Welcome to the Faculty of Education

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Welcome to the Faculty of Education
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• FACULTY OF EDUCATION
• Orientation 2008-2009
• Introduction Welcome
• Dr. Spencer Boudreau
• Associate Dean,
• Teaching, Learning and Students

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FACULTY OF EDUCATIONOrientation 2008-2009

• Dr. Hélène Perrault
• Dean, Faculty of Education

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• FACULTY OF EDUCATION
• Orientation 2008-2009
• Faculty Departments
• Department of Integrated Studies in Education
• Room 244, Education Building
• B.Ed. Kindergarten Elementary
• B.Ed. Kindergarten Elementary (Jewish Studies
  Option)
• B.Ed. Secondary
• B.Ed. TESL
• B.Ed. TFSL Joint program with Université de
  Montréal
• B.Ed. Music
• Concurrent B.Ed./B.Music
• Concurrent B.Ed./B.Sc.
• Undergraduate Program Director Dr. Caroline
  Riches

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• FACULTY OF EDUCATION
• Orientation 2008-2009
• Faculty Departments (contd)
• Department of Kinesiology Physical Education
• Room 216, Currie Gym, 475 Pine Ave.
• B.Ed. Physical Health Education
• B.Sc. (Kinesiology)
• Undergraduate Program Director, Dr. Gordon Bloom
• Undergraduate Academic Advisor, Nada Abu-Merhy
• Department of Educational Counselling
  Psychology
• School of Information Studies

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• FACULTY OF EDUCATION
• Orientation 2008-2009
• Central Service Areas at the Faculty
• Student Affairs Office, Room 243,
• Christine Zilberman, Senior Student Affairs
  Officer
• Career Services,
• Antonella Nizzola (for B. Ed. students), Room 243
• Janice Tester, (for B.Sc. Students)
• Career and Placement Services, 3600 McTavish,
  Suite 2100, Brown Building
• Office of Student Teaching, Room 431A,
• Fiona Benson, Director
• Education Library, First Floor,
• Sara Holder, Librarian

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FACULTY OF EDUCATIONOrientation 2008-2009

• Office of Student Teaching
• Room 431A, Education Building
• Fiona J. Benson - Director
• Kate Hooton - kate.hooton_at_mcgill.ca (TFSL, ESL,
  Music, general info.)
• Diana Grafton - diana.grafton_at_mcgill.ca
  (Secondary, Phys Ed.)
• Maria Iacovelli - maria.iacovelli_at_mcgill.ca
  (K/Elementary)
• Please note
• You can request a placement in a French school
• You can request a specific school
• Do not make your own arrangements with a school
• http//www.mcgill.ca/ost/

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FACULTY OF EDUCATIONOrientation 2008-2009

• The Student Affairs Office (SAO)
• Room 243, Education Building
• Central Office
• General academic information and advice
• Academic records
• Registration
• Transfer credits
• Inter-faculty transfer
• Re-admission
• Scholarships and Awards
• Graduation
• Supplemental and deferred exams
• Career Services etc

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FACULTY OF EDUCATION Orientation 2008-2009

• Student Affairs Team
• If you have a question and you do not know
  where to go, ask someone in the Student
  Affairs Office.
• Christine Zilberman, Student Affairs Officer
• Antonella Nizzola, Career Services
• Joyce Gaul
• Patricia Beauregard
• Patricia Jackson
• Colin McCance
• Jennifer Element
• Mandana Bassiri

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• ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
• Handbook on Student Rights Responsibilities
• Doing Honest Work in College, Charles Lipson
• CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
• Faculty of Education programs have professional
  components and
• field placements. In all aspects of any program,
  on campus and off,
• students are expected to demonstrate ethical,
  responsible, and
• professional behavior in the performance of their
  duties, to conduct
• themselves in accordance with the law (e.g. Youth
  Protection), and to
• meet the expectations of schools, boards and
  other host institutions
• receiving them for field placements. This applies
  to all aspects of
• professional conduct, including but not limited
  to respect for persons,
• property and confidentiality, appropriate dress
  and punctuality.
• failure to meet these expectations, regardless of
  performance in
• courses or other formal program requirements,
  will be taken into

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• FACULTY OF EDUCATION
• Orientation 2008-2009
• Faculty Policies
• Full Time studies
• minimum of 12 credits per term
• Attendance
• courses have attendance requirements, check
  course outline
• English Language Requirement
• must register for EDEC 215 in the Fall term (0
  credit exam)
• except B.Ed TFSL, TESL and B.Sc (Kinesiology)
• Wednesday, December 3, 2008
• More info. to follow end of September on SAO
  website
• Scholarships Awards

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FACULTY OF EDUCATION Orientation
2008-2009

• Important Websites
• Student Affairs
• www.mcgill.ca/edu-sao
• University Student Web Site
• www.mcgill.ca/students
• Student Services at McGill
• www.mcgill.ca/studentservices

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FACULTY OF EDUCATIONOrientation 2008-2009

• Dr. Elizabeth Wood
• Associate Dean, Academic Programs

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DR. ELIZABETH WOODS ORIENTATION ADDRESS It is
an honor for me to be here today, and to see all
your wonderful faces teachers of the future. As
a former McGill Education student, and now
professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of
Education I would like to wish you my heartfelt
welcome. So here we are - the first day of
school for us all as teachers and future
teachers. You will be mentor, leader, role
model, facilitator, and liaison among many. Your
work will have an impact, I promise you that. You
will open doors of wonder through knowledge.
People will look up to you and will ask you to
serve many roles. It will be tremendously
challenging, and yet the rewards, I believe, will
triumph, will soften any memory of struggle. I
would like to invite us all to remember one
special teacher one who has changed our lives
for the better. Someone who is still in your
heart today. I think of my kindergarten teacher,
who wisely celebrated the learning inherent in
play, or my grade 4 and 5 teacher who was my best
friends mother. (I thought she was the luckiest
little girl in the world to have a teacher for a
mum.) My high school mentors were my coaches on
sports teams, or the teachers who convinced me I
was smart enough for university when I didnt
believe it could possibly be true. Our teachers
make all the difference. They are true
intellectual, creative, political, and spiritual
leaders. In fact, we are all here today in great
part because of our teachers, because they
trusted and valued us, as we did them. Some say
that to teach is to touch a life forever.
Please remember that while this touch can be
strong, encouraging, supportive and celebratory,
it can also be damaging. And, yes, difficult
situations also teach. The impact of both can be
equally powerful. As experiences help you shape
and expand and weave your pedagogy theory and
practice you will evolve as an educator. I
wish you continued joy, commitment, and
enthusiasm in what you do. I wish you a long
career not 25 times the same first year, but 25
- even 30 - unique years of rich and rewarding
growth for you and your students. If you are
like me and many of those educators that our will
encounter in your days at McGill, you will learn
more from your students than they have learned
from you. We celebrate that. But there is
something else that I would like to say. It is
my hope that you will not only excel in your
academic work, but also that your experience here
will be meaningful. That you will continue to
grow as a person. That you will want to stay
connected to your classmates and professors, and
to McGill, long after you graduate. I hope that
you will see this Faculty as providing a safe
place to grow. It is my dream that your time
here will not only be about academic excellence,
about assignments and grades but that it will
also constitute a pathway that will bring you
closer and closer to who you are in the process
of becoming. It is my wish that your education
degree will be about continually learning to see
the bigger picture that it will be about making
the world a better place. Id like to take just
a minute now to talk about that. First, lets
look briefly at the vision statement that guides
most of your programs.
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION Vision
Statement

• Bachelor of Education Programs, DISE,
• As teachers and learners we are committed to
• understanding education in its fullest sense as a
  collective endeavor that supports the integration
  of theoretical, practical and experiential
  knowledge, in both formal and non-formal
  environments
• assuring development of deep knowledge and
  understanding in discipline area specializations
  
• fostering a culture of questioning, critical
  reflection and the construction of professional
  knowledge leading to excellence in the field
• developing communities of teacher education that
  embrace collaboration and that model responsive,
  innovative and effective teaching practices

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FACULTY OF EDUCATION Vision Statement (contd)

• strengthening an awareness of the fullness and
  complexity of the whole person, and of the
  implications of this for teaching and learning
• deepening our inquiry to extend below the surface
  of issues emerging from daily practice
• promoting advocacy for change in response to the
  diverse needs of communities in local and global
  contexts, through a sustained commitment to
  social justice as a process
• engaging in this work in an ethos of care and
  concern for humanity.

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DR. ELIZABETH WOODS ORIENTATION
ADDRESS (CONTD) You can see that this
statement tries to capture that bigger picture.
This goal is also evident in the Facultys
commitment to broader social concerns. The
FEDEC committee (the Faculty of Education
Diversity and Equity Committee), for example, is
striving to foster in the Faculty an environment
that is safe, welcoming of difference, and
supportive of diversity and equity. We want every
student and professor here to feel welcome, to
feel valued in who they are, regardless of race,
culture, sexual orientation, age or physical
ability. FEDEC has, for example, been involved in
organizing the Welcome day Community Connections
Event planned for this coming September 11th.
There, community groups seeking volunteers will
be invited to the faculty so students can meet
and talk with them. Signing up to volunteer will
provide an opportunity for you to obtain precious
experience in a community learning environment.
Our goal in this is to foster in our students and
faculty recognition that education (and learning)
occurs in schools AS WELL AS in broader contexts,
and that schools and communities are connected.
We learn from and can give back to both.
Please watch for the posters around the faculty
and note the Community Connections in your
calendar for Sept 11th. There would be lots more
to say, but time flies and so - in closing - I
would like to wish you a wonderful concluding
section in your rich Orientation day. I hope that
you leave here feeling that Yes you have made
the right decision. And I wish you all the best
in your journey. We will be there with you. Thank
you.
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Community Connections in Education Get involved
and make a difference!

• Agence Ometz
• Big Brothers and Big Sisters
• Centennial Academy
• CSSS de la Point-de-lile
• Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters
  (Hippy)
• Native Friendship Centre
• Office for students with disabilities (McGill)
• UNICEF
• South Asian Womens Community Centre
• YMCA Tandem

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• FACULTY OF EDUCATIONOrientation 2008-2009
• Annual Welcome Info Day and BBQ
• Thursday, September 11, 2008
• Education Lobby and Terrace
• 1000-1400hrs
• Community Connections in Education
• 1400-1700hrs
• Academic Advisors on site
• Free Lunchtime BBQ
• Prizes to be won

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• My heart is singing for joy this morning. A
  miracle has happened! The light of understanding
  has shone upon my little pupils mind and behold
  all things are changed!
• Annie Sullivan
• This is the true joy in life, the being used
  for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty
  one.
• George Bernard Shaw

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FACULTY OF EDUCATIONOrientation 2008-2009

• Questions and Answers!

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FACULTY OF EDUCATIONOrientation 2008-2009
Thank you Group Leaders!
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• FACULTY OF EDUCATION
• Orientation 2008-2009
• EDUCATION
• UNDERGRADUATE
• STUDENT SOCIETY

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FACULTY OF EDUCATION Orientation 2008-2009

• Education Undergraduate Society
• 2008-2009 Executive
• President Erica Rennie
• VP Communication Nigel Jackson
• Co-VP External Catia Valela and Kristan Thatcher
  
• VP Finance Meghan Dalton
• VP Internal Jessica Macri
• Co-VP Academic Kelly Tams and Mitchell Miller
• Secretary Adam Cox-Twardowski
• SSMU Rep Claudia Gucciardi

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EDUS Presentation

• EDUS items
• J grade
• D grade
• C Grade
• S/U grade
• Lockers
• Wait List
• Study Abroad
• Transcripts
• Emergency Contact Info
• Add drop deadlines
• McGill Communication
• Field Experience