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Teaching and Learning Annual Report 2024

Our newsletter Teaching Notes is emailed on a monthly basis to Trent faculty and instructors. The newsletters contain helpful tips, resources, and announcements about our events and activities.

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2025

  • Issue 65: Accessible Teaching and Learning: Are We There Yet?
  • Issue 64: Honouring the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
  • Issue 63:  Supporting Transitions for Students (and Ourselves!)
  • Issue 62:  Honouring Indigenous Peoples Day
  • Issue 61:  It's Award Season at the Trent Teaching Commons!
  • Issue 60:  Teaching in Dark Times
  • Issue 59:  Kawartha Teaching and Tech Conference Roundup
  • Issue 58: Learning Together
  • Issue 57: New Year, New Us!

2024

  • Issue 56: Teaching and Learning Jolabokaflod
  • Issue 55: The Meanings of Midterms
  • Issue 54: Reading and Learning
  • Issue 53: Honouring the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (2024)
  • Issue 52 : Playing Around in the Classroom
  • Issue 50: Teaching and Learning from One Another
  • Issue 49: It’s Award Season at Teaching and Learning!
  • Issue 48: Showing Compassion to Ourselves
  • Issue 47: Love and Kindness in the University Classroom
  • Issue 46: A Growth Mindset in Teaching and Learning

2023

  • Issue 45: The 2023 Teaching and Learning Jolabokaflod
  • Issue 44: Revisiting the Lecture
  • Issue 43: What to do when teaching goes wrong
  • Special Issue: Honouring The National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
  • Issue 42: Learning to Live with AI
  • Issue 41: Using OER? Oh, We Are!
  • Issue 40: Indigenized Holistic Instruction
  • Issue 39: Spotlighting Trent's University-Wide Teaching Awards
  • Issue 38: Have You Heard about SoTL?
  • Issue 37: The Kawartha Teaching & Tech Day Roundup
  • Issue 36: Reckoning with Artificial Intelligence
  • Issue 35: Making Teaching More Accessible

2022

  • Issue 34: A Teaching and Learning Jolabokaflod
  • Issue 33: Learning from Learning Outcomes
  • Issue 32: Engagement by Design Part III: The Matter of Deadlines
  • Special Issue: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2022
  • Issue 31: Engagement by Design Part II, Academic Integrity, Online Assessment, and Student Engagement
  • Issue 30: Introducing Engagement by Design
  • Issue 29: National Indigenous People's Day and Land-based Pedagogy
  • Issue 28: These Are a Few of Our Favourite Things
  • Issue 27: It’s the Most Rewarding Time of the Year!
  • Issue 26: Universal Design for Learning
  • Issue 25: Group Work
  • Issue 24: Humanizing Learning

2021

  • Issue 23: The Syllabus Issue
  • Special Issue: The Continuing Issue of Student Engagement and Participation
  • Special Issue: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
  • Issue 22: Mentoring Graduate Teaching Assistants
  • Issue 21: Back to School
  • Issue 20: Hybrid Teaching
  • Issue 19: Land-Based Teaching and Learning
  • Issue 18: Trauma-Informed Teaching
  • Issue 17: Destinations, A Review (Continued, with Day 2)
  • Issue 16: Destinations, A Review
  • Issue 15: Starting a Pedagogical Research Project
  • Issue 14: The Aftertimes (Part II)
  • Issue 13: Planning for the Last Day of Class
  • Issue 12: Indigenization at Trent
  • Issue 11: The Aftertimes
  • Issue 10: Case Studies
  • Issue 9: Engaging Students
  • Issue 8: Teaching about Race and Racism
  • Issue 7: One Thing That Worked: Part II

2020

  • Issue 6: One Thing That Worked: Part I
  • Issue 5: Tips for Grading
  • Issue 4: Academic Integrity in Online Courses
  • Issue 3: Teaching in Tough Times
  • Issue 2: Thinking about assessments
  • Issue 1: Checking in with your students
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