Do you struggle to get your students participating in their learning? Does it feel like pulling teeth to get them to speak up? Perhaps you have the opposite problem: they love to talk but aren’t getting the work done? Or maybe you are living in Groundhog Day, doing the same thing every class and wondering […]

In this session, the focus is on Integrative Assessments (or as we call them at Vanier, LIAs). We will be joined by guest teachers who will discuss sample LIAs in their programs and take us through the scaffolding process to prepare students for these major assessments. We’ll also look at the way we evaluate LIAs, […]

A project-based initiative entitled “An Affectionate Cartography of Rivers” brings together arts, language, and science instructors within an interdisciplinary curriculum. This curriculum is underpinned by the philosophical concepts of the laureate of UNESCO’s Peace Education Prize Paulo Freire, and Ailton Krenak. Freire’s philosophy is central to the project’s methodology, which emphasizes student autonomy in a […]