�山ǿ�� News - Teaching

CHEM 267 Trailer

webfull — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:07:13 +0000

Interested in what’s happening in the Chemistry Department for Fall 2020? Check out this trailer for CHEM 267, which gives a hint of things to come!

Published: 19 June 2020

Alice Cherestes wins Best Practices and Pedagogical Innovation award

webfull — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:22:17 +0000

Alice Cherestes, a senior lecturer at Bioresource Engineering in �山ǿ��’s faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Published: 12 June 2020

2018 Award for Distinguished Teaching

webfull — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 18:03:37 +0000

Each year, the students of �山ǿ��’s School of Continuing Studies nominate and award instructors with the Award for Distinguished Teaching. This year, instructors Georges Bryson and Dr. Zachary Abram were awarded the 2018 Award for Distinguished Teaching. Their teaching methods, real-world experience and world-class abilities inspired their students to nominate them for the award, one of the highest honours for instructors at the School.

Teaching practices could play an important role in preventing bullying

webfull — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:58:08 +0000

Classrooms that encourage competition between students may inadvertently be creating settings where bullying is more likely to take place. That’s one of the conclusions that can be drawn from work led by �山ǿ�� researchers Maria Di Stasio and Robert Savage, who recently published a paper on the subject in the Journal of Adolescence. But it’s only part of the story.

Published: 23 May 2017

Prof. Lawrence Chen will serve as Academic Lead of eLATE

webfull — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:21:25 +0000

Prof. Lawrence Chen has agreed to serve as the first Academic Lead of the eLATE (enhancing learning and teaching in Engineering) initiative. Prof. Chen will work in collaboration with academic staff and the Pedagogical Coordinator towards meeting the initiative’s objectives, bringing the perspective of a faculty member. Professor Chen is one of our Faculty’s leaders in teaching and learning improvement, and has a growing record of advancing the state of education in our Faculty by implementing new teaching methodologies in FACC courses as well as undergraduate and graduate ECSE courses.

Published: 6 March 2017

�山ǿ�� Management Students Focus on Helping Syrian Refugees

webfull — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:45:06 +0000

By Karen Seidman, Montreal Gazette, April 26, 2016 :

"Every semester, �山ǿ�� faculty lecturer Anita Nowak challenges her students to come up with projects for her social entrepreneurship and social innovation class based on a theme that she finds particularly timely and relevant.

For this semester, it was helping Syrian refugees integrate into Canadian society.

Published: 27 April 2016

The Next Page: Natalie Zhayvoronok: A Better Career, and a Better Future

webfull — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:50:47 +0000

Natalie Zhayvoronok had a double-major in Translation and Education when she arrived in Montreal from her native Ukraine in the summer of 2010. She was planning to continue her career as an ESL teacher, but instead discovered that she couldn’t simply pick up where she left off.

Read more on The Next Page, the School of Continuing Studies' newsletter.

Published: 12 June 2015