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Apr 30 – The Beauty in Teaching
All are welcome to the following LLED Research Seminar (Apologies for any cross-posting)
The Beauty in Teaching
Invited talk by Dr. Peter O’Connor, University of Auckland
Wed. April 30th at 12:30
Digital Learning Centre, PON F, room 103
Abstract
By overcoming the constraints imposed on teaching in recent years, there remains the possibility teaching can be an improvisational art form that creates moments of intense beauty and joy. The importance of teachers seeking for beauty and surprise in the classroom is conceived as a necessary political response to the factory models that dominate current education policy.
Biography
Peter O’Connor is an Associate Professor and Director of the Critical Research Unit in Applied Theatre in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland. His most recent work has involved creating the Teaspoon of Light Theatre Company (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jznOhFrSvJY) to work with children in Christchurch and a Romeo and Juliet project in Youth Justice. He is an international leader in the field of Drama/Theatre Education.
Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop May 26, 28, 30, 2014. Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop. Please find attached the new policy for registration in the ISW.
The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation. It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence. It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience. Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.
This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the May 26, 28, 30 ISW, please go to:
Mitacs is pleased to announce significant research funding available through the Mitacs Accelerate PhD Fellowship.
Mitacs Accelerate PhD Fellowship
- Three-year PhD fellowship valued at $30,000 per year
- PhD interns and faculty apply their expertise to new challenges
- Long-term research project with private-sector partner and faculty supervisor
- Open to all disciplines
- Application assistance from Mitacs Business Development Representatives
- Deadline: June 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm PST
For more information, please visit the Mitacs Accelerate webpage or contact accelerate@mitacs.ca.
Dear Graduate Students,
I hope you are well and taking care of business, and yourself. We at the GSS are gearing up for lots of fun activities in the summer, but we do hope to see you this Friday! Take time out to hang with us, we’d love to see you!
GSS Social & Recreational:
– The GSS End of Term Party is THIS Friday! We have cold tasty offerings lined up from BrewBC to excite your palate and help you unwind, a DJ rocking the most happening music and mad snacks and desserts! Tickets are selling fast online, and are also available at our front desk during business hours. Get them! Early bird tickets are Sold Out, but you can still get the regular ones!Email us if you still want to help out!
– Hoping to pick up your fitness regime, keep it up, or switch it up?! You want to breathe the summer air and exhale smiling in the knowledge of what good care you’re taking of your body?! 🙂 Or you just want to make a friend, schedule an energizing study/lab break, inject more fun? Sign up for a GSS Fitness Class! We’re offering Pilates, Zumba and Yoga. Bellydance Fitness is going strong too! Classes start on May 20th, so sign up now!
– Also, the GSS Figure Skating and GSS Ice Skating classes are ON!! Thanks to everyone who’s already registered, you have some extra time to decide to take the class, that is until it fills up! The early bird, friends, the early bird… Class starts on April 25th!
– Wait! Would you like to play soccer or softball with some fun grad students this summer, perhaps meet some people outside your department(!) Have you not signed up for the GSS Summer Sports League?! You should really fix that. Deadline is May 1st! Where’s your team?!
Be safe, stay dry!
Ngwatilo
UBC Faculty of Education NewsFlash for Graduate Students #664
April 11, 2014
The Office of Graduate Programs and Research | Faculty of Education | UBC Vancouver
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Dear Graduate Students,
Hope you’ve had a moment to take in the lovely weather we’re having, and with it all the signs of life coming back to Vancouver. And now, today’s random musical interlude (to accompany the newsletter): Stop and Take The Time To Smell The Roses. 🙂
GSS Opportunities:
The GSS is seeking a passionate Advocacy Coordinator to join our Advocacy office. We’re looking for a graduate student interested in helping other students through academic, financial, and disciplinary issues, a person who will engage with the graduate student community to identify issues and areas of concern so that the GSS can help to address these issues. Take a look at the detailed job description. Qualified applicants are invited to submit their resume, cover letter and references to the Vice-President, Administration at vpadmin@gss.ubc.ca.
GSS Social & Recreational:
– The GSS is super excited to host an End of Term Party! We’ll have 3 rounds of FREE Beer Tasting including Spring beers, Dark beers, Pale ales! We’ll have a DJ rocking the most happening music (no matter how young or old you are!), we’ll have a dance instructor for the studious among you, mad snacks and desserts! Tickets available now here, or at our front desk during business hours. Get them! Early bird tickets are $5 until April 15th. PS: Come help us host! We’re looking for 3 volunteers for the night. Your ticket (including a beer or shot) is on us. Come on, email us.
– GSS & Scotiabank have partnered to help you begin building a more financially secure future. This Monday, April 14th at 5.00pm-6.30pm at GSS Thea’s Lounge, you will learn how to build and maintain a healthy credit history, how to obtain your first mortgage to purchase a home & how to invest for your long-term future. Register by emailing execassistant@gss.ubc.ca. We will bring the pizza and beverages!
– 2014 GSS Summer Sports League is back! Create your team and come out and play either Soccer or Softball! Game day will be Fridays over the months of May-July. Click the link for details, then create your team and Register by May 1st!
– GSS Figure Skating Class starts April 25th! Learn spins, jumps, fundamental edge control and figure skating skills. Explore movement on ice and improvise to music! The GSS is offering 7 sessions on Friday’s between 9.00-10.00am at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre. Register by April 16th! It’s only $50 for Grad Students & $60 for Non-Grads! More details.
– GSS Ice Skating Class starts April 25th too! Learn to skate in this course, designed for Adults with limited or no experience. Get familiar with the ice and arena environment with our professional instructors and learn to balance and glide. The GSS is offering 7 sessions starting April 25th on Fridays, 9:00-10:00am at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre. Register by April 16th! It’s only $50 for Grad Students & $60 for Non-Grads.
GSS Sponsored Events:
UBC Department of Educational Studies Research Day will be held on Friday, April 11, at the beautiful Dance Centre (677 Davie Street) in downtown Vancouver. The theme of the day is “Peeking over Shoulders: Discovering our Colleagues’ Work.” EDST Research Day showcases and celebrates the rich educational research, practice and theory being developed by the department’s students and faculty. It will be a day to gather, socialize, and foster a sense of community. Panel presentations and poster displays will begin at 1:00pm and conclude at 5:00pm, with social event to follow at 6:00pm. For an RSVP link, or for questions and comments, please send a message to EDST.researchday@gmail.com.
As you were.
Ngwatilo
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Invitation to register
2014 HISTORICAL THINKING SUMMER INSTITUTEMuseum of Vancouver & UBC Vancouver
July 7-12 | pdce.educ.ubc.ca/htsi2014
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Stunning vistas from the Museum of Vancouver meet with critical perspectives at our Historical Thinking Summer Institute, from July 7-12.
Bursaries are available to help participants join us for this unforgettable experience.
Historical Thinking
Historical thinking is now included as a foundation of the Ontario history curriculum. It plays a key role in the new draft social studies curriculum in British Columbia. Other Canadian provinces are moving in the same direction.
The summer institute is designed for teachers, graduate students, curriculum developers, professional development leaders and museum educators who want to enhance their expertise at designing and teaching history courses and programs with explicit attention to historical thinking.
These concepts will shape our exploration of two substantive themes: Aboriginal-settler relations, and human-nature relations over time. We will use local cases, resources and expertise available in Vancouver, but the work will be applicable to other locations across Canada and internationally.
Registration Deadline – May 15
pdce.educ.ub.ca/htsi2014
Please visit the program website for more information, or contact summer.educ@ubc.ca.
Please find below a list of upcoming Canada Research Chair candidate presentations that will take place this April in the Faculty of Education. All are invited to attend and provide feedback.
Canada Research Chair Tier II: Indigenous Health, Healing and Psychological Wellness in Education
Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education
| Candidate | Presentation Title | Presentation Date & Location |
| Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings,
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Minnesota |
“Increasing indigenous health equity through supporting tribal communities to revitalize, reclaim and reinvent health approaches” | Monday, April 14th
11:30-12:45 Scarfe 310
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| Dr. Alanaise Goodwill,
Assistant Professor, Department of Native Studies – Clinical Specialization, Brandon University |
“Okandossiwin: Research is a gift of knowing” | Wednesday, April 16th
11:30-12:45 Scarfe 310
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Canada Research Chair Tier II: Physical Activity and Health
School of Kinesiology
| Candidate | Presentation Title | Presentation Date & Location |
| Dr. Christopher West,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ICORD, University of British Columbia |
“From rodent to rehab: Physical inactivity and cardiovascular function in spinal cord injury”
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Thursday, April 10th,
11:00-12:30 WMG RM100
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| Dr. Eli Puterman,
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco |
“Physical activity as resiliency: Mitigating stress pathways to disease” | Wednesday, April 16th
11:00-12:30 WMG RM100
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| Dr. Jennifer Brunet,
Assistant Professor, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa |
Title forthcoming | Thursday, April 24th
9:30-11:00 WMG RM100
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| Dr. Kristi Adamo,
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Faculty of Health Sciences University of Ottawa |
“Power of prevention in the early years: The role of active living” | Monday, April 28th
11:00-12:30 WMG RM100 |
For the most up-to-date information on the search, as well as to access candidate CV’s, presentation videos and online feedback forms, please visit the hyperlinks provided above. If you have any questions regarding either of these searches, please let me know.
Approaching the Past 2014 Vancouver
The next Approaching the Past event in Vancouver will take place Thursday, May 8, 2014 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. This free public event sponsored by The History Education Network/Histoire et éducation en réseau (THEN/HiER) will be discussions about the history of policing in Vancouver’s Aboriginal and Chinese communities with special guests from the Vancouver Police Department: Rick Lavallee, Aboriginal Liaison, Diversity and Aboriginal Policing Section, and Wes Fung, Neighbourhood Police Officer, Chinese Community Policing Centre. Everyone is welcome.
Please RSVP to admin@thenhier.ca or (604) 822-6915 to aid us in ordering refreshments which will be provided at the event. Space is limited.
See http://thenhier.ca/en/content/approaching-past-policing-aboriginal-and-chinese-communities-vancouver-may-8 for more information.
Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop May 9, 10, 11, 2014. Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop. Please find attached the new policy for registration in the ISW.
The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation. It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence. It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience. Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.
This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the May 9, 10, 11 ISW, please go to:
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CCFI 565A 952 (May 12-June 20, 2014)
Hi Education Graduate Students! Ready, set, present! Would you like an opportunity to present your research questions? Can you present your findings in 3 minutes or less? On May 14th, as part of the Office of Graduate Programs and Research's "Research Week 2014", you are invited to submit proposals to present your work in 3 minutes or less. Guidelines: * Target should be an educated but non-specialist audience * A single, static PowerPoint slide is permitted * No animations, movement, audio, video, laser pointers, costumes, laboratory equipment, musical instruments, etc. Just YOU! * Presentations are limited to 3 minutes maximum Audience members will vote for their favourite presentation, along with a jury of three Faculty of Education community members (who will assess for comprehension, engagement and communication). The decision of the adjudicating panel is final and faculty members' presentations will not be eligible for either people's or jury's choice awards. The Call for Presentations is now open. Please submit proposals to Adriana Briseno- Garzon (adriana.briseno@ubc.ca) by April 18th, 2014, 4:00pm. Please use the attached Call for Presentation form. I've been dusting off my presentations skills and I hope you will join me on May 14! Sincerely, Laura Teichert LLED PhD student Research Week Planning Team