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Educators as Designers: A Practice-Research conversation In recent years, it has become increasingly evident that bringing together the many aspects of evidence-based instruction is very much a design process. Educators as designers emphasize this new role for instructors when they implement student-centred approaches, grounded in socio-cultural views of learning. The theme of this year’s conference…
We are surrounded by colleagues who are actively promoting academic excellence, using innovative pedagogies, and supporting their academic communities. They deserve recognition for their invaluable work! Take the time to nominate them for one of the Awards below: • Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Award: o College Instructors o University Instructors o Pedagogical Counsellors…
February 17th, 2023, 2:00 – 3:00 Paul Kirschner is the author of over 400 scholarly articles and one of the most highly cited scholars. His 2020 publication, How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice, has been a bestseller. And his 2022 follow-up, How Teaching Happens, promises to be…
About this event In the first of this 2-part webinar series, Dr. Kim Gomez discussed how working collaboratively in partnership can be enhanced through the use of co-design, an exciting and evidence-based approach to increasing the likelihood of successful adoption and implementation of innovative educational initiatives. Montreal-based examples of such initiatives include the Learning Communities…
November 2, 2022 Faculty Focus Anna Conway, EdD Around the semester midpoint you may be noticing that some of your students are becoming overwhelmed, may lack motivation, or feel disconnected from the class. Sound familiar? Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term…
The conference will take place June 2 and 3, 2022. Collaborative Dialogues: The Role of Active Learning in Today’s Educational Realities In June 2022, SALTISE will be bringing our network together for another year of celebrating and deepening our commitment to pedagogical connections, conversations, and communities. The 11th annual conference theme invites us to reflect…
How do you know that student learning is actually happening? Usually through assessment, right? But how can you assess students without just a quiz or paper? How can you empower them and motivate them to learn and want to learn, so that assessment becomes something that is both powerful for you as an instructor and…
Getting Started with CourseFLow: A Web-based Tool to Visualize and Manage Your Program & Curricula Designs March 15, 2022 | 12:30 – 2:00 PM Early Career Teaching at the College Level March 16, 2022 | 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Better Assessments With Backward Design: Bringing critical thinking into the questioning February 25, 2022 | 2:30 – 4:00 PM There have been several national calls in the US to increase critical thinking in college classrooms, particularly in science classrooms. Despite improving the cognitive level in instruction and classroom activities, assessments are often poorly constructed…
ComPAIR: Using Assessment to Support Learning ComPAIR: Using Assessment to Support Learning Friday, February 4th @ 2:30 – 4:00PM (14h30 – 16h) EST From Fine Arts to Physics, instructors/teachers acknowledge the challenge of promoting students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills. One effective way to scaffold the development of these high-level cognitive processes is to…
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