Master Teacher Program 2018 Graduate Recognition Ceremony
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Master Teacher Program 2018 Graduate Recognition Ceremony Volume M21, Issue No. 11, October 29, 2018 Intercom is published regularly and serves to inform Vanier staff and teachers of notices and special events. It is posted on the Vanier College Website and distributed electronically. Submissions should be sent to [email protected]. Submissions should be in WORD, and sent as an attachment. No formatting or bullets. Deadline: 4:00 publication. Master Teacher Program 2018 Graduate Recognition Ceremony Vanier College is pleased to announce that 13 of its teachers received recognition of their Master Teacher Program Certificate, Diploma, or Master Degree at the recent 2018 Graduate Recognition Ceremony which was held at Champlain College, St. Lambert Campus, on Friday, October 19, 2018 at 7:15 p.m. This Graduate Recognition Ceremony is an event that is held every two years and celebrates the accomplishments of the Cegep teachers and staff who complete one of the three programs offered within the Master Teacher Program (MTP). The Master Teacher Program is a graduate- level, education program for Cegep teachers, offered by the Université de Sherbrooke. Graduate Certificate in College Teaching (GCCT): Participants who take the Certificate program are taught the pedagogical basics of excellent teaching skills, knowledge, and attitudes in the four core courses: College Teaching and Course Design, Assessment as Learning, How Students Learn, and Instructional Strategies for Active Learning. From there, there are several elective courses to choose from: Inclusion, Developmental Psychology, Teaching with Technology, Dynamics and Diversity, Blended Learning, Group Work, Motivation, and Program Evaluation. Graduate Diploma in College Teaching (D.E.): Participants who continue in the Master Teacher Program, take the next 15 credits to complete the Diploma program. Core courses include Constructing Knowledge in Your Discipline, Constructing Knowledge Across Disciplines, Philosophy of Education, Integration Seminar, as well as a few elective courses from the GCCT list above. Master of Education in College Teaching (M.Ed.): Participants who continue to the end of the Master Teacher Program, complete the research portion of the program, both the theoretical and the practical components, and develop and conduct a research activity, often in their own college or classroom. Vanier College is proud to announce that we have 13 MTP graduates in total, with five teachers who completed the 15-credit Graduate Certificate in College Teaching: Meghna Banerjee (Economics), Stefan Bracher (Physics), Chester Moran (Respiratory and Anesthesia), Valeria Rea (Nursing), and Fiona Rowlands (Early Childhood Education). Four Vanier College teachers completed the 30-credit Graduate Diploma in College Teaching: Meghna Banerjee (Economics), Michelle Bayard (Nursing), Elana Cooperberg (Pedagogical Support and Innovation Office), and Juan Alejandro Robles (Nursing). Four Vanier College teachers completed the full 45-credit Master of Education in College Teaching degree: Dana Bath (English), Jailson Lima (Chemistry), Juan Alejandro Robles (Nursing), and Nicholas Rudi (Industrial Electronics). The Master Teacher Program is offered in English and is available to all individuals who work in a Quebec Cegep, teachers and staff alike. Courses are held in the Montreal-area Cegeps, however, thanks to the online, blended-learning structure of the program, Cegep teachers from anywhere in the province can attend online and participate fully in the activities being done in the physical classroom in Montreal. Some individual classes are designed where everyone, all the participants, the teacher, and the technical support person, are all online for the entire class, while other classes require that everyone attend physically, in-class, in Montreal. For more information about the Master Teacher Program, please contact Julia Hall from the Pedagogical Support and Innovation (PSI) Office, or visit the Université de Sherbrooke, Performa website. Wilma Brown, Office of the Academic Dean Academic Council AGENDA Friday, November 2, 2018, 1:00 p.m. Room F-216 1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Approval of the Agenda 3. Approval of the Minutes of September 7, 2018 4. Business Arising from the Minutes a) Academic Council Committees (A-C. Banville) b) Abertay MOU (A. Perout) 5. Main Business i. Items for Consultation a) International Education at Vanier College (J. McMahon, A-C. Banville, A. Perout, A-M. Lemay) ii. Items for Recommendation a) English – French DEC Report ( A. Perout, D. Hoida) b) Architectural Technology Grid Revision (J. Hall, L. Yachnin, S. Tardif) c) Sexual Violence Policy (G. Iaboni) d) By-Law No. 7 (S. Tardif, M. Béland) e) Complementary Courses Committee Recommendations (I. Delisle) f) Articulation Agreement – Concordia University- Business Administration Programs (A. Perout, A. Gates) 6. Reports, Announcements and Correspondence a) Fall 2018 Validated Enrollment (S. Tardif) b) Board of Directors – September 18 Meeting (A-C. Banville) c) Network News (A-C. Banville) d) PMP Revision Report (I. Delisle, M. DeNora) 7. Varia 8. Adjournment Olga Mardas, Office of the Academic Dean Collection of Second-hand Books Dear Vanier community, We are collecting second hand books to donate from October 15 to November 15! Jake’s Co-op will be offering these books to La Fondation des parlementaires du Québec, Cultures à Partager. Most of them will be sent to libraries from countries in Africa and the Caribbean. The other books will be offered to other libraries in Montreal. We will be accepting books in: Books in English and French but preferably French. Textbooks (History, Philosophy, Sciences, medicine) Novels. Children Books. Encyclopedias and dictionaries All books should be in excellent condition! If you have any question regarding this program, come see us at the Co-op. It will be a pleasure for us to explain you the details. Thanks for collaborating to this wonderful cause! Heather Eason, Jake’s Co-op For SALE: Canine and Equine Advent Calendars to support Animal Health Technology Students The Animal Health Department is selling Canine and Equine Advent Calendars filled with twenty- five oven-baked CROCX treats made with ingredients we would find in our own pantry. https://crocx.co/categorie-produit/gateries/ These treats are loved by dogs, horses, but also by rodents, rabbits, and people can enjoy them as well! My Hunny Bunny really loves them :) Find attached an image of my Hunny Bunny and her sample of the biscuit. We are selling them for $10 per calendar. Proceeds will benefit the BEA (Bien-Etre des Animaux de Compagnie du Quebec) Foundation (http://www.fondationbea.org/en/) that also helps promote the Vanier College Foundation fund (http://vaniercollegefoundation.com/who-we-are/) benefiting our Animal Health Technology students, more specifically for the promotion of the Profession and of their Accreditation (https://www.aavsb.org/vtne/). Sara Varano, Animal Health Technology Annual Holiday Craft Fair Our annual Holiday Craft Fair is scheduled for Wednesday, December 5, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. If you are interested in participating in this year’s event, please reserve your table with me by Nov. 28th. The participant MUST be a member (faculty, staff or student not a family member or friend) of the Vanier community. All items to be sold MUST BE HANDMADE by the participant. Each participant will pay $15.00 as a donation to the Vanier College Foundation. For any further information, please call me at ext. 7572. Nora Soukiassian, FSSCAL Treats (but no Tricks) UB Concert It’s Halloween this Wednesday! I can’t disguise my delight at being able to invite you to head down to the Auditorium during UB for some scary music courtesy of the Music Department’s excellent and talented students. And what’s scary about it? Can’t tell you. That will give away any surprises. But I CAN tell you that there will be some wonderful musical treats to be had—and no tricks or unpleasantness to speak of. So come along and join us—jazz and pop music from the combos of Eric Harding and Christopher Smith for all to enjoy! Glen Ethier, Department of Music 2018 Canadian Liberal Arts Fair BAnQ (salles M.450 & M.460), November 17 from 12-4PM Dear faculty and staff, I am happy to announce the first annual Canadian Liberal Arts Fair, November 17 from 12-4 PM at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (salles M.450 & M.460), hosted by the Canadian Liberal Arts Association, an initiative of the Thomas More Institute. The Fair will bring together high school and CÉGEP students who have interests in the Liberal Arts and related disciplines, including philosophy, religion, literature and history, with departments from colleges and universities that may suit the needs and interests of these students. Some students who are actively engaged in reading literature or philosophy may not know what options they have when it comes to post-secondary studies. Montreal has several outstanding programs that can speak precisely to this curiosity. In addition, universities from Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will be in attendance for students who are inclined to discover other parts of Canada while pursuing a Bachelor’s degree. Other students find themselves discouraged from studying in these disciplines because they are unsure what their future career options might entail. In order to address this concern, the Fair will include a panel discussion with three former Liberal Arts students who have found successful and fulfilling careers outside of the classroom: a lawyer working in the Attorney General’s office in Toronto, a CBC radio personality and a co-founder of the College néo-Classique here in Montreal. Finally, the Fair will include a Workshop sponsored by Brila Youth Projects inviting students to participate in the kind of creative and deeply thoughtful conversation that these sorts of disciplines cultivate. The Fair is free and open to the public (students, teachers, parents). While the event will run from 12 to 4PM, the panel discussion will take place from 12:30 to 1:30PM and the workshop from 2:30 to 3:30PM.