Atlantic Universities’ Teaching Showcase 2019
October 19th, 2019
University of Prince Edward Island
Program at a Glance
All Sessions 50 Minutes Long Unless Otherwise Noted
Registration: 8:00-9:00 (MCDH Schurman Market Square)
Introduction & Keynote: 9:00-10:15 (MCDH 242)
Break: 10:15-10:30 (Market Square)
Concurrent Sessions 1: 10:30-11:20
Concurrent Sessions 2: 11:30-12:20
Lunch: 12:30-1:15 (Wanda Wyatt Dining Hall)
Award Winners’ Plenary: 1:15-2:00 (MCDH 242)
Concurrent Sessions 3: 2:00-2:50
Break: 3:00-3:15 (Market Square)
Concurrent Sessions 4: 3:30-4:20
Concurrent Sessions 5: 4:30-5:00
Conclusion: 5:00-5:15 (MCDH 242)
Concurrent Sessions 1:
1A: Dr. Susan C. Graham and Professor Amy J. MacFarlane, UPEI
Gender Non-Conformity and Hetero-normativity in Business Education: What We Learned Through Self-Reflection (MCDH 242)
1B: Dr. Shannan Grant, MSVU, Chelsey Purdy, & Ann Sylliboy
With Two Eyes and One Heart Open: Using Person-focused Science Education to Inspire Creativity, Co-learning and Reconciliation (MCDH 328)
1C: Dr. Carolyn Peach Brown & Dr. Nino Antadze, UPEI
Balancing Hope and Despair in Environmental Studies (MCDH 323)
1D & E: Dr. Leigh-Ann MacFarlane, MSVU
Cultivating Empathy through a Universal Design for Learning Perspective (25 min.) (MCDH 246)
and
Dr. Elizabeth Wells, Mount Allison University
Yes, There is Hope! Strategies Around Marking (20 min.) (MCDH 246)
1F & G: Dr. Peter Foley, UPEI
The Best Things in Life are Free: a Feral Cat Neuter Program on Prince Edward Island and Service Teaching Outside the Curriculum (25 min.) (Duffy 125)
and
Dr. Robert Lapp, Mount Allison University
Practising the Future: Teaching Critical Hope in the Anthropocene Classroom (25 min.) (Duffy 135)
Concurrent Sessions 2:
2A & B:Dr. Greg Doran, UPEI
Promoting Inclusion and Equity in the Classroom (20 min.) (MCDH 242)
and
Dr. David Creelman, UNBSJ
Encouraging Hope and Courage in Individuals within Group Settings
(20 min.) (MCDH 242)
2C: Ms. Patt Olivieri, MSVU
What Can I Do: Critically Cultivating Virtues through Curiosity and Wonder (MCDH 328)
2D: Dr. Scott Comber, Dalhousie
The “Design Thinking” Classroom: Using Empathic Approaches to Address Complex Issues (MCDH 243)
2E & F: Dr. Zhanna Barchuk & Dr. MaryJane Harkins, MSVU
Using Collaborative Conversations to Explore Educational Dichotomies Imbedded in our Everyday Research and Practice (25 min.) (MCDH 246)
and
Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Jewett, Mount Allison University
Hopeful Engagement: Active Learning through an Experience the Arts Course (25 min.) (MCDC 246)
(25 min.)
2G: Dr. Alex Fancy, Mount Allison University
Compassion is Not Enough: Teaching Three Phases of Empathy
Concurrent Sessions 3:
3A: Dr. Andrew Nurse, Mount Allison University
Maintaining Hope: Responding to Teaching Fails (Duffy 135)
3B & C: Dr. Elizabeth Wells, Mount Allison University; Mr. Toni Roberts, Mount Allison University; Dr. Jessica Riddell, Bishops University
The Maple League Teaching and Learning Project (25 min.) (Duffy 135)
and
Dr. Sandra Jack-Malik and Dr. Janet Kuhnke, CBU
Curriculum Practices Currere: Inquiry, Reflexivity and Risk Taking (Duffy 135)
(25 min.)
3D: Dr. Leslie Shumka, Dr. Fiona Black, Dr. Andrew Wilson, & Dr. Michael Fox, Mount Allison University
Hope Critical; Compassion Central: Exploring Compassionate Communities through Humanities & Social Science Curricula (MCDH 328)
3E: Dr. John McLoughlin, UNB
People as Moving Stories (MCDH 246)
3F: Nicole Wadden Garland & Jason Hogan, UPEI
Accommodate or Redesign (MCDH 243)
Concurrent Sessions 4:
4A: Dr. Susan Joudrey, Dalhousie
The “Design Thinking” Classroom: Using Empathic Approaches to Address Complex Issues (MCDH 246)
4B: Dr. Moira A. Law, UNBSJ
The Virtue Driven Life in Large Undergraduate Classes (Duffy 135)
4C: Dr. Stacey L. MacKinnon, UPEI & Dr. Beth Archer-Kuhn, University of Calgary
Developing and Maintaining Trust to Support Intellectual Risk-Taking in Higher Education (MCDH 242)
4D: Michelle Malloy
Hope & Transition: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Change (MCDH 328)
4E & F: Dr. Carla VanBeselaere, Mount Allison University
Understanding How Attendance and Other Factors Affect Student Success (MCDH 243)
(25 min.)
and
Dr. Wendy Shilton, UPEI
Navigating the Abyss in the First-Year Writing Classroom: Integrating Narrative and Reflective Practice into Academic Writing to Foster Wellbeing Across the Curriculum (25 min.) (MCDH 243)
Concurrent Sessions 5 (all sessions 20 min.)
5A: Dr. Anne Marie Ryan, Dalhousie University
Co-Author: Dr. Allison Schmidt, Dalhousie University
Communicating Our (Science) Disciplines to Non-Experts: Importance of Audience and Approach as well as Authenticity and Accuracy (MCDH 246)
5B: Dr. Dany MacDonald, UPEI; Jennifer Newman, UPEI; Dr. Travis Saunders, UPEI
How Can We Ensure that Student-athletes are Having Positive Experiences During their University Careers? (MCDH 243)
5C: Dr. Fred Mason, UNB
Students Writing Exams: Questions of Style and Handwriting Speed (MCDH 328)
5D: Ann Braithwaite, UPEI
Who’s on Your Syllabus? (MCDH 242)