Teaching
Here you will find a variety of resources to support your teaching and professional development.
Naturally, you’ll want to apply the teaching strategies you learned during your studies, which often focused on lecture-based presentations. However, research now suggests more effective approaches to promoting learning that is both solid and sustainable. In this section, you’ll discover interactive strategies that stimulate critical thinking in your courses.
Feel free to explore and innovate!
Course Planning and Design
Classroom Management
What does assessment mean?
For many, assessment means measuring the knowledge or information retained, often through tests. However, this approach is limited to memorization, and concepts are often forgotten after assessment.
In Accompagner la construction des savoirs, Rosée Morissette proposes an “authentic” assessment, where learning is closer to the real-life contexts. A situation is authentic when it:
- Is inspired by real-life situations
- Helps solve a problem
- Is meaningful and motivating for your students
- Takes place in conditions similar to daily life.
In this section, you’ll discover strategies to assess not only knowledge but also the skills and attitudes of your group.
Assessing and Monitoring Learning
Comodal Teaching (HyFlex)
What is comodal teaching?
Comodal teaching, also known as HyFlex teaching, allows students to choose at each class session whether to attend the course face-to-face, remotely in synchronous mode, or remotely in asynchronous mode. This choice may vary from session to session, depending on individual needs.
Training: Course Design and Comodal Teaching Strategies
Learn more about Conception de cours et stratégies d’enseignement comodales, your essential guide to mastering comodal teaching.
Designed specifically for teachers, it guides you step by step through the world of comodal teaching and learning.
Online Articles
The following articles address various aspects of teaching and comodal course design:
- La conception de cours HyFlex : résultats de recherche (S. Lakhal, 2015)
E-books
The following resources cover the principles of comodal teaching and their application to course design:
- Hybrid-Flexible Course Design: Implementing Student-Directed Hybrid Classes (B.J. Beatty, 2019)
- HyFlex Course Design and Teaching Strategies (Barclay et al., 2022)
Accommodated Testing
Here are some resources to support teachers working with students who have access to Collège Boréal’s accommodated testing service.
- Service d’accessibilité : Foire aux questions (PDF)
- Allowing more time for a Brightspace quiz (video) (in French)
- Disabling Respondus Lockdown Browser (video) (in French)
How to print a quiz in Brightspace:
- Video tutorial (in French)
- Written instructions (in French)
- When the Respondus Lockdown Browser is enabled (video) (in French)
For more information on Boréal’s accommodated testing service, please contact: service.epreuves.adaptees@collegeboreal.ca.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
What’s an OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials available in various media, distributed under an open license that allows them to be accessed, used, adapted, reused, and redistributed with little or no restriction.
Source: Qu’est-ce qu’une REL? – Fabrique REL (in French)
Creative Commons (CC) Licenses
Copyright licenses and Creative Commons tools provide a balance to the traditional “all rights reserved” framework created by copyright laws. These tools offer creators, from individuals to large corporations and public institutions, simple, standardized ways to grant additional copyright permissions for their works. This combination of tools and users constitutes a vast and expanding digital commons – a shared space where content can be copied, distributed, modified, remixed, and adapted, while respecting copyright laws.
Source: Creative Commons: Licenses List
OER Research
Open Access Books
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
- Presses de l’Université du Québec
- Presses de l’Université Laval (in French)
- Presses de l’Université de Montréal (in French)
- BAnQ numérique (in French)
Stock Image Libraries
Ethics and Compliance
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the appropriation of someone else’s text, ideas, works, etc., and presenting them as one’s own. Article 6.26 of the Guide Boréal (in French) outlines the College’s procedures and guidelines concerning copyright, while article 6.27 defines academic dishonesty, including plagiarism and cheating, along with applicable penalties.
Intellectual Property
Respect for intellectual property is essential. The Copyright Act allows educators to use resources in their teaching, as long as they comply with the Fair Dealing Guidelines.
Citing sources to avoid plagiarism is mandatory, whether for text, images, tables, or ideas. See section 4 of the Guide de présentation d’un travail écrit (guide to presenting written work, in French) to learn how to properly format your references.
The Internet is simply another medium: online publications are protected in the same way as print publications. Always credit the author, regardless of the purpose.
The Copyright Matters and the Fair Dealing Decision Tool from the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, can assist you in adhering to these rules in the classroom.
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