This section outlines some essential components to effectively teaching your course.
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Inviting Student Support Areas to Class
- NIC offers a variety of student support services, including financial aid, advising, writing, math or research support, career services, connections with Indigenous Elders and more, to students at no charge.
- In addition to sharing this information via your Brightspace course (via the Student Supports Module you need to add) or in your outlines, you can also invite people from these areas to speak with your students.
- Faculty Supports to assist with Library & Learning Commons resources and services such as resource access, copyright, library purchase, etc. can be accessed from the NIC Library website. Library staff are also available either in-person or via Kaltura Virtual Classroom for in-class instruction or if an instructor would like to book a library orientation for their students.
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Supporting Students Experiencing Challenges
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Meeting Drop Deadlines and Course Expectations
- In a post-secondary education setting there are numerous dates to remember, especially those that pertain to student outcomes.
- Registration timelines, if not met, may hold implications for a student continuing in a program.
- Similarly, if a student wishes to withdraw from a course, the drop date is also important to avoid academic penalty.
- Resource: NIC Policy 4-09 Registration
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Giving Students Feedback
- Feedback is so important to learning.
- Providing good quality information to learners deepens their understanding of course material by helping them to pinpoint their strengths and areas for improvement.
- It provides specific insights into their performance and can enhance academic skills.
- Resource: Teach Anywhere Page – Delivering and Receiving Feedback
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Getting Informal Feedback During the Course
- You can make your teaching more effective and responsive to students’ needs by soliciting informal feedback from them.
- Consider getting mid-point feedback to help students currently enrolled and end-of-term feedback to help you to reflect on your teaching for next time.
- Resource: Teach Anywhere Course Feedback Surveys
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Reflecting on the Course
- Reflective practice in post-secondary education refers to an ongoing cyclical process where educators critically scrutinize their teaching practice.
- This process involves thought, time, and a desire to enhance quality student learning.
- Reflection is a process that helps us to make meaning of a situation or event and supports instructors to grow and deepen their understanding of themselves and their teaching approaches.
- There are numerous ways to support you as you begin/continue the process of reflection.
- Resource: Teach Anywhere Page – Reflective Practice
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