This page offers resources on inclusive pedagogy, culturally responsive teaching, academic integrity, AI in education, universal design for learning, and assessment strategies to support effective teaching at StFX.
Culturally Relevant Pedagogies
- Suggestions and Help on Land Acknowledgments of the unceded Mi’kma’ki territories
- Book suggestions for Decolonization Indigenous Peoples
- Etuaptmumk - Two Eyed Seeing. Ways to work with Two Eyed Seeing in the classroom
- Asset Based Community Development
- An extensive list of resources that address, Decolonization and Indigenization, Two Eyed Seeing, Support for Diversity and Minority Students, Health & Counselling
- Inclusive Classroom Checklist - Easy, Medium & Hard suggestions made related to Indigenization, decolonization, and cultural diversity, as well as potential accommodations for students with diverse abilities and learning styles.
- How Open Education Enables Culturally Responsive Teaching (Faculty Focus)
- Using Inclusive Teaching Strategies to Promote Greater Success Among Minority Students (Faculty Focus)
Resources mentioned/discussed at the Spring Teaching Retreat May 2021
- High School Supplementary Resource Material for Treaty Education
- Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Treaty Education Framework for Curriculum Development
- Suggestions/Resources/Contact for your continued "unlearning and relearning." Teaching Retreat May 2021
- PowerPoint Slides from Searching for Indigenous Knowledge at Angus L. Macdonald Library May 2021
- Maple League Hosts: Truth, Reconciliation and Decolonizing Higher Education
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- Strategies for Antiracist and Decolonized Teaching
Desire Based Scholarship
- Patterson, A. (2009). Everyday ethics and social change: The education of desire. Columbia University Press.
- Renga, I. (2017). Unpacking a Liturgical Framing of Desire for the Purposes of Educational Research. American Educational Studies Association, 53(3), 263-284
- Reiss, S. (2002). Who am I? 16 Basic Desires that Motivate our Actions and Define our Personalities. The Berkley Publishing Group
Positive Space Training
Positive Space Training Resources 2020
Teaching and Learning with AI
This page provides faculty with policies, training, and resources on using and responding to generative AI in teaching. It includes assessment strategies, Moodle courses, and curated links to articles, videos, and podcasts.
Universal Design for Learning
Examination & Assessment
- Academic Integrity Pledge
- Test Correction: Information for Faculty and Teaching Staff
- Best Practices for Moodle Quizzes
Additional Resources
- Langara College - Encouraging Academic Integrity Through Intentional Assessment Design Toolkit
Langara College's toolkit was developed as a collaborative project between the Teaching and Curriculum Development Centre, the Centre for Intercultural Engagement, the Academic Integrity Committee, and Student Conduct and Judicial Affairs. This toolkit is meant to provide instructors with methods and examples of activities and assessments that can help students meet academic standards and expectations.
TLC Innovative Classrooms ZoomCast
The TLC at StFX presents the TLC Innovative Classrooms ZoomCast, a series of informal conversations with instructors who are doing interesting things around campus and beyond.
External Resources
- The Maple League Teaching and Learning Centre
- Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative at UBC
- Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning
- Diversity and Inclusion in the Classroom
- The Teaching Professor
- Dalhousie's Centre for Teaching and Learning
- Association of Atlantic Universities
- The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL)
CJSoTL/RCACEA seeks to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions. It therefore provides an avenue for a wide range of educators, including faculty members, administrators, academic librarians, educational developers, learning resource specialists, and graduate students, to discuss ways of enhancing student learning experiences through systematic inquiry into teaching and learning in all disciplines.
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