Teaching
Here you will find a variety of resources to support your teaching and professional development.
- Trauma-informed teaching (French only)
- Guide : Design Your Weekly Lesson Plans with BOPPPS (French only)
- Supporting success following a late arrival (French only)
- Backward Design for Lesson Planning (French only)
- Example of a task (French only)
- Example of tasks (French only)
- Examples of starter activities (French only)
- Examples of assessment tools (French only)
- Template: Class Expectations (French only)
- Example of a BOPPPS Activity: Massage Therapy (French only)
- Template: Lesson Plan Using the BOPPPS Model (French only)
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!
- Critical thinking: De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats method (French only)
- Teamwork (French only)
- Discussion: Fishbowl technique (French only)
- Dynamiser l’enseignement (French only)
- Collaborative Flash Cards (French only)
Teaching Methods
Course Planning and Design
- Annotated course outline (French only)
- Example of a course plan (French only)
- Example of a lesson plan (French only)
- Planning a lesson (French only)
Classroom Management
- Managing your class (French only)
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
- Feedback (French only)
- Formative evaluation (French only)
- Summative evaluation (French only)
- Cheat sheets (French only)
- Triangulation in Assessment (French only)
- Évaluation des apprentissages (French only): This training invites you to discover the foundations of learning assessment and explore assessment practices that are coherent, inclusive, and focused on learning. Developed by eCampusOntario with funding from the Government of Ontario through the Virtual Learning Strategy, Assessment Foundations was adapted into French by Collège Boréal based on open resources from the College Educator Development Program. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Accommodated Testing
Here are some resources to support teachers working with students who have access to Collège Boréal’s accommodated testing service.
- Accommodated Testing – Allowing more time for a Brightspace quiz (video) (in French)
- Accommodated Testing – Disabling Respondus Lockdown Browser (video) (in French)
- Printing a quiz in Brightspace (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
Open Access Books
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.