Just because you’re stuck with their policies doesn’t mean you need to be stuck with their mindset. —Michael Fullan. Finding ways to engage students and adults has not been an easy task during the ...
Lost in today’s nonstop hand-wringing about the endangered species of higher education is the importance of teaching and learning mutually between students and professors across ages and ranks. The ...
Chenkai Chi is a research assistant in Xu and Connelly's SSHRC Partnership Grant Project and has received a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. Shijing Xu has received ...
The focus in the classroom was primarily on delivering content and practicing skills through carefully crafted lessons in the earlier part of my career. More often than not, purposeful application of ...
As seen in the ABC series Old People's Home for Teenagers, intergenerational learning programs can result in mentally stimulating and reciprocal learning experiences for both students and older people ...
Learning isn’t confined to lecture halls, labs and seminar rooms. It also thrives on dialogue, collaboration and shared experiences. In fact, learning is seldom a one-way street. By explaining, we ...
What makes a good elementary teacher, and how can teaching systems support this? Ontario has a generalist teaching model at the elementary level, meaning elementary teachers have a foundational ...