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Wednesday Jan 23 – Mark your calendar Book Sale

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Post date January 17, 2013
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We are still accepting donations of material for our above sale and these can be dropped off to TEO Monday to Friday 10:00 to 4:30 up to and including the morning of the sale. Besides re-sellable books, we also accept used CDs and DVDs. If you have spare plastic bags at home, we can also use these for our purchasers to bag their goodies.

Please be sure to attend and browse as we receive absolutely fabulous donations of novels, literature, light fiction, mysteries, non-fiction including cookbooks, self-help, humour, children’s books and academic books, history, biographies – and almost every other subject you can imagine!

Wednesday, January 23^rd

Scarfe Foyer, 2125 Main Mall

11:00 to 3:30.

Contact Maureen Shepherd (email: Maureen.shepherd@ubc.ca) 604 822-0165

You won’t be disappointed and will be sure to find something to buy. Because our sale normally lasts only one day, we price to sell: $1 for hardback books, 50 cents for paperbacks. You will not find better prices anywhere.

And most importantly all proceeds go to volunteer animal charities in the lower mainland that rescue abused and abandoned animals and operate no-kill shelters. We have raised approximately $6,000 for these charities over the years and every dollar helps. Please support those who cannot speak for themselves.

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Call for Participants – DESIGNING OUR FORESTS

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Post date January 14, 2013
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SHAPE PERCEPTION – A CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

The Interactive Digital Environmental Assessment Laboratory (IDEAL) in the Faulty of Forestry is recruiting individuals for a survey related to perception of shapes. The survey consists primarily of rating a number of images of different shape designs.

Date: Starts Jan 14, 2013

Time: By appointment – approximately 45 minutes

Contact information: if interested, please email your gender, program (area of study), and availability to ideal.forestry.ubc@gmail.com

Email: ideal.forestry.ubc@gmail.com

Phone: (604) 822-6708 or (604) 363-1680

Location: Room 2203 in the Forest Sciences Centre

Participants: The survey will be open to anyone except those who have one or more of the following: limited availability, are under the age of 18, or has a blindness or severe visual handicap. All information associated with this study will be handled confidentially.

Abstract: In this experiment we will show the subjects a number of shape design images and ask them to rate these on a simple scale. These ratings will be compared to a computer model in order to investigate how well the model relates to individual perception. Upon completion of the image ratings, participants will be required to complete a short questionnaire. Participants in the survey will receive a $10 honorarium.

Announcements Funding and Awards

Graduate Funding Opportunities

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Post date January 14, 2013
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2012-2013 WENDY K. SUTTON GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

IN EARLY CHILDHOOD LITERACY (#1998)

We are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for Education graduate students. The Wendy K. Sutton Graduate Scholarship in Early Childhood Literacy are scholarships totaling $1,500 that have been endowed by Dr. Wendy K. Sutton, a specialist in children’s literature and a dedicated educator, for Education graduate students whose scholarly work advances the understanding and practice of early childhood literacy, with priority given to those focusing on the preschool years. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Education in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

ALSO AVAILABLE FOR THE 2012-2013 YEAR:

2012-2013 LUKASEVICH MEMORIAL GRADUATE PRIZE (#1968)

The Lukasevich Memorial Graduate Prize is a $300 prize endowed in memory of Margaret and Peter Lukasevich by their daughters, Dr. Ann Lukasevich and Mrs. Margaret Tousignant. It is awarded to a graduate student whose scholarly work informs practice in early childhood education. Preference will be given to students who have experience working with, or teaching, young children between the ages of three and eight. The award is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Education, in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

The competition award eligibility guidelines, application instructions, award descriptions and criteria, application forms for both of the above awards are available on the OGPR web site at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/funding/ogpr.html.

Completed packages FOR BOTH AWARDS are due in the OGPR by 4:00 pm, January 14, 2013,

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Call for Applications: 2013-2014 FoE Internal Grants and Awards‏

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Post date January 14, 2013
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The OGPR is pleased to announce three internal Faculty of Education funding opportunities: the HSS Seed Grants, John and Doris Andrews Research and Development Award, and the Jacqueline Farquhar Endowment for Children’s Mental Health Fund.

The application deadline for all three initiatives is Monday March 18^th in the OGPR. I encourage you to contact me if you wish to explore any of these grant programs. As the Farquhar award requires faculty/student collaboration I will also advertise it on the graduate student listservs.

Sincerely,

Rita

Jacqueline Farquhar Endowment for Children’s Mental Health Fund

Value: A committee will consider proposals with a range of values, from smaller requests for a few hundred dollars, to larger requests up to $6,000.

Description: This award is made available through a fund established by the Vancouver School Board and Jacqueline Farquhar’s family and friends, and is specifically designed to carry on her passion for enhancing schools’ capacity to identify and respond to students struggling with depression and anxiety. The primary goal of the fund is to a) translate completed research into accessible forms that community stakeholders and educators can utilize, disseminate and take into the classroom and/or community with a goal of impact on practice; b) to find practical uses for completed research i.e. production of a brochure, books, workshops, instructional materials, web sites, etc., with a clear potential for impact on practice (technology component as a tool for sharing); and c) to increase the awareness of issues that deal with child mental health.

Eligibility: The funds are open to faculty/graduate student teams, consisting of faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor and above, and graduate students registered in the UBCV Faculty of Education. The faculty member is expected to play a leadership role in the knowledge mobilization project; teams will consist of one faculty member and one or more graduate students. One grant per collaborative team project is available. The grant targets activities designed to disseminate/mobilize research findings/outcomes to the community with a tangible product/activity, and does not support the data collection and analysis stages of research.

Faculty of Education HSS Seed Grant

Value: Proposals with budgets up to $7,000 will be considered.

Description: Funding for the Faculty of Education HSS Seed Grant is made available through the annual SSHRC Institutional Grant, and is specifically designed to promote research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The primary goal of the Faculty of Education HSS Seed Grant is to support high-quality research in the social sciences and humanities by providing small funds that will aid in the early-stage development of a research project. Funds may be used to further Faculty members’ research programs by supporting, for example, pilot research, networking activities (including bringing external community partners to UBC to develop research partnerships), field/library research, literature reviews or synthesis or re-analysis of data sets collected through previously completed projects. Applicants must make a strong case for how the proposed research activities will advance their research.
John H. M. and Doris D. Andrews Research and Development Award

Value: One $3,700 award.

Description: Dr. John H. M. Andrews, former Dean of Education, UBC (1973-79), and his wife Doris have generously endowed an annual award designed for research and development projects that have an impact on the community and make a contribution to society. The research component must have a direct impact on the community and increase our knowledge and understanding of Canadian education. The development component must be conducted in collaboration with a community educational partner.

Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

January 21-24 – GPS Workshop Registration

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Post date January 14, 2013
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Registration is now open for:

Monday, January 21^st

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Managing Effective Collaborative Research Teams (develop tools and techniques for managing projects, group dynamics, leadership and conflict within collaborations)

To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g21c1

Wednesday, Jan 23^rd

10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Time Management

To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2216

1:30 – 3:00 PM 3MT Coaching Session (learn about the Three Minute Thesis competition including tips on giving an effective presentation)

3:00 – 4:00 PM Introduction to Interacting with the Media (learn two tools of the trade to get your messages across effectively)

To register for one or both of these sessions, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2217

Thursday, January 24^th

9:30 – 10:30 Preparing for your Doctoral Exam

10:45 – 12:00 Submitting your Thesis

To register for one or both of these sessions, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2218

1:00 – 3:00 Copyright for your Thesis

To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2219

For a complete session descriptions or information on upcoming sessions, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at any time.

Kind regards,

Jacqui.

Announcements Employment Graduate Program Opportunities

Post-doctoral Fellowships at ASU (Fall 2013)‏

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Post date January 14, 2013
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Dear Colleagues: this note is to announce two endowed post-doctoral fellowships for two academic years starting in the fall of 2013 at Arizona State University. This is a residential fellowship. The selected fellows will work on research related to the complex equity demands of urban education and its impact on PreK-12 schools and students (please see attachments for details; or consult the Division G Blog: http://aeradivg.wordpress.com/

Luis Moll

An American Educational Research Association List

If you need assistance with this list, please send an email to listadmin@aera.net.

Announcements Funding and Awards Office of Graduate Programs - FoE

2012-2013 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards

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Post date January 14, 2013
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Call for Nominations for the 2012/2013 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) Awards which is being sent to Deans and Principals, Associate Deans, Department Heads and Directors on behalf of Dr. Anna Kindler, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President Academic. Specific attention should be given to Appendix III reflecting the changes to the award allocation process.

Deadlines for Nominations:

a) Individual Nominations to EDCP Awards Committee by February 20

b) Individual Nominations from EDCP Awards Committee to EDCP Head by March 4th

c) Departmental Nominations from EDCP Head to Dean’s Office (OGPR) by March 11

Thanks,

EDCP Awards Committee (Karen Meyer, Kit Grauer, and Tony Clarke)

Re : The 2012/2013 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Awards

In recognition of the valuable role that teaching assistants play in our programs, the University annually awards teaching prizes to UBC Teaching Assistants, with two of these awards being allocated to the Faculty of Education. The prize includes both a certificate and $1,000.00. At the same time, in recognition of the contribution to our Faculty so many outstanding Teaching Assistants, the Faculty of Education annually awards an additional teaching prize to supplement those awarded at the University-level – for a total of three awards.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2012-2013 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Awards. We encourage nominations from faculty supervisors (professors, senior laboratory instructors) of the Graduate TA, from colleagues working closely with the nominee, and from the students who attended the nominee’s class or laboratory. Grad TAs can also self-nominate for the award. The award(s) are open to any Graduate Teaching Assistant who acts or has acted in this position during the current, and/or the preceding academic year (2012/2013, 2011/2012).

Please visit the VP Academic & Provost web site for information on eligibility, procedures, supporting documentation and criteria. The full program description and call for nominations are available at: http://vpacademic.ubc.ca/killam-graduate-teaching-assistant-awards/. Applicants to the University-level award will automatically be considered for the Faculty of Education prize, in line with the same criteria.

· Please note: The call for nominations on the VP Academic & Provost web site describes two different sets of support documentation for the dossier – “Required” and “Suggested.” In order that all Education nominations are adjudicated equitably at the Faculty level, Education dossiers must contain only the “Required” support materials. Any of the “Suggested” support materials will be removed prior to the adjudication.

Note that the “required” documentation for the 2012-2013 Killam Graduate TA Teaching Award competition includes “formal feedback from students, colleagues, supervisors.” To help fulfill this requirement, nominees should include in their dossiers student evaluation data, also known as SCET scores.

Applicants should be cautious about directly soliciting comments from students, especially those currently enrolled in courses. Alternatives for documenting student feedback are to reproduce comments from SCET documents, copies of unsolicited emails from students, or other existing indications from students related to the quality or impact of your teaching.

All submitted documents should be single-sided, and in the following order:

1) one-page personal statement, outlining why he or she is an excellent candidate for the award, keeping in mind the “Effective Teaching Criteria” outlined in the Call for Nominations

2) summary of recent teaching responsibilities, including number of students, type of teaching undertaken, hours per week in the classroom, average time spent constructively in consultation with students and with supervisors as it relates to Teaching Assistantship duties. If applicable, include activities from the preceding year;

3) a statement of the candidate’s values and assumptions about teaching and learning in higher education (less than one page in length);

4) any formal feedback from students, colleagues and/or supervisors (in the form of student evaluations, letters, or related material) which addresses the stated criteria for this award;

5) a demonstration of the graduate student’s contributions to teaching over time (for example, as teaching assistants, markers, and candidates able to teach a course on their own).

Deadline:

Please Note:

All completed nomination packages are due in the OGPR for Faculty adjudication by 4:00pm, March 11, 2013.

Within the Faculty of Education we have an adjudication committee that is struck by OGPR, therefore departments should not adjudicate/rank nominations, rather all nominations received by departments should be submitted to OGPR.

For more information please contact the Office of Graduate Programs and Research at 604-822-5512/ email: ogpr@interchange.ubc.ca.

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Deadline for January 2013 Registration

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Post date January 14, 2013
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Monday, 14 January 2013

Today, is the last day for change in registration and for withdrawal from most Winter Session Term 2 courses and Distance Education Term C courses without withdrawal standing of “W” recorded on a student’s academic record. Student Service Centre remains open for course withdrawals with a “W” standing. Consult your courses in the Course Schedule for specific information.

Term 2 courses: Last day for changes between credit and audit for most courses. Consult your courses in the Course Schedule for specific information.

Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

TerreWEB 2012-2013 Term 2 Seminar Schedule

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Post date January 10, 2013
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I’ve attached a pdf of our TerreWEB Seminar Series Schedule for Term 2. This can also be found here TerreWEB Seminar Schedule 2012-2013 T2.

Seminars are in the same time, same place (Thursdays at 1pm, FRST 1221). As usual, we will have live webinar during the time of the seminar. The webinar link will be included with each announcement, on each week’s blog post.

Announcements Department Events

Walkabout 2013- Opening ceremony next Wednesday!

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Post date January 9, 2013
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It’s time for the 7th Annual, 2013 Walkabout! The nine-week walking challenge is back. Get your team together today!

Go to the website to register and for more information: http://educ-walk2013.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

Opening Ceremony: January 16th, 2013 12:30 – 2:00 pm. Scarfe 310.

For those new to Walkabout, here’s how it works.

· You join with four others to form a team of five.

· Each person on a team wears a pedometer and records his/her respective steps (or exercise equivalent steps) each day.

· At the end of a week, the total number of steps walked by the team are submitted to the website and the distance walked (or exercised!) is calculated and plotted on the Walkabout virtual map.

This year Walkabout has joined in with the Year of Indigenous Education to provide a walking journey through the First Nations territories of British Columbia.

The Walkabout website details information regarding some of the Indigenous communities, organizations, and Nations that we will visit on our virtual adventure. We urge you to combine your physical journey with an imaginative one that engages the Indigenous peoples along our virtual route.

In keeping with the theme, your team may want to consider selecting an Indigenous name. This is a great idea, but we request that you be conscious of stereotyping and appropriation concerns. Please see the website for helpful guidelines.

Once again there will be prizes! And many ways to win them, including collecting ‘visas’ in your virtual passport as you engage Indigenous communities along the route. And of course there will be the million stepper club, most team social steps, most team actual steps, most team social and actual steps, best team photo, and so on.

So, don’t delay! Assemble your team and join us for the 7th annual Walkabout.

Go to the website to register and learn more: http://educ-walk2013.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

Dates to remember:

· Opening ceremony: Wednesday Jan 16th, 2013; Neville Scarfe Building Rm 310. 12:30 – 2 pm.

· Nine-weeks walking: Monday Jan 21st to Sunday March 24th, 2013

· Closing ceremony: Wednesday April 3rd, 2013; First Nations House of Learning. 12:30 – 2 pm.

Please spread the word widely. Invite family, friends, and colleagues who are not on campus to join the walk!

By the way, if you don’t have a team, register anyway. We will find a team for you.

Announcements

Volunteer at UBC Farm

VOLUNTEER WITH CHILDREN IN

THE INTERGENERATIONAL LANDED LEARNING PROJECT

AT THE UBC FARM!

“Farm Friend volunteers sow, grow, harvest prepare, and eat food plants with intergenerational teams of one elder, one younger, and 3-5 elementary students at the UBC Farm.

Volunteers commit 8 mornings (Wednesday or Thursday, approximately every other week) from February-June 2013 to work and learn with their Farm Friend teams.

Seniors particularly sought! On-call volunteers are also sought to fill in as needed.

Want to know more? Interested in becoming a Farm Friend?

Contact Stacy @ landedlearning@gmail.com or see our online FAQs sheet.

New Volunteer Orientation:

Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013

GROW and LEARN
HARVEST, COOK and EAT!

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Invitation Doctoral Exam – Alayne Armstrong (January 16, 2013)

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You are invited to Alayne Armstrong the Final Oral Examination:

PROGRAMME

The Final Oral Examination

For the Degree of

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

(Curriculum Studies)

ALAYNE CHERYL ARMSTRONG

B.A.H., Queen’s University, 1988

M.A., University of Manitoba, 1995

B.Ed., University of British Columbia, 1997

M.A., University of British Columbia, 2006

Wednesday, January 16, 2013, 9:00 am

Room 203, Graduate Student Centre

Latecomers will not be admitted

“Problem posing as storyline: Collective authoring of mathematics by small groups of middle school students”

EXAMINING COMMITTEE

Chair:

Dr. Pierre Walter (Educational Studies)

Supervisory Committee:

Dr. Ann Anderson, Research Supervisor (Curriculum and Pedagogy)

Dr. Anthony Clarke (Curriculum and Pedagogy)

Dr. Susan Gerofsky (Curriculum and Pedagogy)

University Examiners:

Dr. J. Scott Goble (Curriculum and Pedagogy)

Dr. Carl Leggo (Language and Literacy Education)

External Examiner:

Dr. Elizabeth de Freitas

Ruth S. Ammon School of Education

Adelphi University

Garden City, New York

United States

ABSTRACT

This dissertation investigates the problem posing patterns that emerge as small groups of students work collectively on a mathematics task, and describes the characteristics of problem posing that result.

This case study is a naturalistic inquiry about four small groups of Grade 8 students in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia who are working in a classroom setting, with the researcher acting as participant/observer and videographer.

The concept of author/ity is used to highlight human agency in mathematics. Small groups, as learning systems, are considered to be “authors” of their discourse, and the improvisational nature of authoring is discussed. A parallel is drawn between the storyline of a literary work and the storyline that emerges as a group poses problems in order to work its way through a mathematical task.

The metaphor of a tapestry is used as a way of describing how the threads of group discourse weave together. To address the challenge of documenting collective behavior at the group level, a method of data analysis is introduced that “blurs” the data in order to capture patterns that emerge over time – transcripts are color-coded and then shrunk to create tapestries that provide visual evidence of collective problem posing patterns.

This dissertation finds that collective problem posing is an emergent process. Each group poses its own set of problems, and the number of problems posed and their frequency also vary, resulting in individual tapestries for each group. The tapestry patterns are then used to compare characteristics of the groups’ discussions.

Problem posing appears to be an activity that these groups are able to do without receiving formal instruction or direction. The reposing of problems helps to structure each group’s discussion, with the role that each problem plays in the conversation evolving as it reemerges. The concept of groups working as bricoleurs is also explored, with bricolage in mathematics being characterized as a creative and generative process.

The dissertation concludes with a discussion of expertise in school mathematics and what implications an “aesthetic of imperfection” might have in the mathematics classroom.

EXAM DETAILS for ALAYNE CHERYL ARMSTRONG

1. Exam Time: 9:00 AM on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 (Please arrive 5 minutes early, so the exam can begin promptly).

2. Exam Location: Room 203 of the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road).

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Successful MA/PhD Defences and Advancement to PhD Candidacy‏

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Post date January 9, 2013
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MESSAGE SENT ON BEHALF OF DR. PETER GRIMMETT:

Please join me in congratulating Fay Bigloo (supervisor, Joy Butler) and James Miles (supervisor, Penney Clark) who successfully defended their MA theses in November 2012. Also join me in congratulating Shaye Golparian (supervisor, Rita Irwin) and Yifei Wang (supervisor, Stephen Petrina) who successfully defended their PhD dissertations in November and December respectively. And last but not least, join me in congratulating Natalie Le Blanc, PhD student working under Rita Irwin’s supervision, who successfully advanced to candidacy in December, 2012.

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CIHR Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, Additional Competition

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Post date January 8, 2013
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In order to allocate their full funding for the 2012/2013 fiscal year, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is holding an additional competition for the Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement. Applicants will be awarded funding by CIHR on a first come, first served basis and are thus encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible in advance of the February 1st deadline.

Please consult the Graduate Awards and the CIHR websites for more detail:

https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/cihr-canada-graduate-scholarship-michael-smith-foreign-study-supplement-3rd-call

https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=1773&view=currentOpps&org=CIHR&type=EXACT&resultCount=25&sort=program&all=1&masterList=true