pacing Reading Time: 7 minutes Have you ever struggled to fit all of the weekly content you need to cover into your one or two-hour class meeting and noticed yourself... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching
November 8, 2023 Teaching In Person: Delivery Skills Reading Time: 3 minutes This tip will provide suggestions for combining space, technology, and your own presence to help capture and hold your students’ attention. Categories Class Management/Teaching
September 29, 2023 Instructional Strategies Reading Time: 8 minutes What 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
September 29, 2023 Group Discussion Reading Time: 4 minutes Ideas for starting group discussion, keeping it going, and evaluating learning afterwards. Categories Group Work/Teaching
September 26, 2023 Gamification and Student Choice in Brick and Stone Mason Programs Reading Time: 4 minutes Lori Martin first taught at Conestoga in 2014. Since 2019 she has been teaching in Conestoga’s Trades and Apprenticeship, specifically in the Masonry Apprenticeship and... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories/Gamification/Teaching
September 6, 2023 The Success of International Students at Conestoga College Reading Time: 4 minutes By Dr. Sara Kafashan and Dr. Nasreen Sultana Note: This post contains initial thoughts from Sara and Nasreen, Teaching & Learning Consultants who originally came... Categories Teaching/Teaching International Students
July 27, 2023 Considerations for Course Planning Reading Time: 5 minutes These considerations for course planning can help guide faculty who are planning a new course or revising an existing course. Categories Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching
June 21, 2023 Observing Behaviours and Developing Solutions in a Collaborative Environment Reading Time: 5 minutes Amy Huskins has been a full-time professor in the Early Childhood Education program since 2015, and is currently the program coordinator for first-year students. She... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories/Teaching
June 20, 2023 The First Two Weeks: Basic Classroom Expectations Reading Time: 9 minutes At its best a classroom is a dynamic setting where teacher and learners support each other on the journey toward a common learning goal in... Categories Build Community/Lesson and Course Planning
