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Clinical teaching stoppage delays Quebec med students’ graduation
Legault government passes special legislation changing doctors’ pay structure and ordering clinical educators back to work.
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TA Tipline, part 2: grading, mentoring, invigilating, oh my!
This is the final instalment in our two-part series where experienced teaching assistants offer guidance to both first-timers and veterans looking for new ideas.
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Considering non-disposable assignments for your teaching
This is an opportunity to create value beyond an individual student’s learning.
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Teaching students the benefits of planning backwards
By visualizing the end goal of a project or assignment from the get-go, students can clearly identify which steps are truly necessary.
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SoTL: the party that no one really wants to go to
Why does the scholarship of teaching and learning remain a hard sell to faculty?
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Royal Roads moves the classroom outside
A professor’s donation goes towards an open-air classroom meant to encourage dialogue without distraction.
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Job readiness is learned both inside the classroom and out
Part-time and summer jobs can be valuable sources of experiential learning and critical thinking for students.
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What role should faculty play in supporting student mental health?
In all the strategizing, expanding and refining of services on offer to students who struggle with anxiety, depression or any number of other serious mental illnesses, faculty are asking, where do we fit?
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Social entrepreneurship gains ground on Canadian campuses
An array of new programs gives students an opportunity to tackle issues of importance to their local communities.
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To teach or to entertain, that is the question
Or, to quote Gord Downie, "I'm not going to do the dancing bear!"
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The economics of math education
We need to refocus and intensify our efforts on math education if Canada is to compete internationally.
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7 teaching tips to consider for your classroom
We asked our readers: what is the one teaching tip, tool or technique you can’t live without?
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I trust that my student’s grandparent died
Students need to reach out for help, and our systems must work to provide solutions.
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Arbitration decision on student evaluations of teaching applauded by faculty
Such evaluations can’t be used for tenure and promotion decisions, arbitrator rules in case involving Ryerson University.
