Quick quiz: Promoting student engagement
Take this quick quiz to get ideas for engaging your students in learning; then challenge yourself to try at least one new one!
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Inspire students to engage with primary resources
Interested in learning how your students might engage with historical documents, eye-witness accounts, images, and early printed maps, or modern archival papers and digital collections? Join us to learn more at this hands-on interdisciplinary workshop on how to identify, find, interpret and contextualize the extensive range of primary sources available at the McGill Library.
Feedback strategies: Engaging students in dialogue - Part 1: Annotating writing submissions
Part 1: Annotating writing submissions
Use your voice to engage students in learning
Can you imagine enhancing students’ engagement in class by increasing the vitality of a single sentence? Join voice and presentation skills coach Sanders Whiting for a workshop where you will practice pausing, word emphasis, rate of speech, and gesture to communicate more effectively with your students.
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Sustainability Education Resources
This TL KB article is intended to support instructors with integrating dimensions of sustainability into their courses. The resources provide background information and are intended to encourage reflection, inform instructors’ pedagogical decisions, and advance sustainability in curricula in meaningful ways. Reflection questions to get you started and guide your reading …
Teaching strategies to engage students in learning
Wondering how to enhance student engagement, promote discussions, and encourage deep learning? Join us for a session where you will experience several strategies through demonstrations and peer sharing. You will leave with concrete ideas for planning your classes.
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EDI statements to welcome students and set the tone
An EDI statement in course outlines and/or on myCourses lets you share with students your values, understandings, commitments, and pedagogical actions relating to EDI. It can also describe how students might engage with one another and with the course material. See sample EDI statements and a template to help you customize a statement. Get started with reflection questions:
How does your course outline (dis)engage students? Reviewing course outlines for equity and accessibility
Participants will examine ways to promote engagement by enhancing equity and accessibility of course outlines. We will explore student perspectives, strategies for fostering inclusion, and reflect on potential changes we might like to make. This session is inspired by the Faculty of Science Inclusive Teaching Initiative but is relevant across disciplines.
Small teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning
Learn about retrieval practice in Ch. 1 of James Lang’s “Small Teaching.” Implementation techniques include “brief classroom or online learning activities, one-time interventions, and small modifications in course design or communication with students.” (Publisher’s description) Each technique has the potential to deepen students’ engagement with course content. ebook available through McGill Library
Enhancing students’ agency and engagement in learning through retrieval practice
In response to students’ lack of essential studying strategies, we aimed to foster students’ ability to study effectively, enhancing their course engagement. One learning strategy explored was retrieval practice. We will showcase evidence-based examples of retrieval practice implemented in our classes to support students’ ability to recall previously learned material.
Register here!Positive impacts of tone in course outlines
Ever thought about the positive impacts of tone in course outlines or where in a course outline tone is most likely to have an impact on student perceptions of the course? Research shows a course outline written in a warm, friendly style can enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.
Quick quiz: Class preparedness
Test your knowledge of strategies to help ensure students come to class prepared to engage in learning.
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Feedback strategies: Engaging students in dialogue - Part 2: Submitting interactive cover sheets
Part 2: Submitting interactive cover sheets
Attending to microaggressions in the classroom
Have you or your students experienced a microaggression in class? While it may only take a moment for a microaggression to occur, its impact can last longer. Join us for an introduction to microaggressions and strategies for attending to them before, during, and after they occur, to better support students’ full engagement in their learning.
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Course Design Workshop
Would you like to (re)design one of your courses and enhance your teaching skills? In this hands-on workshop, we will discuss learning-centered course design principles and support you with developing an in-depth Course Plan, which you can use to help prepare your course outline. This is a great opportunity to exchange feedback among peers to improve course design and teaching approaches.