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Thursday, February 9, 2017
Class attendance is “well-known” to be highly correlated with student success. If this is true, then why don’t our students always come to class? And, more to the point, how can we encourage our students to come to class more often? On Feb. 17, join Professor Simon Power (Department of Economics) for the second... More
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
On Jan. 27, join us at the EDC for the first Welcome to My Classroom session of the year as Merridee Bujaki (Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business and Director, Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work) shares some of her hard-won insights on how to be a more productive academic writer.... More
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
In an undergraduate science lab, teaching assistants are the direct point of contact for learning support for students, and as such they can have an immediate and significant impact on the student learning experience. If you could build the ideal science laboratory TA, what qualities and skills would they have? How and where could... More
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
In spite of spending time and energy crafting the perfect course outline, it can seem as though the majority of students never bother to read them. But is it really written for them? On November 25, join your colleagues as part of the Welcome to My Classroom series for a discussion on how to... More
Friday, September 16, 2016
Students in FASS and FPA are evaluated on their writing, but very few of them arrive at Carleton knowing how to write a basic essay. At best they turn in five-paragraph essays and at worst their efforts are incoherent. To remedy this situation, Prof. Gregory MacIsaac has designed HUMS 1200 – Humanities and Classical... More
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Are there parts of your teaching that are less organized and efficient than you’d like? Do you have systems for dealing with student emails, monitoring deadlines and extensions, or recording all the great ideas you want to implement next year? Join Prof. Jim Davies and Teaching and Learning Services for the first Welcome to... More
Friday, October 16, 2015
Each discipline has a set of concepts that are notoriously troublesome for student to learn, not for lack of trying, but for the fundamental shift in perspective that they both enable and require. Threshold concepts have been described as “portals” or “conceptual gateways” that “open up previously inaccessible ways of thinking” (Meyer... More
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