Description The project includes two components to help students succeed in mathematics courses: the expansion of a mathematics “bridging” program offering incoming students who score low on a math placement quiz the opportunity to participate in a four-day review session in August; and provision of supplemental instruction through peer-assisted study sessions in difficult first year […]
Description The project involves a peer mentoring and orientation program that helps guide incoming student-athletes through their entire first year at York University. The programs purpose is to support freshmen’s transition and promote engagement and academic success; they then bring the skills learned to youth in the Jane-Finch community through schools and community organizations. Project […]
Description This pilot project involves a summer program, led by experts in various fields, to help students make a successful academic and personal transition to university by providing tools and skills to adjust to academic demands of university, develop techniques for effective study, and adapt to a new environment. A peer mentor component introduces students […]
Description Grounded within the ecological model and based on the understanding that the need to serve the whole student is not about promoting and delivering individual programs and services within a silo structure, the healthy campus approach looks at new ways to support our students through the built and psycho-social campus environment. Put simply, a […]
Description The HealthAid Network is a course-based peer mentorship program that aims to encourage student engagement, support academic success within the first year and develop student leadership capacity through peer mentorship. Students are placed into student success teams that consist of upper year students (team leaders) and first year students (team members). These student success […]
Description This proposal involves expansion of concepts developed in Fine Arts summer institutes to engage Canadian and international students and potential students, professionals and aspiring professionals, artists and intellectuals, and Fine Arts faculty in an inter-/multi-disciplinary on-campus “laboratory”. The modular structure includes courses and workshops, public lectures and performances in an interactive environment. Project Lead(s) […]
Description Structured as a proactive transitional support for mature students, the First Year Experience program will support the academic and personal success of mature students in the critical first few months of university study, and to contribute to improved retention of this at-risk population at the University. This project proposal is intended to serve as […]
Description Building on research into student-faculty partnerships, the Student Consultants on Teaching at York (SCOTAY) program provides instructors an opportunity to reflect on their teaching practice through the eyes of a student via a classroom observation or course design consultation for a course the student is not enrolled in. Pedagogically, such partnerships situate the relationship […]
Description Simulation is a powerful and innovative form of teaching, learning and assessment. The benefits include situated learning, active learning, the blending of professional and academic cognition and practices, and the creation of more authentic learning tasks. However, attempts to develop a body of widely shareable and re-purposable educational content amongst simulation designers and users […]
Description Augmented Reality (AR) technology expands the physical world by adding digital information layers onto what we can see with the naked eye. The virtual layers (topography, geology, hydrogeology, and other Earth-related-elements) help students engage with the visualization of 3D problems, something that traditional 2D class material does not readily afford. AR is beginning developed […]