Month: October 2013
Dear Graduate Students,
*Stay safe on campus. Look out for one another.*
We would love to see you in the coming days. Make our plans your plans – we kinda made them hoping you would. 
Today:
– Make plans/learn strategies to help you explore Vancouver @ 2pm
– Have coffee at the GSS @ 3pm
On Thursday, October 31st (copy paste to diary)
– Play Whodunit at GSS @ 6pm
– then Halloween Bowling @ 8pm (sign up)
On Friday, November 1st (copy paste to diary)
– Bring your kids (and/or friends) to the GSS Pumpkin Carving Event @ 5pm
– Go to GSS Halloween Party 2013! @ 7pm (Buy your ticket!)
– Also, Apply to be The GSS Council Speaker.
– Last chance to sign up for the GSS Art Class!
– Need some Personal Development? There are a few Grad School & Career Success Workshops coming up:
1. Build Effective Supervisor Relataionships
2. Work Effectively Across Cultures at a Canadian University
3. Master LinkedIn for your Career
– WAIT: ‘Like’ this video NOW to vote for UBC’s own Serbulent Turan’s bid to win the People’s Choice award at the U21 3MT Global competition. Pay it Forward.
Ngwatilo
An important note about the CGS Master’s application portal.
Please note that an important difference between the Tri-Councils’ newly harmonized CGS Master’s applications and the other CGS/Vanier applications that are already online is that there is nobody, at UBC, SSHRC, NSERC, or CIHR, who can or will release an application back to a student once it has been submitted. Please consider very carefully before you submit your applications to the portal, and to solicit feedback early on.
Please let your students know that the application and reference form for the Master’s Affiliated competition are now available on the Graduate Awards website.
Affiliated Scholarships link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships
Application link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/affiliated-fellowships-application-form-applicants-masters-level-funding
Reference form link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/affiliated-fellowships-reference-form-applicants-masters-level-funding
Registration is now open for:
Getting the Word Out: Writing your research for the public sphere
Monday, October 28th, 2013, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
For a complete session description, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10621-gps-workshop-getting-word-out-writing-your-research-public-sphere
To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2cb2
Building Effective Supervisory Relationships
Wednesday, October 30th, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10547-gps-workshop-building-effective-supervisory-relationships
To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2cb3
Working Effectively Across Cultures as a Grad Student in a Canadian University
Thursday, October 31st, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10637-gpsisd-workshop-working-effectively-across-cultures-grad-student-canadian
To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2cb4
For upcoming GPS workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events
For CTLT, Library and Career Services workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/ubc-graduate-student-events .
Please be advised that some graduate students are being emailed by ubc.systems@ubc.ca to say that course registrations, from 2008 primarily, have been cancelled. This is due to a system error and not due to any compromise of the SISC; no registrations have been cancelled.
TerreWEB is pleased to be working with CTLT on a workshop titled “Sociopolitical Aspects of Communicating Science.”
This workshop will take place October 31st, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, in MCML 350.
Registration is required (but free).
Registration and event description can be found here.
Note: If you register now, you will be put on a waitlist until Friday. This is to ensure that our TW scholars have first priority.
This is, of course, a very broad topic, and this workshop is intended to get the juices flowing and explore a few different subtopics that have the potential to lead to future, more specific workshops.
The influence of Roger Simon’s calling as a teacher extends in incalculable directions. For decades, his teaching at the University of Toronto questioned status quo practices found in activism, schools, museums, media, and other sites of public memory. Simon’s influence is as subtle in these multiple directions as it is profound in specific sites where his colleagues and former students now work.
In a special Canadian Social Studies issue we seek to honour Roger and his work with the focused attention, theoretical risk and radical possibility he practiced and encouraged. We do so by inviting contributions from those whose work takes up, extends, or is imbued with Roger’s influence as a teacher and as a scholar.
Submission deadline is January 5, 2014.
Click here for more details:
http://thenhier.ca/en/content/r-i-simon-pedagogy-public-possibility
For more information, please contact the editor Kent den Heyer at kdenheye@ualberta.ca.
OGPR is pleased to announce the call for applications for a number of UBC endowed scholarships and prizes available to our Faculty of Education graduate students who are making the most outstanding contributions in their fields of study. These awards are for take-up in December 2013. The awards included in this call are:
THE DEAN OF EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP
THE JIMMAR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN EDUCATION
THE JOHN FRANCIS LIDSTONE SCHOLARSHIP
THE MARY ELIZABETH SIMPSON SCHOLARSHIP
THE JOSEPH KATZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
THE LOMCIRA HAROLD COVELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
THE DONALD AND ELLEN POULTER SCHOLARSHIP
Graduate students should discuss whether they meet the criteria for these awards with their Supervisor or Graduate Advisor prior to application.
The deadline for application packages to OGPR is 4:00pm, Monday, October 28, 2013.
Please note: it is the responsibility of the student to ensure that the cover page is completed in full, with acknowledgement and signature from referee or supervisor(s) and department head’s signature before you submit to OGPR.
Also note that past awardees were successful due to: 1) a strong student statement; 2) CV; 3) gpa.
All application packages must be complete with the signed Award Cover Sheet, the student statement, and a completed graduate student CV. Incomplete application packages will not be accepted by the OGPR.
Please visit the following web page for award eligibility guidelines, application instructions, award descriptions and criteria, application forms and a graduate CV template at: http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/grad/funding/apply/
Dr. Audrey Osler will be speaking at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby campus on Monday November 4th, 430-6 pm (reception to follow). Dr. Osler's talk is titled: Sanitized history and sanitized citizenship: How do we address conflict in education for justice and human rights? Please note that space is limited, so please register early. Please find registration information on the attached flyer. Audrey Osler talk announcement
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Monday, October 21
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Scarfe 310
Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser
How can a spiral of inquiry approach be useful in teacher education and in ongoing professional learning?
How is inquiry shifting practices through networks and through the use of a research--informed spiral of inquiry strategy?
How are BC educators becoming involved with the 7 learning principles from the OECD’s The Nature of Learning – and how could participation in the Innovative Learning Environments initiative (along with educators from around the world) help to transform BC educational practices?
Dr. Judy Halbert and Dr. Linda Kaser are co-leaders of Networks of Inquiry and Innovation and the Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network. They have served as principals, district leaders and policy advisors with the Ministry of Education in the areas of innovative leadership, district change, rural education, literacy and Aboriginal education. They are co-directors of the Centre for Innovative Educational Leadership at Vancouver Island University where they currently teach graduate programs in educational leadership. They are also the Canadian representatives to the OECD international research program on Innovative Learning Environments.
Linda and Judy are the co-authors of Spirals of Inquiry (2013), Leadership Mindsets: Innovation and Learning in the Transformation of Schools (2009) and Leading Professional Inquiry with Helen Timperley (in press, 2014). They have worked intensively with educators in every part of BC.