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STLHE 2016 SAPES

Sheilagh Grills

Brandon University
Learning Skills Specialist
Brandon, Manitoba

Sheilagh Grills is a learning skills specialist in Student Services at Brandon University. As a member of the Academic Skills Centre, she helps students learn transferable, foundational skills through non-credit learning skills workshops and individual instruction, and teaches an interdisciplinary Success Course for first-year students.

17:30 EDT

Opening Reception (Sponsored by eXplorance) and Registration Atrium, Physics & Astronomy Building

07:30 EDT

Registration North Campus Building (NCB 101)

08:30 EDT

Plenary I: QUESTions Instead of Answers: A Process-based Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century (Sponsored by University Affairs) North Campus Building (NCB 101)David Helfand Welcoming Remarks and Introduction of 2016 3M Teaching Fellows and Remarks North Campus Building (NCB 101)

10:00 EDT

Registration Mustang Lounge (UCC)

10:40 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

11:15 EDT

CON01.10b - Engaging First-Year Students through Learning Skills Workshops UCC 65Sheilagh Grills

12:15 EDT

Lunch (Sponsored by Magna Publications) Community Room and The Wave (UCC)

13:30 EDT

CON02.09 - Learning to ‘fail’ for success: developing student Mindsets to promote resilience, tenacity and effective learning. UCC 63Lindsay Davies • Udaramati Melanie Pope

14:20 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

14:45 EDT

CON03.04 - Direct Instructions (DI) versus Productive Failure (PF) – Best practices for interactive in-class activities. UCC 56Sunita Chowrira • Karen Smith

15:45 EDT

CON04.09 - Student Centered Teaching: When the Students Become the Teachers UCC 63Ann Bigelow • David Creelman • Veselin Jungic • Jessica Riddell • Jin-Sun Yoon • Étienne Côté • Sara Harris • Steve Joordens • Peter Ostafichuk • Pamela Toulouse

08:45 EDT

Plenary II - Empowering Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning (Sponsored by Presenters Podium) North Campus Building (NCB 101)Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens

09:50 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

10:30 EDT

CON05.16 - Supporting the Use of Academic Analytics to Improve Teaching and Learning Weldon Library 121 (Teaching Support Centre)Brad Wuetherick • Don Fiander • Sandy Walde

11:30 EDT

CON06.08 - What do we know about student participation in activities that develop transferable skills? UCC 61Angie L. Miller • Allison Brckalorenz • Thomas Nelson Laird CON06.11 - First-Year Transition to University as an Intellectual Journey UCC 67Shelagh Crooks • Esther Enns

12:30 EDT

Lunch (Sponsored by Magna Publications) Community Room and The Wave (UCC)

15:00 EDT

CON08.06a - Student and Faculty Experiences of an Academic Foundations Course UCC 59Judy Eaton • Jennifer Long • David Morris

09:00 EDT

CON10.08 - Teaching 'em how to fish: Scaffolding student autonomy UCC 61Allyson Skene

10:50 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)