Category: Pedagogy
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Calibrated Peer Review Part IV
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part III and Part V For this posting, I would like to offer some of the student responses to the CPR process…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part III
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part II, Part IV and Part V I thought I would start this posting by describing the Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)…
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How Students Influence Your Teaching Style
by Doris Carey, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation Much of the literature on teaching and learning styles came from pop culture magazine surveys that concluded that you had a visual style of you liked to look at pictures, an auditory learning style if you liked to chat on the phone, and…
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The Presentation Problem
by Anna Atkinson, Teaching Faculty Member, English Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, VIU Some years ago, the English Department undertook an exit survey of its graduating students. In that survey, one of the things that surfaced struck my colleagues and me as both surprising, and, upon reflection, perhaps a bit obvious. The problem had…
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The Tension between “What” and “How” in Teaching
by Bryan Webber, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Management, VIU I have come to believe that living in the ongoing tension between the “what” and the “how” is of critical importance to me as an educator. I always need to accompany anything I wish students to learn with the question of how such learning can…
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What to say about teaching and learning?
by Rob Ferguson, Teaching Faculty Member and Co-Chair, Department of Recreation and Tourism Management, Faculty of Management, VIU What to say about teaching and learning? For me, linking these two terms with ‘and’ has always seemed somewhat problematic. The English language seems to fall short here in capturing the essence of teaching and learning by…
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Cell Phone Obsession—Are Students Paying Attention Anymore?
by Andrea Noble, Online Course Support Assistant, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL), VIU “To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones. For many of us, going to concerts, lectures, the movies, or social activities provided time to be…
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Skeletons as Learning Tools
by Wendy Simms, Technician, Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU Every two years, the VIU Biology Department offers a course called Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Biology 358). Part of the laboratory component of this course requires students to rearticulate an animal skeleton. It is an extremely popular project not only because it involves drills and…
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Motivating Students: Resources for Faculty to Engage Learners
One of the most frequent questions I get in my role working with faculty is on the topic of motivation. How to motivate the ‘unmotivated’ student? How to engage students when all existing strategies have failed to engage? How to get students to be involved in their own learning? Here are a collection of articles,…
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Book Review: The Courage to Teach
I have just read The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer, an incredibly powerful text reflecting on the essential role of the teacher. The book calls for inward reflection on behalf of teachers to examine their own motives and intent when approaching their practice. Early in the text Parker notes; “Teachers possess the power…