“But what are you looking for?” The Conundrum of Evaluating Students Dr Steve Gennaro I distinctly remember as a younger teacher, standing in front of the lecture hall, at the podium after just explaining in great detail the final essay for a first year survey course and hearing nothing but silence from over 200 students. […]
Teaching with a Colleague….Triumph or Terror? By Mariela Giuliano and Mandy Frake-Mistak Teaching does not need to take place in isolation. In recognizing the added value of teaching or facilitating with a colleague, we do a lot of co-facilitation of courses and workshops at the Teaching Commons. Although here, facilitators are often Educational Developers, we […]
Meet the YU Experience Hub Kathleen Winningham Lisa EndersbyDirector, YU Experience Hub Educational Developer, Teaching Commons […]
THE 5 MINUTE ACCESSIBILITY MAKE OVER Maureen Barnes – Student Accessibility Services Things you can do immediately – The 5 Minute make over delivery always face the class and make eye contact when speaking use a microphone when necessary structure class time in a consistent manner post course materials such as syllabi or handouts in […]
A Meaningful Learning Experience Jennifer Klein, BSc, BScN candidate For some undergraduate students the pursuit of higher education is a means to an end, for many it is an endeavour of knowledge and meaningful experiences. Many students find the post-secondary learning curve steep and unforgiving. In a nursing program, we are expected to quickly recall […]
Why do we still print the course syllabus? Sean Kheraj, LA&PS Every August, my department puts out a call for print orders for course syllabi. All course instructors are asked to submit digital files to be printed for thousands of undergraduate and graduate students. On the first day of classes, professors and teaching assistants march […]
After the first week Raymond Peart – Student Accessibility Services Over the last four years, Student Accessibility Services has asked registered students what their experiences were during their first week of school. The responses were helpful because they helped our department to better support students in the present and for the future. SAS wanted to know […]
Welcome back! Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons September in the northern hemisphere is always a time for new beginnings, the onset of Fall and panic buying of stationery – well it is for me at least. I know that for some of us with summer classes, remediation and then the start of a new term it […]
The Teaching Commons Journal Club Blog: April 2018 Jerusha Lederman, Teaching Commons On April 24th, the Teaching Commons held the final Journal Club meeting of the 2017-2018 academic year. Dr. Jerusha Lederman facilitated a discussion about an article originally appearing in the Journal for Academic Librarianship entitled “The Case for e-Book Literacy: Undergraduate Students’ Experience […]
Putting Student Voices to Use Raymond Peart, ASD Coordinator From Strengthening Transitions for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder to All First Year Students Registered with Student Accessibility Services Since 2014, Student Accessibility Services has been surveying its First Year Cohort of newly registered students in their first year of service with the department. At first, […]