The Top Ten Lessons I Learned Teaching a Fully On-Line Course for the Very First Time Peter P. Constantinou, PhD School of Public Policy and Administration I was asked by my department to mount a fully on-line version of a course I have taught before. My first reaction was less than positive, because one of […]
Simulated Person Methodology Eva Peisachovich, Faculty of Health “We got to practice stuff that you might not experience in placement”. “I feel like it makes the transition from knowledge to application a lot easier”. “Just talking to them about a health history after that simulation made it so much easier”. These statements were from students […]
The Subway Emergency Exercise as Reflective Teaching and Learning Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier, Teaching Commons For the longest time, the idea of the subway coming to York seemed like a diffuse dream, a target that kept moving further and further down the road. Even though I can now see a metro station standing next to Kaneff Tower, […]
A Note about Autism Raymond Peart, PhD candidate, Faculty of Education I am submitting this piece as a PhD Candidate from the Faculty of Education. It has been derived from my comprehensive proposal. To this day, there are many more questions than answers surrounding autism. Two distinct strands of research exist, one focussed on the […]
Teaching Commons Journal Club – Educational Development as Pink Collar Labor Celia Popovic and Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons The Teaching Commons Journal Club met in May to discuss the paper by Lesley Bernhagen and Emily Gravett: Educational Development as Pink Collar Labor: Implications and Recommendations, published in ‘To Improve the Academy’, 28 January 2017, available […]
Teaching as Activism: A Platform for Social Change Andrea A. Davis, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities My teaching philosophy and practice are framed around a simple concept: teaching as activism. Each September as I stand before a new set of first-year students in Cultures of Resistance in the Americas: The African American Experience (AP/HUMA 1300), my largest […]
Journal Club Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons The Teaching Commons hosted the inaugural meeting of the Journal Club this past April 26th. Our discussion of Putting Literacy in its Place centered on the author’s narrative account of three generations of the same family and their complex relationship with literacy. Our participants’ were particularly interested in discussing how we […]
Ontario eTeaching and eLearning Community of Practice, live debate Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons Have you ever wondered how to find people who might be interested in discussing issues around eLearning? Perhaps you are a faculty member interested in making greater use of technology in your teaching. Maybe you are an IT specialist who supports teachers […]
What does it mean to be on the “frontlines of health”? Designing assignments to train students to discover “the story behind the story” in health policy. Claudia Chaufan, Associate Professor, School of Health Policy & Management Samantha Sanghee Yoo, Student, Health Studies Program, 1st year This assignment, labeled “guest lecture report”, is one course requirement within […]
The Pedagogical Workout: Bootcamps as Innovative Teaching Practice Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons I was recently invited to attend a symposium on technology and pedagogy hosted by Contact North. The meeting, held in downtown Toronto, brought together colleagues from a diverse group of institutions and organizations under the common goal of exploring the intersections of technology and […]