Were you at the College’s Ped Day on September 25, 2026? Even if you were not, you could benefit from the resources offered by our speakers, such as keynote Dr. Fiona Rawle, and the many facilitators.
Dr. Fiona Rawle has a Ph.D in Pathology and Molecular Medicine and is the Associate Dean, Pedagogical Development and Scholarship, at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and a Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Dept. of Biology. Her research focuses on failure-driven learning, the science of learning, and bias in STEM. She has received numerous awards focused on teaching, including the 3M National Teaching Fellowship. Dr. Rawle routinely gives science of learning workshops across North America, and is also a member of the University of Toronto’s TIDE group (Toronto Initiative for Diversity & Excellence), through which she gives lectures and workshops on unconscious bias, equity, and diversity.
Learning from failure is a core component of education, however it is not often deliberately taught in secondary and CEGEP courses. There has been a dramatic increase in advice to “fail forward” and “fail fast”, however the corresponding structural and sustained supports are sometimes lacking. In this interactive session we will dive into the science...
Building directly on the keynote session, this hands-on workshop will engage participants in building classroom activities and assignments that highlight the space for learning (and failure) as a process. Specifically, we will move from why failure matters to how we design for it. Drawing from the science of learning, participants will be guided through explicit...
- Chantale Giguère, Laetitia Desanti, Laurent Duval, Jane Hudson
En sous-groupes, vous explorerez des questions liées à l’engagement, à la préparation et à la rétroaction dans votre cours EN français. Ensemble, nous discuterons également de pistes de solution à propos de vos défis, de vos besoins et de vos questions. Apportez votre propre tasse pour le café!
How can we help our students develop cognitive resilience and autonomy in an age where effort is so easily avoided and the temptation to avoid any form of challenge or difficulty is so powerful? To inoculate against “cognitive surrender” (Shaw & Nave, 2026) we must first equip our students with tools they will need to...
Are you curious about SMART Notebook or MIRO but not quite sure where to start? This beginner-friendly, hands-on workshop is for you! We’ll play with the basic features of both digital whiteboard tools, try out simple activities that you can use in and out of an active-learning classroom, and explore ways they can make lessons...
Every classroom includes a wide range of learner strengths and weaknesses. How can we design learning experiences that acknowledge and support such variability? This session will introduce core inclusive design principles behind the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework followed by examples of Dawson teachers who are using this approach in a variety of teaching...
Teachers care about academic integrity. We explain the consequences of cheating and plagiarism, we report cases of misconduct, and we create in-class assessments to exclude generative AI contributions. What more can we do? Lots more, say scholars. Let’s discuss! The session will open with a summary of current research related to academic integrity. Teachers will...
This hands-on session will introduce faculty to the new features and improvements available in Moodle 5.1 and explore practical ways to use them to enhance course organization, communication, assessment, and the student learning experience. Participants will see demonstrations of key Moodle 5.1 features, including improvements to the course interface, Activities overview, question banks, the text...
Vous vous demandez comment inciter vos étudiantes et étudiants à réellement tirer profit de votre rétroaction? Vous avez parfois l’impression que les notes finales ne reflètent pas fidèlement le développement des compétences? Cette formation sur les pratiques alternatives de notation (PAN) est faite pour vous! Les PAN offrent des moyens concrets de mieux soutenir les...
- Charles Bierbrier, Marie-Eve Dufour, Lara Falquero, Stephen Hinton, Tannia Ditchburn, Einat Idan
In this session, faculty members from the Internship Faculty Working group will present the specific tools, templates and practices they created to strengthen the design of their internship courses and improve the overall internship learning experience for students. They will share their tips for aligned assessment, address common internship challenges and present the group’s collective...
- Naj Sumar, Concordia University, Dr. Jessica Bleuer, Concordia University, Cory Legassic
What do we do when microaggressions, geopolitical conflict, hate speech, or other difficult moments enter our classrooms? This experiential Teaching Lab moves beyond discussing strategies to actually rehearsing them. Using scenarios drawn from postsecondary classrooms and Forum Theatre techniques, participants will collectively strategize, try interventions, reflect on their effects, and experiment again—building practical skills and...
In this presentation I will describe the Integrative Project course, one of the features of the new Science Program. I will focus on the Math/Physics flavor, which I have taught for the first time during the Winter 2026 Semester. I will describe the structure of the course, its challenges and I will show some of...
This session showcases assignments and feedback practices explored in our 2025-26 Faculty Learning Community (FLC). Attendees will reflect on their teaching practices and workshop ways to design assignments with feedback in mind. We will provide concrete tools and resources meant to help improve student success without increasing teacher workloads.
Teaching is not only a cognitive activity: it is an embodied and emotional one. This interactive workshop explores how paying attention to what happens in our bodies can help us better understand and navigate our emotional responses in the classroom. Through experiential somatic practices, we will investigate moments of frustration, anxiety, and excitement, and consider...
