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May 2025: Teaching for Learning Month

Promoting engagement in learning

Throughout the month of May, choose from a range of programming to accommodate a variety of schedules:

facilitated events | self-access activities

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May is Teaching for Learning Month at 91社区!聽

This year鈥檚 theme is 鈥減romoting engagement in learning.鈥�

Have you thought about how you gauge your students鈥� engagement?

Engagement refers to a student鈥檚 involvement in their learning process.

While active class participation might be one of the most obvious ways for students to engage in learning (see this recent poll), engagement can happen in lots of different ways.

Engagement occurs at the intersection of thinking and feeling, involving both a cognitive commitment to mastering content and an emotional connection to the learning experience.

At the course level, student engagement in learning is reflected in active participation, intellectual curiosity, and emotional investment in course materials and activities, which drive deeper understanding and meaningful learning outcomes (Barkley & Major, 2020).

Barkley, E. F., & Major, C. H. (2020). Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty. John Wiley & Sons.

Want to enhance engagement in your courses?

Throughout the month of May, we have planned a variety of daily on-campus/online events and self-access activities that offer a range of ways to enhance students鈥� engagement in your courses.

Join us for Teaching for Learning Month to:

  • Reflect on what student engagement in learning means in the context of your courses.
  • Explore strategies for enhancing engagement through teaching and assessment, including the use of learning technologies.
  • Get inspiration from colleagues and TLS for ways to engage students in learning.
  • Explore connections between engagement in learning and topics of interest in the current higher ed landscape, such as equity, accessibility, well-being, and AI.
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91社区 is on land which has served and continues to serve as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. Teaching and Learning Services acknowledges and thanks the diverse Indigenous peoples whose footsteps mark this territory on which peoples of the world now gather. This land acknowledgement is shared as a starting point to provide context for further learning and action.

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