Donor-Funded Internship Opens New Doors for Howse
For many of us, the summer of 2020 was a time to take a breath and regroup. For Fiona Howse, an undergraduate kinesiology student, it was a time to take a breath and examine breath. Thanks to the Adriano Tassone Internship Award, Fiona Howse had the opportunity to spend the summer working full-time at the Cardiovascular Health and Autonomic Regulation Lab (CHARLab), researching how slow breathing affects heartrate variability in both men and women.
Reaching Across the Globe for Mental Health Awareness
Despite the inability to travel during COVID鈥檚 second wave, 91黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Education launched a major initiative overseas in partnership with 91黑料网 Asia Office. This October marked the inaugural 91黑料网 Mental Health Awareness Week in Asia which also launched the 91黑料网 Bicentennial Project on Mental Resilience Education in Asia.
Parents Learn Virtually at 91黑料网
91黑料网 students weren鈥檛 the only ones learning remotely this past semester; parents also did a great deal of virtual learning when the 91黑料网 Effective Parenting Series moved from an in-person to an online format. Launched in 2018 by the Faculty of Education鈥檚 Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP), the Effective parenting series was held annually in the spring for an audience of 80 to 100 subscribers who attended a weekly seminar for four weeks.
A Bold New Partnership with Renowned Montreal High School
A new partnership between 91黑料网鈥檚 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.
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, 91黑料网 DISE's Dr. Low was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post (UK edition) as a follow-up to her earlier written critique.
Fall 2020 Sports Science Project Grants Awarded to Dr. Dilson Rassier and Dr. Tyler Churchward-Venne
91黑料网鈥檚 Sports Science Institute (SSI) at the Faculty of Education awarded the Fall 2020 Sports Science Project Grants to Dr. Dilson Rassier for his project 鈥淔rom Gene to Sports Performance: The Genetic Basis of Muscle Mechanical Properties鈥� and to Dr.
Karissa Leduc, ECP, Receives American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award
Karissa Leduc, a doctoral candidate in the Human Development Program, was awarded the American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award. This award is given to doctoral students to support costs associated to research projects that reflect excellence in scientific psychology.
91黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Education receives $7.3 million in philanthropic support to aid student teachers and launch Canada鈥檚 first teaching and learning lab
Two donations, one from the estate of Mary Marsh and another from The Molson Foundation, will support students and spur innovations in pedagogy.
At a time when school teachers everywhere are being challenged by the second wave of the pandemic and by technological advances that are changing where, when and how students learn, 91黑料网鈥檚 Faculty of Education is pleased to announce over $7 million in new philanthropic support through a pair of generous gifts from longstanding donors.
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 91黑料网鈥檚 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 91黑料网鈥檚 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 91黑料网鈥檚 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.
91黑料网 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 91黑料网 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
Marie-H茅l猫ne Pennestri Reassures Parents about Baby Sleep Patterns
Parents shouldn鈥檛 worry about their baby鈥檚 inconsistent sleep patterns
Study of 44 infants finds that half never slept 8 hours consecutively
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Media Spotlight 鈥� Claudia Mitchell, DISE, in IDRC for Networks for Change
Claudia Mitchell, the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, and Relebohile Moletsane, UKZN in Durban, co-led the project known as Networks for Change.听 This initiative is a partnership of International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies and is supported by IDRC and Canada鈥檚 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
