Event Date & Time
Event Description
The 2018 Graduate Students in Teaching, Mini-Conference (GSiT) organizing committee is looking forward to welcoming Presenters and Attendees to UBC, Vancouver Campus, May 1 & 2, 2018. This conference is an opportunity for students to focus on the present and future role of graduate students in teaching: graduate students teaching now, as well as graduate students as future faculty.
This conference is free for all undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.
Day 1: May 1, 2018 |
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All sessions are in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lillooet Room (301) |
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9:30 – 10 a.m. | Conference registration | |
10 – 11 a.m. | 60-minute participatory session “Drafting a Graduate Student Roadmap for Educational Research” Facilitators: Miranda Meents, Laura Melissa Guzman, UBC |
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11 – 11:15 a.m. | Break | |
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | 60-minute participatory session “Authentically connecting course content to students’ daily lives” Facilitator: Laura Super, UBC |
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12:15 – 1 p.m. | Lunch break | |
1 – 1:30 p.m. | 30-minute campfire storytelling “Departmental culture shifted through a TA consultant program” Facilitators: Gerry Gourlay, Cynthia Korpan, UVIC |
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1:30 – 1:45 p.m. | Break | |
1:45 – 2:45 p.m. | Round tables (20 min x3)
Poster session
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2:45 – 3 p.m. | Break | |
3 – 4:30 p.m. | 90-minute participatory session “Facilitating effective peer-to-peer learning and teaching” Facilitators: Najah, Adreak, Jeff Bale, Roquela Fernandez, Mabel Ho, UBC |
Day 2: May 2, 2018 |
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All sessions are in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lillooet Room (301) |
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9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | 60-min participatory session “Debunking Myths, Preconceptions and Misconceptions in Learners” Facilitators: Arnab Ray, Rhy McMillan, UBC |
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10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Panel: Graduate students in teaching (career in teaching) Coming soon |
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12:15 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Lunch break | |
1 – 1:30 p.m. | 30-minute session “Teaching as research: Teaching Professional Development as a tool for career success” Facilitator: Rowshan Rahmanian, UBC |
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1:30 – 1:40 p.m. | Break | |
1:40 – 2:10 p.m. | 30-minute presentation “Interdisciplinary lesson planning” Analise Hofmann, Idaliya Grigoryeva, Nicolas Romualdi, UBC |
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2:10 – 2:20 p.m. | Break | |
2:20 – 3:20 p.m. | 60-minute participatory session “Social and emotional development in undergraduate education” Facilitators: Colin Dring, Magdalena Wojda, UBC |
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3:20 – 3:30 p.m. | Break | |
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | 60-minute participatory session “Datamining Canvas: How students use it; what works” Facilitator: Patrick Dubois, UBC |
For the full program descriptions, please click here.
Registration is free for all undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.
We hope to see you there.
The GSiT 2018 Organizing Committee
Venue: Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Peña Room 301
Venue Website: http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=516
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formerly Lillooet Room.