Over at the Faculty Hub
September 13th, 2023
Teacher Emotions in the College Classroom: A Leadership Challenge
Join Mary Hlywa (retired faculty, Social Service) for this workshop, relevant to all faculty!
September 22 (Wellness Day) 10-11:30am
Leading a college classroom as a teacher is challenging cognitively, socially, even physically. Teachers experience a range of emotions while striving to meet pedagogical, institutional, professional, and personal goals with integrity. Join in to learn how to use emotions, especially those of aggravation, to reduce the emotional labour of teaching, meet classroom challenges constructively and guide teacher development and pedagogical practice. Register
Visit the Faculty Hub to see additional professional development opportunities!
Coming up in September:
• College Course Design Basics
• Classroom Management Strategies
• Evaluation of Student Learning (Part I)
• Intro to Moodle’s Gradebook
• Indigenous Perspectives
• Intro to Moodle’s Gradebook (on Teams)
• Integrating Sustainability into the Curriculum
• Intro to Assessment in Moodle
Over at the Faculty Hub
August 30th, 2023
Welcome back faculty!
Visit the Faculty Hub website to:
- Learn about professional development opportunities
- Consult resources related to pedagogy and teaching
- Request support from a pedagogical counsellor
We wish you a great semester!
Recap of Winter 2023 Learning Communities
August 30th, 2023
Three teams completed the Learning Communities course design process this winter, resulting in new offerings in F23 and W24 in General Education and in two Social Science profiles: Psychology, and Social Change and Solidarity.
Visit the link below to read about the new offerings.
Over at the Faculty Hub
May 31st, 2023
Best wishes for a relaxing and energizing summer.
See you in the fall!
-Your Faculty Hub Team
May 31st, 2023
Near the end of each semester, the IPE team typically updates the community on some of the IPE learning opportunities implemented. This time, instead of highlighting each activity, we wanted to turn the focus on one aspect of the IPE project: simulation. Here are the three major steps we completed this semester in an attempt…
Call for proposals for Humanities and Public Life
May 3rd, 2023
Proposals to present at the 2023 Humanities and Public Life Conference are being accepted until May 31. The annual conference takes place at Dawson from Sept. 21 to 24.
The theme this year is "What's the Point? Purpose, Meaning, and Value in Challenging Time." Please see the call for papers for more details.
Over at the Faculty Hub
April 19th, 2023
April 19th, 2023
For several years, Dawson Fine Arts faculty members Dr. Emma Doubt and Dr. Pohanna Pyne Feinberg have been having discussions about shifting pedagogical and curricular approaches in the art history discipline. “These shifts in the discipline resonate with a global paradigm shift and social justice movements that call for decolonizing education (amongst other systematic…
Over at the Faculty Hub
April 5th, 2023
What Does Community Mean in the Classroom? Sharing Stories, Swift Trust, and a Sense of Togetherness
This podcast from Faculty Focus talks about ideas for fostering a sense of community, how swift trust can be applied in an educational setting, and how a storytelling activity can inspire students to share their own stories.
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