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December 9, 2021

Building Truth and Reconciliation for Indigenous Peoples into Teaching

Reading Time: 6 minutesBy Elan Paulson and Sara Kafashan  Note: This post has been written from the perspective of two settlers in North America, incorporating research and voices from Indigenous Peoples. This post focuses on how faculty can reflect upon and respond to the Calls to Action as part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. We acknowledge that this is an iterative process, and offer this post as a...
Categories Decolonizing & Indigenizing Education/Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching
August 26, 2021

Accommodating and Supporting Students with Disabilities: Conestoga Faculty Stories

Reading Time: 7 minutesStories curated by Elan Paulson and Sara Kafashan Increasing numbers of students with disabilities are attending colleges in Ontario (Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario, n.d.). In fact, from April 2017 to April 2018, we had 1,334 students with a disability at Conestoga College, and this number increased to 1,380 from April 2018 to April 2019. And, according to Conestoga’s 2021-2024 Strategic Plan (see p. 13), ensuring inclusivity to promote student academic, personal, and...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Reflective Practice
August 26, 2021

A Foundational Understanding of Accessible Teaching and Learning at Conestoga College

Reading Time: 4 minutesAcross Ontario colleges and universities, there are growing numbers of students with disabilities (Learning Disabilities of Ontario, 2019). At Conestoga, we have seen our numbers of students with disabilities steadily increase. For example, across two academic years (i.e., 2017-2018 and 2018-2019), Conestoga had a 3.5% increase in students with a disability registered at Accessible Learning.  Despite these growing numbers, a...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching
June 23, 2021

Best Practices for Faculty to Support Students in Distress or in Crisis

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post, you will learn about best practices to support students in distress or in crisis. Some of the information here is based on More Feet on The Ground, a recommended, free, 25-minute online campus mental health training available to anyone working in post-secondary education. Setting Students Up For Success Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, students face numerous challenges...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching
June 23, 2021

Tips for Teaching Out-of-Country International Students

Reading Time: 3 minutesDue to the current situation, many students are attending classes from their home country. Students attending the courses from outside of Canada require some unique supports from the Professors teaching them. This teaching tip offers some key issues to understand and consider while teaching out-of-country international students. Teaching international students can be supremely rewarding. Eventually, students will overcome the barriers,...
Categories Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching/Modes of Delivery/Online Synchronous
March 12, 2021

10 (+1) Tips for Supporting International Students (and Everyone Else) While Teaching Online

Reading Time: 5 minutesKathryn Brillinger, Nasreen Sultana, and Laura Stoutenburg of Teaching and Learning, and Thomas Campbell and Kavya Adapala from Student Engagement.  Keep the Welcome Going Work on a big, warm welcome each class. Students will either be remote and trying to manage bandwidth and scheduling and new systems or in Ontario settling in or seeking housing, grocery stores, etc. Start your class right on time but expect some students to sometimes be late...
Categories Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching/Online Synchronous/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching for Learning
July 15, 2019

Prepare Early for Accommodations

Reading Time: < 1 minuteConnect with Accessibility Service’s resources for faculty to prepare to connect students with on campus supports. Be sure to read and take action on emails from Accessibility Services so you know if you have students seeking accommodations related to disabilities. Requests usually come in at the start of the semester, but a student may also activate or set up accommodations at any...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Assessment Design & Development/Effective Teaching/Quality Assessment
February 11, 2018

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...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching/Student Engagement & Communication
February 4, 2018

Hidden Communication Challenges

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy is it challenging for international students to adapt to new learning environments? How can faculty promptly determine whether international students comprehend class content? Is it ever appropriate to use informal, idiomatic language when teaching international students? Conestoga Context According to International at Conestoga… Scholarship of Teaching and Learning As the number of international students increases at many postsecondary institutions...
Categories Effective Teaching/Inclusive Teaching/Student Engagement & Communication
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