Innovative and generous ped counsellor recognized with SALTISE Award
May 18th, 2022
Working with a team of faculty to revise a CEGEP program is an intense job that often takes one or two years to complete.
“I’m like a doula,” said Dawson Pedagogical Counsellor Monica Lopez in an interview with the Communications Office. “I accompany the faculty through the revision process, with all the emotions it involves, and then I hand back their ‘baby’ and step back.”
To find out why Monica is being recognized and what she did before Dawson, read the homepage news story in the Read More link.
May 18th, 2022
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) has named 10 of its faculty members “DALChampions” in honour of their extraordinary contributions to innovating the classroom experience. DALC is a group of teachers from various disciplines that strives to improve teaching and learning through Active Learning (AL) pedagogical practices, and the…
2022 Winner of the Liberal Arts Brick Books Poetry Prize
May 4th, 2022
The Liberal Arts Brick Books Poetry Prize is awarded this year to Catherine Salkeld for showing promise in poetry writing.
Catherine’s winning sonnet, “Hallowed Ground’’ will be published in the 2022 Liberal Arts Anthology. The prize, sponsored for the past eight years by Canadian poetry publisher Brick Books, will be awarded at the launch of the Anthology on May 12.
Kudos to Catherine and to the following poets whose work earns honourable mention:
Beatriz Artmann Sherren, “Holding onto my faith,” “Things that sing”
Harriette Bambrough, ‘’This is for You,” “Harriette,” “Poor Investments”
Tess Harty, “For the Girl, at the Crux of Her Womanhood,” “Things I am Grateful for”
Greta Rotzetter, “Poem to my brother and sister”
Elliott Trembecka, “burning, burning.”
May 4th, 2022
In Fall 2022, the Women’s/Gender Studies Certificate will once again be offering its foundational Learning Communities course GENDER MATTERS (see description and course competency below). Kim Simard from Cinema-Communications will be leading a group of faculty volunteers from across different disciplines. The goal is to offer a Learning Communities experience to W/GS students that deepens…
May 4th, 2022
Have you ever thought it would be interesting to work with another teacher in your classroom? To bring different perspectives into both of your classes To create interesting class-based projects that allow students from different courses, or even programs, to work together To combine your respective expertise and time to design learning opportunities that enable…
May 4th, 2022
The Dawson College Humanities & Public Life conference is an annual conference that introduces CEGEP students to the ambiance, culture, and discovery of academic conferences. We aim to provide a bridge between great ideas, new research, and exciting debates, as well as showcasing how the questions we tackle in the Humanities are relevant to concrete,…
May 4th, 2022
The North-South Studies Profile of the Social Science Program is working on a new local pilot stream that will provide students with the possibility to deepen their knowledge and involvement in social justice issues in Montreal. Until now, the profile has been centred around a three-week trip to a community in the Global South in…
May 4th, 2022
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) has named 10 of its faculty members “DALChampions” in honour of their extraordinary contributions to innovating the classroom experience. DALC is a group of teachers from various disciplines that strives to improve teaching and learning through Active Learning (AL) pedagogical practices, and the…
May 4th, 2022
Eight Dawson students have presented the work they have been doing at ScienceFest 2022 as interns as part of DawsonAI’s collaboration with industry partner Ciena, a postdoctoral researcher and university partners from Concordia and ÉTS to promote the study of innovative AI-enabled applications for the future of 5G in Canada. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity…
Learning Communities winter semester update
May 4th, 2022
Three new Learning Community projects are in development this Winter 2022 semester. Two projects, Physics for Physiotherapy and Inter-professional Education, illustrate the continued expansion of LC curriculum development to career programs, specifically in the medical technologies, where collaboration between program and contributing discipline faculty aims to optimize student learning. A third project, LCs for Small Social Science Disciplines, is developing a new model for pairing courses by way of a common time-block, a complementary theme, and integrative learning activities.
Click Read More for the full report.
« Previous
1
…
22
23
24
25
26
…
43
Next »
Last Modified: May 18, 2022
