Racial micro-aggressions are just as likely to occur outside the classroom as they are to occur inside the classroom.  In line with the university’s commitment to anti-racism and inclusion, this session aims to explore what micro-aggressions are, and how they operate in the classroom.  Participants will co-develop strategies to effectively respond to racial micro-aggressions to facilitate inclusive and safer learning environments for all students.

Session Description:

This workshop series invites Queen’s teaching community to explore and develop their teaching practices through a variety of topics. Providing the building blocks for inclusive and effective teaching, these workshops include theoretical grounding and practical strategies. 

An online teaching and learning environment may be challenging to many students at Queen’s, particularly to the ones who come from diverse cultural, educational, and linguistic backgrounds. In this workshop, participants will work together to explore the unique challenges faced by international students in an online course and identify teaching strategies that help the students overcome the anticipated challenges.

Series Description:

Queen’s University is becoming more culturally diverse with the continuous internationalization of the student population on campus. As culture and education are intrinsically intertwined, responding to a culturally diverse student population requires educators to become cognizant of the different approaches to knowledge students bring to class together with their unique learning challenges. This workshop series is designed to help educators explore teaching strategies that effectively respond to students’ cultural references in both face-to-face and online settings. In the workshops, participants will reflect on own teaching experience and work together to identify strategies they would like to incorporate to enhance an inclusive and supportive learning environment for all students.

onQ Awards are a great way to give students instant feedback and to reward them for the work they do in your week/module/course. The tool lets you set up and issue badges and certificates. Any Award you create can either be released manually by yourself, or alternatively, you can attach release conditions to the Award to help issue it automatically once the student has fulfilled the release condition. 

Find out how to use onQ Release Conditions to create a custom learning path through your course.  When you attach a release condition to an item, your students won’t be able to view or access that item until they meet the associated condition. Release Conditions can restrict who can access course materials, complete activities, or view a grade item based upon customized criteria. Release conditions are available within several onQ tools.