Tag: Building Community

Creating Sense of Belonging: From an International Student’s Perspective

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Hiral Joshi, International Faculty Development Assistant, Teaching and Learning I am Hiral Joshi a full-time student for the Career Development Practitioner course at the Doon campus. I graduated Teaching English as a Second Language in April 2021 from Conestoga. I was born and brought up in the western part of India. I did my Masters in Linguistics and taught...

Preventing Classroom Management Challenges

Reading Time: 7 minutesHow do expert teachers handle classroom management? The research into expertise in teaching shows that expert teachers do not behave like experts in high-risk professions (e.g., paramedics, fire fighters, policing, etc.) in regards to speed. In high-risk fields, experts analyze the situation quickly, come up with a plan of action, and implement the plan more quickly than novices, in part because novices...

Accommodation-Related Classroom Management

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat are some avoidable occurrences when providing instruction to students when some students may have accommodations? How can I best manage student behaviours while always keeping accommodations in mind? Conestoga Context This will be the first of four tips about classroom management. This past week has brought up many questions about responding to and managing student behaviors in the class...