Pedagogical Days

张百乔女友裸照 hosts Ped Days, providing the opportunity to learn from others and share teaching expertise. The events feature a rich variety of workshops, presentations and panel discussions on teaching and learning, built around Dawson community interests and suggestions.

Ped Day 2024

October 11, 2024

Eliana El Khoury

Assessment is on everyone鈥檚 mind, from teacher to student and all that serve to support the mission of student learning. Join Eliana El Khoury for a workshop on enhancing student assessments to better focus on learning and support.Dr. Eliana El Khoury is a recognized leader in the field of alternative assessment, whose work is dedicated to enhancing educational practices through more thoughtful and supportive assessment strategies.

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Ped Day 2023

Transition and Resilience building in emerging adulthoodErin Barker, Ph.D.Associate Professor, PsychologyConcordia University

Ped Day 2022

October 15, 2021Teaching in Turbulent Times (and We鈥檙e Not Just Talking about COVID-19)ped-day-2021-saul-carliner鈥2013鈥損ortrait-editedSaul CarlinerEven without considering COVID, experts predicted disruption in higher education over the next decade or so resulting from a combination of trends in demographics, technology, and society. When COVID hit, it unearthed some additional considerations. This session first explores these disruptions, then suggests ten specific ways these disruptions might affect the day-to-day work of C茅gep instructors, including the impacts on the student body and their expectations, the nature of courses being taught, and the nature of teaching.

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Ped Day 2021

October 14, 2022

Roger Azevedo

Self-Regulated Learning with Learning Technologies: Challenges and OpportunitiesRoger Azevedo, Ph.D.University of Central FloridaSchool of Modeling Simulation and Training

Ped Days 2020

October 13-16, 2020

Usha James

Seizing opportunities and meeting the challenges of assessment in online, blended and physically distanced environment鈥 Tuesday October 13 1pm 鈥 2:30pm Slides

Michelle Miller

Assessing for Learning: How Testing and Practice Help Students Become Expert Thinkers鈥 Friday October 16 11am-12:30pm 

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Ped Days 2019

January 13 and January 14 2020

Usha James

UshaUsha James is Executive Director at The Critical Thinking Consortium where she also contributes as a resource writer, speaker and facilitator. She has seen how an understanding of critical thinking can deepen teacher understanding and practice of assessment, instruction, curriculum design, literacy, numeracy and differentiation.Usha has worked as a secondary teacher, and as an instructor in the Initial Teacher Education Program and Director of the Secondary Program at OISE at the University of Toronto.Slides to Dr聽James’ KeynoteSlides to workshop聽“Blended teaching”Slides to workshop “Strategies to Engage Students”Slides to workshop “Active Learning聽脌 la Carte聽in a low tech environment”

Ped Day 2018

Friday, October 12

George Elliot Clarke

Teaching with passion and performance

A prolific artist in poetry, song, drama, fiction, screenplay, and essays,聽George Elliott Clarke is also a pioneering scholar of African-Canadian literature. Dr. Clarke, a professor of English at the University of Toronto, has held the prestigious role of Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate.

Dr. Clarke is racialized 鈥淏lack鈥, and identifies as a proud Afro-M茅tis Africadian, reflected in his writing on social justice and Canadian identity.

Ped Day 2017

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Ped Days Past

Allan Sears (University of New Brunswick) was the keynote speaker in 2016.


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