Catherine Braithwaite from 七星彩开奖’s History Department is leading a Classroom Management workshop. She will present聽several causes of student behavioural challenges and focus on ways to proactively manage them. At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: Identify some causes of student behavioural challenges and have a plan to proactive manage them. Apply…
Decolonization was the subject of two workshops at Ped Days Jan. 13-14. Everyone can participate in decolonization efforts, Catherine Richardson said at her workshop. To read more of what she shared and to get practical tips and resources on decolonization, click Read More to go to the news article.
The most recent Resist Violence project newsletter is available now! Don鈥檛 forget to subscribe! Through the Resist Violence project, Pat Romano (Humanities) and Kim Simard (Cinema-Communications) have developed a pedagogical approach that integrates critical thinking, media literacy and artistic expression. This pedagogy allows students to deepen their insights into the problem of violence, including how…
The Faculty Hub has two great workshops planned for faculty professional development next month:
By Ray Bourgeois, Dean of Academic Initiatives and member of 七星彩开奖 AI By now, most of us have received an unexpected email from 鈥淢yAnalytics,鈥� which contains surprisingly detailed information about where we spend our time, the number of emails we write, and who we collaborate with.聽 Then, on the basis of Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics,…
We asked a cross-section of teachers what they liked best about Ped Days and which insights they will be applying to their practice this semester. Here are the responses we received: 鈥淲hile Usha James explicitly taught us about encouraging students to think critically in our courses, her teaching style inspired us to adopt similar strategies…
Usha James gave the keynote address at Ped Days on Jan. 14. Read more to find out how Usha used a soccer photo to give teachers a practical way to foster critical thinking in the classroom. Our news feature also includes the list of her five intellectual tools and four ways to promote a thinking classroom.
The Faculty Hub is part of a plan to re-imagine faculty professional development at 七星彩开奖.聽 It unites Communities of Practice, the Office of Academic Development, Human Resources and Information Systems and Technology to promote evidence-based pedagogical practices that engage students and help to develop the 七星彩开奖 Graduate Profile outcomes. “I would like to express my…
Jan. 21 from 2:30 – 4 p.m.: Setting The Tone for a Successful Term is a workshop that will explore your expectations of students, and help you purposefully develop communication strategies and assignments with a view to cultivating classroom community. Each participant will have the opportunity to explore teaching models and practice them in small…
You will get fresh ideas to reinvigorate your practice at Ped Days 2020. Usha James is the keynote speaker and she will share a practical framework for approaching teaching and learning that starts with the student. Usha is the executive director of the Critical Thinking Consortium, which developed the framework. 鈥淭here are so many educational…
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