Dear Graduate Students, As part of OGPR's activities in the frame of the Year of Teacher Education, I am developing a brochure on teacher education and teacher research, and one of the sections I would like to include is a brief summary of any teacher education research projects currently being undertaken by our graduate students. Please email me the following if your research contributes perspectives to the field of teacher education or teacher research: Name of student Title of project Department Funding agency Abstract of the project Thank you! Adriana Briseno-Garzon, PhD Project Coordinator, Research and Graduate Programs Office of Graduate Programs and Research Faculty of Education Phone: 604 822 2733 Email: adriana.briseno@ubc.ca
Day: December 9, 2013
3MT 2014: heat organizer packages are ready. If you are interested in hosting a heat, please e-mail graduate.pathways@ubc.ca to receive the information package.
3MT coaching sessions have been scheduled for January 21th and February 12th, see http://3mt.grad.ubc.ca/schedule/ .
Please alert your incoming graduate students of New Graduate Student Orientation. The complete schedule is available at http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/january-2014/
Important dates:
Dec 11th and 12th: Pre-arrival webinars (accommodation/neighbourhoods/banking/cell phone etc)
Jan 6th: International graduate student welcome (Graduate Student Centre Ballroom)
Jan 9th: Main orientation for all new graduate students (Graduate Student Resources, How to be Successful and Financial information)
(Register for January 9th’s event at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2e67 )
Jan 10th: Graduate Student Society open house and club social (open to new and current graduate students)
January’s GPS workshops include Managing Projects, Communicating with the Media, Time Management, Preparing for your Doctoral Exam (including via webinar), Thesis Submission (including via webinar), Copyright for your Thesis and Business & Professional Effectiveness. For complete details visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .
EPSE 630: Advanced Seminar on Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
Course Specifics: Dr. Jenna Shapka (jennifer.shapka@ubc.ca) will be offering this course in Summer Term 1 (May to June, 2014) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30-4:30.
Course Description: As children grow and interact with their environment, the processes underlying their development become increasingly complex. By adolescence, the biological, cognitive, social, and cultural influences have become so intertwined that untangling their separate effects becomes an interesting challenge. This seminar will explore the diversity of the adolescent experience while providing an overview of current research and theory on normative adolescent development. Special attention will be paid to the contexts within which adolescents live and grow (i.e., family, school, peer groups and community). Students will gain an understanding of the biological and social processes that influence development, the challenges and risks facing adolescents today, and the factors that promote positive youth development.
Topics that will be covered include:
§ Social development and Identity formation
§ Achievement and motivation
§ Pubertal timing
§ Sexual risk taking
§ Brain development and cognitive understanding
§ Adolescent development and information technology
§ Problem behaviours in adolescence
§ Adolescent parent and peer relationships
Who should take this course? There are no pre-requisites for this course and it is suitable for all graduate students (Masters and Phd) who are working with, researching, or just interested in an adolescent population.
This is a reminder of the 2013 – 2014 Killam Faculty Teaching Prize. Nomination letters must reach the Department Heads by January 10, 2014.
Killam Faculty Teaching Prize 2013 – 2014
The Faculty of Education has a long history of interest in good teaching. To emphasize the importance of exceptional teaching the Faculty of Education awards up to two prizes of $5000, a plaque and recognition at convocation each year to full-time tenure track faculty members.
1. Eligibility
All Faculty members who hold a full-time tenured or tenure-track appointment are eligible for a Killam Faculty Teaching Prize. While previous award winners are not eligible, previous nominees are encouraged to reapply. These prizes are based on teaching broadly defined over time and not solely on current classroom teaching. Consideration should be given to:
• Teaching performance in formal settings such as lectures (large and small), tutorials, laboratories, practica and clinical placements;
• Teaching performance in informal settings such as graduate student supervision, practicum supervision, office consultation, counseling;
• Innovation in curricula, course content and teaching methodology informed by research;
• Development of courses, programs and course materials; and
• Continuing Professional Education activities.
2. Nomination Process: Department/School Deadline
• One letter of nomination indicating the case for awarding a teaching prize to the nominee should be sent to the Department Head/Director. The letter should address the five criteria listed under eligibility. Faculty and students wishing to nominate a faculty member are encouraged to start early and consult with their Department Head/Director as the nomination process proceeds.
• Up to six support letters may be attached to the nomination letter. These letters should represent the diversity of the person’s teaching responsibilities and be limited to 1-2 pages each.
• The nominee should include a one page teaching philosophy statement.
• The nominee should provide a CV.
• The above constitutes the nomination package that must reach the Department Head/Director by January 10, 2014.
EDCP courses: Dr. Peter Grimmett (peter.grimmett@ubc.ca)
EDST courses: Dr. Pam Ratner (pam.ratner@ubc.ca)
EPSE courses: Dr. Bill Borgen (william.a.borgen@ubc.ca)
LLED courses: Dr. Lee Gunderson (lee.gunderson@ubc.ca)
HKIN courses: Dr. Robert Sparks (robert.sparks@ubc.ca)
For other acronyms, please ask the instructor for their department home.
3. Nomination Process: Faculty Deadline
• Departments and the School will follow their own internal review processes and choose one nomination to forward the Faculty level committee.
• Departments will refine the nomination package so it adheres to the number and length of letters, length of teaching philosophy, etc.
• The Department Head/Director will submit the nomination package along with a cover letter that includes a longitudinal review of the nominees teaching performance (using SCETS and course evaluation information) and any other pertinent information to the Chair of the Killam Faculty Teaching Prize Committee, Dr. Rita Irwin, Associate Dean, Teacher Education Office by February 28, 2014.
The Call for Proposals for the 17th Annual IOP Conference, hosted at UBC Faculty of Education, is now open.
This one-day conference creates a space for practicing education professionals and students to come together to share their questions, investigations and understandings about their practice.