Thursday, May 4, 2017

Carleton’s Outstanding TA Award recipients honoured at luncheon

On April 20, 2017, the recipients of the Outstanding TA Awards for 2016-17 were honoured at an awards luncheon at Baker's. In attendance were the award recipients: Justin Berquist (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), Matthew Conte (Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies), Melissa Conte (Department of Sociology... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Blog: Supporting Students with ADHD and Performance Anxiety

By: Lucas Jerusalimiec As teaching assistants (TAs), many of us have experience in assisting students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). These students are often highly engaged in tutorials and demonstrate intelligence during class discussions. Those who are in the upper years of their undergraduate degrees are most likely aware... More

Friday, March 31, 2017

Announcing the EDC’s 2017-2018 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Recipients and Honourable Mentions

The EDC is pleased to announce the five outstanding Teaching Assistants (TAs) who have been named recipients of the 2017-2018 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The awards celebrate the support TAs give to the undergraduate programs in their disciplines, their roles in establishing a positive learning environment, and their work in... More

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Celebrating Carleton’s outstanding TAs

Congratulations to all of the Teaching Assistants (TAs) who were nominated for the EDC’s Outstanding TA Awards and many departmental TA awards. We received approximately 300 nominations for almost 140 unique nominees this year, highlighting the amazing accomplishments of Carleton’s TAs. The awards celebrate the TAs’ dedication to... More

Monday, March 20, 2017

Celebrating Carleton’s Outstanding TAs

Congratulations to all of the Teaching Assistants (TAs) who were nominated for the EDC’s Outstanding TA Awards and many departmental TA awards. We received approximately 300 nominations for almost 140 unique nominees this year, highlighting the amazing accomplishments of Carleton’s TAs. The awards celebrate the TAs’ dedication to... More

Monday, March 6, 2017

Blog: “Hey, you guys!”: Avoiding non-inclusive, gendered language in the classroom

By: Anita Grace As I wrapped up a TA workshop on participatory classroom activities, I was feeling positive about the energy in the classroom and the engagement from all the participants. Everything seemed to have gone so well. But when I reviewed the index cards that I had used to gather feedback, two responses... More

Friday, February 10, 2017

Blog: Learning at Play: Integrating Live Action Role-Playing into the Classroom

By: Noah Schwartz Children learn through play. As we grow into adulthood and are socialized through the school system, however, play becomes a smaller and smaller part of our educational training regime. In recent years, scholarship has continued to demonstrate that traditional styles of teaching, which emphasize lecturing and see students as... More

Thursday, January 26, 2017

EDC Wraps Up Another Successful TA Training Day!

The EDC’s Winter 2017 TA Training Day event on January 21 saw approximately 300 TAs take part in 10 unique training sessions aimed at their personal and professional development. We were especially privileged to hear keynote addresses from award-winning faculty members Dr. David Dean (Department of History) and Dr. Michael Hildebrand... More

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Blog: The Choice is Theirs: Offering Students Choice as an Inclusive Teaching Practice

By: Jeff Carette Inclusive education refers to a method of teaching that advocates equal opportunity learning for all students, regardless of background or learning disabilities. Through the application of inclusive practices, we can avoid the kind of “ability labeling” that has been shown to stifle a learner’s capacity to achieve... More

Friday, December 23, 2016

Winter 2017 TA Training Offerings

The EDC's TA Training offerings for the Winter 2017 term are now fully viewable and open for registration! Our new Events page provides a complete overview of all our workshops and sessions, but you can view the list of regular workshops here (all in 422 DT) and the full program for our TA Training Day... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Blog: Nurturing an Environment for Engagement: Inclusive Teaching Practice and its Challenges for Teaching Assistants

By: Megan Graham “If a child can't learn the way we teach, perhaps we should teach the way they learn.” - Ignacio Estrada “Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn.” - Ben Franklin Inclusive teaching practices are vital at every level of education. The above quotations speak... More

Friday, November 11, 2016

Become a TA for the EDC!

The EDC is looking to hire a Teaching Assistant (130 hours) in a service role for the Winter 2017 term. The position will involve providing support for the EDC’s TA-related initiatives, including TA Training and the TA Mentor Program. The candidate will help the EDC to fulfill its obligation to track attendance hours for... More

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Blog: Reassessing Assessment

By: Melissa Pullara After years of being students ourselves, many Teaching Assistants (TAs) have likely become well-acquainted with the fact that not all students learn the same way. Many of us, too, have likely been subject to various forms of categorization: my grade ten Careers class, for instance, required us to take an aptitude... More

Friday, October 28, 2016

Registration now open for our Preparing to Teach certificate program

Registration for the Winter 2017 cohort of our Preparing to Teach (PTT) certificate program is now open! PTT is a blended program specifically designed to help PhD candidates prepare for the teaching components of a career in academia. This 10-week program, which consists of weekly 2-3 hour meetings plus a significant weekly online component,... More

Monday, October 3, 2016

EDC wraps up its most successful TA Training Day yet

The EDC’s Fall 2016 TA Training Day on Sept. 17 saw more than 600 TAs take part in 11 unique training sessions aimed at their personal and professional development, which represents the largest number of participants for this event in its history. We were especially privileged to hear keynote addresses from award-winning faculty members... More

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Fall 2016 TA Training Day

The full programme for the EDC's Fall 2016 TA Training Day is now available here, and registration for all sessions is now open on Carleton Central. TA Training Day is on Saturday, September 17th, 10am-4pm, and it consists of two sets of concurrent workshops (eight in total), two keynote addresses from award-winning faculty members,... More

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Try Our New Online Workshop, “An Introduction to cuLearn”!

Just in time for the Fall 2016 term, the EDC has launched a new, fully online workshop entitled "An Introduction to cuLearn."  While every TA assignment is unique, most TAs at Carleton University are required to have some interaction with cuLearn, whether in the form of emailing students, sending out announcements, overseeing student discussions,... More

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Fall 2016 TA Workshop Schedule Now Available!

The EDC's Fall 2016 schedule for TA Training workshops is now available, and registration for all sessions is also open on Carleton Central. The final programme for the EDC's Fall TA Training Day (Saturday, September 17th, 10am-4pm, 2nd floor Tory Building) will be available shortly, and registration via Carleton Central for all TA Training... More

Friday, July 29, 2016

Registration for “Preparing to Teach” is Now Open!

Registration for the Fall 2016 cohort of our certificate program "Preparing to Teach" is now open! To access the program description and the registration form, please click here. The number of seats for the program is limited, so register... More

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Blog: Metacognition in the Classroom: Engaging the Mind, Engaging the Student

By: Naba Ahsan It’s common to see instructors at the front of the lecture hall, repeatedly asking students to limit laptop usage to note taking (instead of Facebook) or disallowing cell phone usage—I’ve even come across a syllabus or two explicitly asking students to reserve sleeping for outside the classroom. Apparently, the word... More

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Carleton’s Outstanding TA Award recipients honoured at luncheon

Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte (President and Vice-Chancellor), Dr. Peter Ricketts (Provost and Vice-President [Academic]), Dr. Joy Mighty (Associate Vice-President [Teaching and Learning]), and other members of Teaching and Learning Services celebrated the 2015-16 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award recipients at a private luncheon at Baker’s... More

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Announcing the EDC’s 2015-2016 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Recipients and Honourable Mentions

The EDC is pleased to announce the five outstanding Teaching Assistants (TAs) who have been named recipients of the 2015-2016 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. The awards celebrate the support TAs give to the undergraduate programs in their disciplines, their roles in establishing a positive learning environment, and their work in... More

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Blog: Teaching Narratives of the Sea in the Classroom: Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy and the Shipwreck

By: Michelle K. Barron Preparing lessons on shipwreck excavations and underwater cultural heritage discoveries can be a daunting task, primarily because of the numerous intersections of disciplines. Each area of study—be it maritime archaeology, oceanic anthropology, diasporic and migration literature, international law of the sea, or heritage... More

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Blog: Learning to Read Before You Can Discuss: Critical Reading in First-Year and Peer-Led Tutorials

By: Victoria Bisnauth Critical reading and thinking are skills that students applying to university, especially to programs in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public affairs, are often told they will develop over the course of their post-secondary education and that are easily transferable and highly regarded in the job market. While... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Blog: Using Google Hangout and Skype to Promote Online Learning

By: Robyn Pepin More and more students are obtaining post-secondary education using different online platforms (Harish, 2013). In addition to Moodle and Big Blue Button platforms already used on some university campuses, learning can also be facilitated by instructors and teaching assistants through platforms such as Google Hangout and Skype.... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Celebrating Carleton’s outstanding TAs

Congratulations to the 195 teaching assistants who were nominated for the EDC’s Outstanding TA Awards and many departmental TA awards. We received more than 400 nominations for almost 200 unique nominees this year, highlighting the amazing accomplishments of Carleton’s TAs. The awards celebrate the teaching assistants’ dedication to... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

Blog: Improving Oral Communication

By: Claire Reynolds Oral communication is an essential part of our daily lives. It is a skill many university programs draw attention to and assess because it is an integral part of the workplace and interview process. For example, George Evans, the former chief financial officer of R&P Coal, asks interviewees about the English... More

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Blog: Engaging Students through Daily Progress Tracking

By: Tamer Beitelmal While it advances quickly, technologies can and should be used by educators to improve the learning process, especially as new generations of students are using internet, social-media, computers, and smartphones in their daily lives. In this article, I explain how the practice of daily progress tracking can be a powerful tool... More

Friday, February 26, 2016

Blog: Peer Teaching as an Innovative Tool to Foster Student Learning and Engagement

By: Amy Silver Despite being a straight A student, my understanding of calculus did not reach a deeper level until I became a peer mentor for first-year science students – despite the fact that calculus was a course I had received an A+ in with relative ease the year before. By explaining the concepts... More

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Blog: Implementing Critical Pedagogy through Aesthetic Praxis

By: Sasha Hanson Pastran Traditional, explanative teaching models are often criticized for suppressing learners’ natural intellectual curiosity and their potential for co-creating knowledge (Lewis, 2012, p.28). This article will examine the challenges and possibilities of implementing a critical pedagogy that breaks away from the traditional... More

Friday, February 5, 2016

EDC wraps up another successful TA Training Day!

The EDC’s Winter 2016 TA Training Day event on January 23 saw more than 300 TAs take part in 10 unique training sessions aimed at their personal and professional development. We were especially privileged to hear keynote addresses from award-winning faculty members Peggy Hartwick (School Linguistics and Language Studies) and Maria DeRosa... More

Friday, February 5, 2016

Blog: Innovative Practices in the Classroom

By: Keltie Pratt As teaching assistants (TAs), we often have to adapt to new styles and methods of teaching. As we are not the primary instructor of the course, we often have little say in the development and methodology of the course(s) we are assigned. We are, however, an integral part of the education... More

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Blog: “Flip it, Flip it Good”: Benefits of Approaching the Classroom from a New Perspective

By: Mary Ritchie Since first being introduced in the early 2000s (e.g., Lage, Platt, & Treglia, 2000), the concept of the flipped classroom has taken on a variety of forms. While there has yet to be a single established definition or model (Tucker, 2012), the flipped classroom can be understood as a method of... More

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Blog: Focused Distraction: Utilising Smartphones to Promote Active Learning in the Classroom

By: Stephanie Biro While distractions within the classroom are not a new problem, the forms of distractions have significantly changed over recent years, shifting from doodling or daydreaming to text messaging or browsing the Internet. The use of smartphones has significantly increased over the last few years, with 86% of undergraduate students in... More

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Blog: The Innovation of Technology in the Classroom: Friend or Foe?

By: Lindsay Morgan Over the past few years, with the explosion of technology and social media, teaching has become somewhat of an arms race for students’ attention. Teaching style and information presented must now be more compelling than ever; that is, the person at the front of the room needs to be more captivating... More

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