Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBC Faculty of Education – Page 27 – Building a Vibrant Academic Community

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.

Announcements Funding and Awards

Master’s Affiliated application and reference form now available‏

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Post date October 23, 2013
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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

Courses Graduate Program Opportunities

GPS sessions: Writing for the Public, Supervisory Relationships + Working Across Cultures‏

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Post date October 22, 2013
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Registration is now open for:

Getting the Word Out: Writing your research for the public sphere

Monday, October 28^th, 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 30^th, 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 31^st, 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 .

Employment

Stanley Park Ecology Society – Education and Outreach Manager

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Post date October 22, 2013
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http://stanleyparkecology.ca/job/public-education-and-outreach-manager/

Announcements

Course cancellations emails: system error‏

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Post date October 22, 2013
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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.

Announcements Speakers

Registration for TerreWEB and CTLT joint workshop‏

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Post date October 22, 2013
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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.

Publication Opportunities

Call For Papers: R. I. Simon: A pedagogy of public possibility

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Post date October 22, 2013
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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.

Announcements Funding and Awards Graduate Program Opportunities Office of Graduate Programs - FoE

REMINDER – FoE Endowed Scholarships Due Monday Oct 28

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Post date October 22, 2013
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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/

Speakers

Nov 4 – Dr. Audrey Osler: Sanitized history & sanitized citizenship

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Post date October 21, 2013
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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

Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities Office of Graduate Programs - FoE

Oct 18 – NewsFlash #643

For more information on any of the items below or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971. The NewsFlash is also posted online at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash. For UBC-wide events, please visit Live @ UBC: http://www.liveat.ubc.ca.

Announcements Department Events Speakers

Oct 21 Spirals of Inquiry – Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser – a YTE event

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http://yte.educ.ubc.ca/oct-21-spirals-of-inquiry

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.

Uncategorized

New international graduate students – regarding off-campus work permit

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Post date October 18, 2013
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A message from Basia –

The message is important for new international graduate students if they have an off-campus work permit that they applied through their previous Canadian institution before attending to UBC. If they have the permit they must transfer their eligibility verification to UBC now, otherwise they will encounter difficulties in applying for a permit or visa in the future because they will be considered by CIC to be ones who do not comply with immigration regulations.

To avoid making a mistake, students must take an action to transfer eligibility verification online before November when all institutions participating in off-campus work permit program will report to CIC.

I would appreciate it if the attached message can be sent out to all new international graduate students in your department. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

The message to students is attached. Message about OCWP Eligibility Transfer

Regards, Charles

Employment

Open rank position at University of California – Irvine‏

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Post date October 17, 2013
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Two open rank positions in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. One with a focus on early childhood and another in cognition and learning. We are a very interdisciplinary and innovative program in a coastal city, with fabulous weather all year long!Please circulate/consider applying.
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Announcements Speakers

CTLT Learning week: Teaching Through Visual Cognition in an Immersive Online Environment‏

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Post date October 17, 2013
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CTLT Learning week: Teaching Through Visual Cognition in an Immersive Online Environment

Venue: Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Time: October 25, 2013 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

This event is not just a lecture; it is also a discussion forum. The first 30 minutes will feature a short lecture on how to teach in an immersive online environment through visual cognition. More specifically, this lecture will illustrate how visual elements in a 3D animated virtual world can hook students’ interests to facilitate their learning. During the one hour discussion time, participants will have the opportunity to try out the virtual learning environment and take part in a forum where ideas and views can be exchanged on the benefits and/or disadvantages for teaching and learning in such an environment. The facilitators are subject specialists in math education, language education, music education, and art education.

This is a free event open to Public, Recommended For UBC Faculty and Students

Information can also be found at: http://celebratelearning.ubc.ca/2013/09/teaching-through-visual-cognition-in-an-immersive-online-environment/

Monday, October 21 12:00 – 1:00 pm Scarfe 310

Dr. Judy Halbert & Dr. Linda Kaser

Monday, October 21
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Scarfe 310