Student participation is shaped by a variety of factors including personality traits, comfort with English language, cultural norms and customs, life circumstances, neurodivergence, and disability, to name a few.
Course Design
What can you do as an instructor to encourage your students to do honest work?
Course outlines, or syllabi, are an integral part of course design. They generally summarize our course design plans and serve as a “contract” with our students regarding the course described. But how do you create a useful outline?
Learning independently can be challenging, even for the brightest and most motivated students.
Most people strive to be gracious and sensitive when accommodating another person's needs.
Good teaching involves considering the strengths and needs of all learners.
As a provider of educational programs, the University of Waterloo is legally obligated to accommodate students with disabilities, as per the Ontario Human Rights Code
Many instructors in engineering, math and science have students solve “problems”
Metacognition has been defined as “one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them
Independent study experiences can be extremely rewarding both for students and their advising instructors