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Carolyn Samuel

Associate Director, Teaching Success, and Senior Academic Associate, at McGill’s Teaching and Academic Programs

(Photo credit: Owen Egan)

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  Building academic community through sand and scholarship
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  Sustainable course design strategies: From theory to practice
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  Preparing for Winter 2024: Seven strategies for success
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  Terrific teaching tales
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  Seven+ inclusive teaching strategies to support student learning
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  What do you do when you’re in the classroom and things go awry in a way you weren’t expecting?
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  Creating a Brighter Future: Sustainability at McGill
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  Inuit voices on teaching Inuit health 
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  Do students see the value of class participation? Results of a pilot project 
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  Giving Students a Sustainable Start: McGill’s Newest Sustainability Officer Encourages Sustainability in All Curricula
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  New Policy Opens the Way for New Approach to Assessment
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  Reflect while your courses are fresh in your mind
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  Getting ready to teach in Winter 2022?
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  Ever thought about the positive impacts of tone in course outlines?
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  Recognizing Excellent Teaching at McGill and Beyond
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  The Large Class Teaching Exchange: A Wealth of Inspiring and Creative Ideas
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  Make It Relevant: Moving Math from Y to Why
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  Promoting Student Success During a Pandemic and Beyond
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  McGill’s Cloud Directive: The all-weather business of protecting students’ privacy and intellectual property
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  Include Course Evaluation Questions that Elicit Specific Feedback
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  A Year Since Lockdown: From Pedagogical Solitude to Community Conversations
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  Should Individual Instructors Be Recognized for Going “Above and Beyond” during a Pandemic?
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  Teaching for Learning Blog: Reader Survey
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  Oh, the Places You’ll Go … with Virtual Story Maps
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  When Pandemic Teaching Goes Well
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  Earth and Planetary Sciences Promotes Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
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  A Living Library of Teaching Strategies: Check Out a Video Volume!
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  Mind-calming when facing troubled waters: A strategy to support students’ learning
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  What’s an assignment that really helped you learn?
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  What would happen if you stopped giving participation grades?
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  Covid-19 inspires renewed empathy for our students
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  Recommended readings in pandemic times: TLS staff’s professional and personal “picks”
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  Campus Views from your Window
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  Tips for getting into the habit of working from home
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  Getting Architects and Engineers to Communicate through Course Redesign
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  Learning Management Systems: A tool for supporting sound pedagogy
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  Annotating writing submissions: A strategy to help students be intentional about their writing and share assessment responsibility
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  Writing to develop thinking in the Sciences
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  Beyond grading: Assessment strategies from McGill instructors
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  Peer assessment: Honing skills for giving and receiving back
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  Creative ways to use technology to give student feedback
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  Customize your course evaluations: Writing meaningful questions
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  Do students feel that mind-calming exercises promote deep learning?
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  McGill Principal Prize Recipients Weigh in on Various Facets of Teaching and Learning
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  Interaction in large classes: One instructor’s strategies
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  Getting ready for the beginning of the semester? Check out these resources!
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  Where do you stand on learning styles?
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  Peer assessment as a sustainable feedback practice
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  Doing research to inform teaching strategies and assessment practices
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  Looking for simple teaching strategies to improve student learning? Access a TLS webinar series on video
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  I came upon a student in distress
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  Building community among science instructors
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  Assessing teaching effectiveness: More than student evaluations
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  Beyond grading: Ever heard of “assessment for learning”? Let me explain …
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  Customize your course evaluations: Writing meaningful questions
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  Student emails: a creative video guide to email etiquette MAINTENANT EN FRANÇAIS!
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  How many office hours should I schedule?
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  Strategy Bites: myCourses/Course outline scavenger hunt
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  Strategy Bites: A new blog series with ideas for getting students active in their learning
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  Highs and lows of course evaluations
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  Getting students to distinguish fact from fallacy in the media
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  My love affair with the document camera
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  ‘Tis the season: Reviewing multiple choice question exam results at the end of term
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  Which moments in Canadian history do undergrads believe matter?
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  eLATE Teaching Week: Professors open classrooms for peer observation
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  Student emails: A creative video guide to email etiquette
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  Webinar: Simple strategies to improve student learning
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  Helping students communicate science – beyond the classroom!
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  How do I get students to engage with course readings?
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  Getting students to attend to important course information: First day myCourses “Scavenger Hunt”
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  New peer assessment website launched by Teaching and Learning Services
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  Thank a Prof now available
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  Taking audiences’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds into consideration when communicating at mcgill
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  Informal talking teaching communities: Spread the word!
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  What’s the prof gonna ask?
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  Daring to try new teaching strategies in your course
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  Peer review with 500 students
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  Handwritten notes vs. laptop notes: Does one method afford deeper learning than the other?
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  Click record: Hi, [name]. I’ve just finished reading your paper and I’d like to give you some feedback …