Have you wondered听what small actions you can听take to听enhance student wellness听in your听remote听courses?听Professor Nancy Heath听and her team听recently听created the resource听Enhancing Student Wellness: Simple Tips for Instructors, in collaboration with听Teaching and Learning Services听and the听Wellness Hub.听The resource describes simple, easy to implement activities that can make a big difference to students in your course.听听
Published on: 12 Nov 2020
A lot of parents are expressing concern with the amount of time their kids are spending on screens, especially during the pandemic since some kids are having to attend school from home. Is all screen time bad for children and teens?
Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology Chair, Dr. Victoria Talwar, was interviewed by CTV News Montreal to give her expert advice.
Watch the video interview here:
Published on: 9 Nov 2020
PhD student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Monica Paraghamian, (supervisor Dr. Bronwen Low) was featured in The Montreal Gazette with her Op-Ed piece, A Safe Environment for Learning Involves More Than Cleaning.
Monica gives us the inside view of the daily stresses being faced by Quebec elementary and high school teachers and provides suggestions for the provincial government.
Published on: 5 Nov 2020
Introducing our new sponsor: , for our Youth Gaming: How much is too much?听 Hosted by Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky.
Published on: 2 Nov 2020
Faculty of Education AV Loans Service Update
Please be aware that that AV Loan Service pickup and return service hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays ONLY from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM in room 328 of the Education Building (3700 MacTavish). To reserve any equipment, please follow these protocols:
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Published on: 2 Nov 2020
Dr. Victoria Talwar, from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, was featured in a Globe and Mail article discussing how much entertainment screen time children should have to balance shared activity time with family members.
Published on: 29 Oct 2020
The Montreal Gazette shines a spotlight on Dr. Adam Dub茅, Dr. Victoria Talwar, and Dr. Jeffrey Derevensky, from ECP, and their upcoming Effective Parenting event.听 Each will give a talk and Q&A session about the challenges of parenting in the digital age.
Dr. Dub茅 will discuss the impact of remote learning and will provide resources that can help children with learning difficulties.
Dr. Talwar will discuss the pros and cons of social media. She will also address cyberbullying and internet surfing.
Published on: 21 Oct 2020
For many parents, figuring out how to get children to disconnect from screens can be a frustrating, daily challenge. 听But is it all bad? How concerned should parents be about excessive screen time and kids? This fall, 成人VR视频鈥檚 Department of Educational Counselling Psychology will be hosting a virtual series of three weekly lectures that will address the best ways for parents to raise kids in the digital age 鈥� all for free.听
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Published on: 15 Oct 2020
World Mental Health Day
October 10, 2020
成人VR视频鈥檚 Faculty of Education is committed to enhancing mental health resilience at 成人VR视频 and beyond.
Learn more about what you can do for stress-management through our materials for students: www.成人VR视频.ca/Education/MentalHealthResilience
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Published on: 9 Oct 2020
成人VR视频 Education's Associate Dean of Research and Innovation and ECP James 成人VR视频 Professor, Nancy Heath, was in the news this week discussing how public gathering restrictions and increased isolation during COVID-19 is affecting the mental health of university students and CEGEP students.
Published on: 2 Oct 2020
Tina Montreuil, of the Department of听Educational & Counselling Psychology, speaks about how teacher shortages are hurting vulnerable students in this Journal M茅tro article.听
She talks about how the pandemic makes the environment for students even more stressful, but the support and support they had before is being deployed in a different way.
Published on: 25 Sep 2020
Le Grand R茅veil : Les jeunes et l鈥檃nxi茅t茅
Dr. Tina Montreuil, Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, has contributed to a documentary entitled "Le Grand R茅veil" produced by Marie-Claude Julien from Radio-Canada on anxiety in youth. She along with other renowned experts on the subject matter comment on various issues surrounding the increasing prevalence of anxiety and other mental health issues in children and adolescents.
Published on: 24 Sep 2020
成人VR视频鈥檚 Faculty of Education and Trafalgar School for Girls are partnering to establish a transformative partnership - the CoLab. A first of its kind in Canada, the CoLab will integrate teacher training, classroom practice and cutting-edge pedagogical research under one roof.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2020
The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, has announced an investment of over $4 million in funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council鈥檚 (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grants to provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making in the public, private or not-for-profit sector.
Published on: 22 Sep 2020
Dr. Kristy Robinson, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, investigates the underlying emotional experiences that affect academic engagement and student motivation in this 成人VR视频 Tribune article on facing the back-to-school blues.
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Published on: 19 Sep 2020
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