Performa summer 2024 offerings
March 1st, 2024
Dawson College offers support for current teachers and educational professionals to engage in the accredited professional development program for college teachers from University of Sherbrooke. The Performa program encourages continuous learning directly relevant to teachers and professionals roles, taught by Cégep teachers and professionals.
View the Summer 2024 course offering in English that includes
- College Teaching and Course Design (PED601)
- How Students Learn (PED603)
- Fostering Creativity in Teaching and Learning (PRF-751)
The courses are held online and in blended learning format.
The deadline to register if you are new to Performa programs, program or independent study admission will be March 15. Contact Azra Khan, Pedagogical Counsellor, HR for more information.
Over at the Faculty Hub
February 21st, 2024
The next orientation for new faculty will be held on March 21, from 9:00 AM-12:30 PM.
Dawson’s New Faculty Orientation is designed to introduce new faculty to information about college services and procedures, teaching at the college-level, and tips for engaging students.
The orientation includes asynchronous and synchronous components:
- Welcome from the Deans and Directors of Dawson
- Competency based education and the program approach
- Academic integrity at Dawson
- Faculty deadlines
- Faculty roles and responsibilities
- Classroom scenarios and discussion
- Professional development opportunities
This event is open to all new Day and Continuing Education faculty with a Winter 2024 workload.
Register Here
Social Science Week is Feb. 12-16
February 8th, 2024
Over at the Faculty Hub
February 8th, 2024
Join Tiio Hemlock, Pedagogical Counsellor from the Office of Academic Development (OAD), for a viewing of an episode from the PBS documentary Native America. This documentary explores and contradicts Historian George Bancroft’s claim that before Europeans arrived, North America was “an unproductive waste. Its only inhabitants were a few scattered tribes of feeble barbarians, destitute of commerce and political connection.”
A discussion will follow.
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 21
Time: 1 PM- 2:30 PM
Register Here or visit the Faculty Hub website to see the full schedule of faculty professional development opportunities.
Over at the Faculty Hub
January 23rd, 2024
Are you a Dawson faculty member?
Check out these February workshops (open to all faculty)…
- Competency-based Programs: The Essentials
- Classroom Management Strategies
- Evaluation of Student Learning
- College Course Design Basics
and…
- A variety of Moodle workshops
See the complete schedule and register here or visit the Faculty Hub website
Over at the Faculty Hub
November 20th, 2023
New Faculty Orientation is designed to introduce new faculty to information about college services and procedures, teaching at the college-level, and tips for engaging students. This event includes asynchronous and synchronous components:
- Welcome from the Deans and Directors of Dawson
- Competency based education and the program approach
- Academic integrity at Dawson
- Faculty deadlines
- Faculty roles and responsibilities
- Classroom scenarios and discussion
- Professional development opportunities
This event is open to all new Day and Continuing Education faculty with a Winter 2024 workload.
- Register Here for New Faculty Orientation
- Check out opportunities for faculty professional development HERE!
Performa non-credit courses for teachers
November 20th, 2023
Performa (University of Sherbrooke) will offer non-credit training free in the winter 2024 term. Entering College Teaching is for early career teachers. Deadline to register is Jan. 12, 2024. For more information: Non-Credit Training (usherbrooke.ca)
To register: contact Azra Khan, pedagogical counsellor, akhan@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
November 9th, 2023
Erin Barker’s talk at Ped Day on Oct. 13 helped the audience understand the psychological stage that most of our students are in: emerging adulthood, which is from 18 years old to the late 20s. At this age, young adults are “not fully independent, but they are less dependent. It is an age of feeling…
Dawson teacher on Parliament Hill for Medical Radiation Technology Week
November 8th, 2023
To celebrate #mrtweek2023, members from the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT) were in Ottawa this week to speak with MPs, senators and their staff about the MRT profession and the need for federal investments and leadership to help address the MRT workforce challenges throughout Canada at CAMRT's Hill Day.
Dawson's Kathleen Mailly (Faculty, Diagnostic Imaging) was part of the delegation.
November 8th, 2023
Call for Guest Teachers In Winter 2024, the Women’s/Gender Studies Certificate will once again be offering its foundational Learning Communities course GENDER MATTERS (see description and course competency below). Kim Simard from Cinema-Communications will be leading a group of faculty volunteers from across different disciplines. The goal is to offer a Learning Communities experience to…
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