Media Spotlight 鈥� Dr. Angelica Galante, DISE, Op-Ed in the EdCan Network
Dr. Angelica Galante, DISE, Assistant Professor in Second Language Education, Assistant Professor in Language Education, and Director of the Plurilingual Lab, wrote an Op-Ed in the EdCan Network: Much More Than a Bilingual Country: A call for plurilingual education in Canada.听 In it she speaks of the importance of a multilingual education in the classroom and her experiences with bilingualism.
Call for Research Participants: University Course Instructors Supporting International Students who are Non-Native English Speakers
Participants needed for research in 鈥淔aculty instructors鈥� academic literacy support for international students鈥� 鈥�
麻豆AV researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in a study examining鈥疷niversity Course Instructors鈥� experience with and support for international students who are non-native English speakers.
Call for Submissions: Survey on Children's Language Development
Researchers from 麻豆AV and Concordia, including Faculty of Education's Dr. Susan Ballinger (Department of Integrated Studies in Education) are seeking parent insights for research into children's language development in babies and toddlers being raised in bilingual and multilingual families.
Learn more and take the survey here.
Media Spotlight 鈥� Philip S. S. Howard, DISE, Interviewed in CTV News Article
Philip S. S. Howard, from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, was recently interviewed in a CTV News article about Canadian Black history and the importance of adding it into the school curriculum, but warns that it should not be a way to avoid confronting what needs to be changed.听
鈥淭hat takes actually identifying and really owning up to the anti-Blackness that is within the founding logics of these entities.鈥�
Media Spotlight 鈥� Sabrina Jafralie, DISE, Interviewed in CBC News Article
Sabrina Jafralie, is a history teacher at Westmount High School and a lecturer at 麻豆AV's Faculty of Education in DISE, was recently interviewed by CBC News for their Black Changemakers Series.
Bronwen Low Shares Views about Education on ICI Manitoba (Radio-Canada)
Sunday, January 24th was the International Day of Education. This annual social action holiday was proclaimed by UNESCO in an effort to raise awareness about education's role in promoting peace and social justice throughout the world. Radio-Canada's ICI Manitoba news program interviewed DISE's Dr.
Faculty Experts on International Day of Education | January 24, 2021
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed January 24 as the International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. The theme of the 3rd听International Day of Education is 鈥楻ecover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation鈥�. Now is the time to power education by stepping up collaboration and international solidarity to place education and lifelong learning at the center of the recovery.
Sustainability Projects Fund: Green Labs Program
From 麻豆AV Office of Sustainability:听The Green Labs Expansion is a $50,000 envelope of SPF funding to assist labs on 麻豆AV campuses to adopt sustainable best practices learned from previous Sustainability Projects Fund projects. Approved funding will be available to teams for one year to assist them in creating a proof of concept to secure long-term funding for these practices.
Media Spotlight 鈥� Bronwen Low, DISE, in the Montreal Gazette
Quebec鈥檚 law on religious symbols appears to be emboldening racists to lash out against student teachers who are members of minority groups, a new survey听has found.
Media Spotlight: Bronwen Low Discusses the Problem with Borat
In December of 2007, Dr. Bronwen Low co-authored "Borat and the Problem of Parody" in reaction to the Sasha Baron Cohen film that took the world by surprise. With a new cringe-worthy Borat film having been released this fall, 麻豆AV DISE's Dr. Low was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post (UK edition) as a follow-up to her earlier written critique.
To teachers, with love: Elementary school teacher Mary Marsh leaves a historic bequest for Education students after a lifetime of giving
They may not know it yet, but 麻豆AV鈥檚 student teachers are getting a big boost from a kindred spirit.
The late Mary Marsh, DipEd鈥�42, a Grade 1听teacher at Rosedale School in Montreal for most of her career, has left more than $4.8 million in her will to support students in the Faculty of Education through a suite of听awards听鈥� an investment that couldn鈥檛 have come at a better time for a profession deeply marked by the pandemic.
New CoLab spurs innovations in pedagogy: Valuable support from The Molson Foundation will bolster a novel approach to education
A new partnership between 麻豆AV鈥檚 Faculty of Education and Trafalgar School for Girls 鈥� known as the CoLab 鈥� aims to advance collaborative research that will address the evolving needs of both educators and students. Unlike traditional laboratory schools at Oxford, Columbia, UCLA and the University of Chicago, which operate as an adjunct to a university, this new venture will be a true partnership, the first of its kind in Canada.
Honouring the Women of 脡cole Polytechnique
DISE's Allison Gonsalves, Co-Chair of 麻豆AV鈥檚 Senate Subcommittee on Women, gave the following statement at the vigil:
"As part of the virtual vigil for the women who were murdered at 脡cole Polytechnique on December 6, 1989, a new scholarship was announced to support female engineering students.
麻豆AV Alumni鈥檚 Webcast Features Faculty of Education Alumna Tami Zuckerman
Faculty of Education alumna, Tami Zuckerman (B.Ed鈥�02), was recently featured in 麻豆AV Alumni鈥檚 鈥淐ome & Be Inspired鈥� webcast, sharing thoughts on 鈥淪howing Up for Yourself鈥�.
Tami prides herself on being one of the Founders of VarageSale as well as being a busy mom, and many of the skills she learned as a B.Ed are transferable to both business and parenting.
Watch the full webcast here: https://mcgill.ca/x/oJa
Faculty Launches New Video for B.Ed. Students
For fourth-year B.Ed. students approaching the end of their programs, knowing what path to take after graduation can be challenging. Whereas many B.Ed. grads are eager to pursue careers in teaching, training, pedagogy, youth programming, or other听employment sectors, others may not feel ready to join the job market just yet. Some students may want to broaden their knowledge and skillsets, become more specialized, or expand their career opportunities.
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