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FIRE Talk: Who Else Cares About Your Research?
The Graduate Research Commons FIRE (Facilitated Interdisciplinary Research Exchange) Talk explores ways to help graduate researchers extend the influence of their research beyond their own disciplines, faculties and even beyond the confines of academia. Contribute your ideas, thoughts, anecdotes, concerns and hopes about developing the potential of academic researchers to contribute to an audience beyond disciplinary and academic boundaries! (photo courtesy of Loving Earth, Flickr)
The first Talk is taking place on 3 October 2012, from 4pm-6pm in Koerner Library (Room 216)
Topics to be explored include:
- What are the challenges and benefits of presenting to audiences outside your discipline or the academic community?
- What are the problems your discipline faces when communicating or collaborating with other disciplines and communities?
- How has your research been enriched or hampered by interdisciplinary work?
Be a FIRE Presenter (Deadline to submit extended!):
It isn’t too late to present at the FIRE Talks! Send your responses to any of the above questions or your own thoughts and anecdotes on the topic to research.commons@ubc.ca or post them on our Facebook event page by the 2nd of October 2012!
Be a FIRE Participant:
Join us on October 3rd and contribute to the discussion around these and related issues. Contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary research exchange series by graduate students, for graduate students!
For more information, check out our webpage : http://researchcommons.library.ubc.ca
Register here: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/3301
Light refreshments will be provided!
Got Class?
The Class (Entre les murs) is an award-winning film directed by Lauren Cantet. It’s set in a tough school in Paris and highlight’s one teacher’s experiences teaching French language and literature.
Come to the Education Library to borrow it (PN 1997.2.C 5784 2009 dvd) and be sure to let us know what you think about it!
Self-Regulation in the BC Classroom
It’s being described as a watershed moment in B.C. education.
Six school districts have embarked on a project that views self-regulation as the key to addressing the mental, physical and psychological diversity in classrooms that sometimes disrupts learning and creates a stressful environment for teachers.
Leaders in those districts have embraced the philosophy of York University professor Stuart Shanker, that teaching children to self-regulate — in other words, remain calm, focused and alert — is the best way to help them learn. It’s a theory backed by education ministry officials.
Surrey superintendent Mike McKay, who is leading the B.C. project, says the goal is to apply brain research in designated classrooms while working with Shanker’s research team. The districts — Surrey, West Vancouver, Coquitlam, Victoria, Bulkley Valley and Nanaimo-Ladysmith — are simply the “first wave” of an effort McKay hopes will spread provincewide.
Re-Imagining and Indigenizing the Library’s Role in Educating New Teachers: Tuesday September 25
You are cordially invited to re-imagine the role of libraries – specifically the Education Library, First Nations House of Learning Xwi7xwa Library, and more broadly, school libraries will be examined.
The re-imagined teacher education program has inspired revision in the role Education librarians play to respectfully and meaningfully integrate First Nations history, content, and world-views; commit to inquiry and research oriented education; and emphasize diversity and social and ecological justice. Our libraries can support teacher candidates as they acquire theoretical understandings for teaching and apply those theories in their practice. We bring teacher candidates and ideas together in library spaces that offer unique learning environments, where inquiry, collaboration, the role of Indigenous Knowledge, relationships and ways of knowing are celebrated. This session will be interactive: we present our re-imagined roles and seek feedback and ideas to further ensure our relevance for faculty and teacher candidates.
Presented by:
Sarah Dupont
Aboriginal Engagement Librarian, First Nations House of Learning—Xwi7xwa Library
Jo-Anne Naslund
Instructional Programs Librarian, Education Library
Danielle Winn
Reference and Instruction Librarian, Education Library
Scarfe Building, Education Library Room 155, 12:30pm
10th Annual Field Trip Fair for Teachers
Your one stop shop for field trip information!
Date: Monday, October 1, 2012, 3:00 – 6:00pm (arrive when you can)
Location: VanDusen Botanical Garden – 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver BC
- Meet the educators from over 50 field trip sites
- Opportunities to win a free field trip for your class
- Bus bursaries for charter transportation
- Refreshments for pre-registered guests
- Free parking – draw for those who can show a transit ticket!
TEACHER REGISTRATION IS OPEN. Click here to register.
Advanced registration is required to attend. This is an adult only event due to liquor licensing.
Bring a colleague to the event. Print a poster for your staff room (see below).
field_trip_fair_for_teachers.pdf
~text from the B.C. Field Trips Website