AV Loans Updated Hours and Reminders

Faculty of Education AV Loans Service Update

Please be aware that that AV Loan Service pickup and return service hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays ONLY from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM in room 328 of the Education Building (3700 MacTavish). To reserve any equipment, please follow these protocols:

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Step #1: Reserve Equipment

Media Spotlight 鈥� Victoria Talwar, ECP, in the Globe and Mail

Dr. Victoria Talwar, from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, was featured in a Globe and Mail article discussing how much entertainment screen time children should have to balance shared activity time with family members.

Media Spotlight 鈥� Adam Dub茅, Victoria Talwar, and Jeffrey Derevensky, ECP, in the Montreal Gazette

The Montreal Gazette shines a spotlight on Dr. Adam Dub茅, Dr. Victoria Talwar, and Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky, from ECP, and their upcoming Effective Parenting event.听 Each will give a talk and Q&A session about the challenges of parenting in the digital age.

Dr. Dub茅 will discuss the impact of remote learning and will provide resources that can help children with learning difficulties.

黑料不打烊 Parenting Series Moves Online!

For many parents, figuring out how to get children to disconnect from screens can be a frustrating, daily challenge. 听But is it all bad? How concerned should parents be about excessive screen time and kids? This fall, 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Department of Educational Counselling Psychology will be hosting a virtual series of three weekly lectures that will address the best ways for parents to raise kids in the digital age 鈥� all for free.听

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Celebrating World Mental Health Day on Oct 10, 2020!

黑料不打烊鈥檚 Faculty of Education is committed to enhancing mental health resilience at 黑料不打烊 and beyond.

Learn more about what you can do for stress-management through our materials for students: www.黑料不打烊.ca/Education/MentalHealthResilience

Media Spotlight 鈥� Dr. Nancy Heath, ECP, Interviewed on CTV News and Cochrane Today

黑料不打烊 Education's Associate Dean of Research and Innovation and ECP James 黑料不打烊 Professor, Nancy Heath, was in the news this week discussing how public gathering restrictions and increased isolation during COVID-19 is affecting the mental health of university students and CEGEP students.

Media Spotlight 鈥� Dr. Tina Montreuil, ECP, in Journal M茅tro

Tina Montreuil, of the Department of听Educational & Counselling Psychology, speaks about how teacher shortages are hurting vulnerable students in this Journal M茅tro article.听

She talks about how the pandemic makes the environment for students even more stressful, but the support and support they had before is being deployed in a different way.

Media Spotlight 鈥� Dr. Tina Montreuil, ECP, Contributes to Radio Canada Documentary

Dr. Tina Montreuil, Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, has contributed to a documentary entitled "Le Grand R茅veil" produced by Marie-Claude Julien from Radio-Canada on anxiety in youth.

黑料不打烊 and Trafalgar School forge new partnership to transform education

黑料不打烊 University鈥檚 Faculty of Education and Trafalgar School for Girls are partnering to establish a transformative partnership - the CoLab. A first of its kind in Canada, the CoLab will integrate teacher training, classroom practice and cutting-edge pedagogical research under one roof.

Nancy Heath and Shanna Williams, ECP, Receive SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants

The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, has announced an investment of over $4 million in funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council鈥檚 (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grants to provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making in the public, private or not-for-profit sector.

Back-to-School Blues?

Dr. Kristy Robinson, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, investigates the underlying emotional experiences that affect academic engagement and student motivation in this 黑料不打烊 Tribune article on facing the back-to-school blues.

Read the full article here: 黑料不打烊Tribune.com/sci-tech/facing-the-back-to-school-blues

Media Spotlight 鈥� Susanne P. Lajoie, ECP, in The Globe and Mail

Susanne P. Lajoie, Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, wrote an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail on Riding the Wave of Educational Change, where she looks at how now may be the ideal time to embrace technology as a component of everyday instruction. However, with so little preparation time, will instructors be pulled down by the steep learning curve, or will they find new innovative methods of teaching?

Faculty of Education Audiovisual Equipment Loan Service Now Open 2 Days a Week听

Access to the Faculty of Education Audiovisual Equipment Loan Service is currently听by appointment only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM in EDUC 328听(Education Building). The length of individual loans will be extended longer than usually within the limits of existing AV equipment inventories.听

New Course: Introduction to Professional Engagement with Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Announcing a new course open to Education students (DISE, ECP, KPE)!听 EDPE 595: Seminar in Special Topics-- Introduction to Professional Engagement with Indigenous Peoples in Canada is a graduate level course that is also open to to advanced undergraduate students, with permission of the instructor.听Taught by Professor Dennis Wendt on Tuesdays at 11:35 AM to 2:35 PM (EST), this course provides an introduction to key considerations pertaining to professional engagement with Indigenous Peoples

Alumni Spotlight: Child Psychologist Dr. Tamara Soles Offers Parents Advice about Back to School

Child psychologist and parenting coach, Dr. Tamara Soles discusses strategies for parents on how to manage children's stress and anxiety about back-to-school during COVID-19 in her new听Facebook video.