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Promoting Student Voices via Feedback in Courses Tuesday, January 30, 2024:
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At the Math Teaching Seminar, I spoke about practices that I employ in my courses at the University of Waterloo to encourage and promote student voices.

Abstract:

One of my teaching goals for the past year was to establish practices in my courses that promote student voices and intentionally gather student feedback throughout the term. As a result, these practices have developed into a cohesive process that: (1) begins before the first day of class, (2) relies on anonymous and known feedback from students (the latter acquired from “Student Reps”),...

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Characterizing and linking two phases of wildland fire lifetimes from the Sioux Lookout District in Ontario by utilizing mixed effects multi-state modelling and joint frailty modelling techniques. Wednesday, July 26, 2023

At the International Environmetrics Society regional meeting in Peterborough, as part of the session "Climate Resilience and Natural Hazards", I was invited to speak about my doctoral research.

Abstract:

Wildland fires can be viewed as having a "lifetime" that consists of several sequential phases. The specific sequence of phases can vary depending on how a fire is responded to (e.g., full suppression or monitoring) by a fire management agency. We investigate the lifetime distributions of two phases for fully suppressed wildland fires from a study...

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Recording Live Lectures: The Pros, Cons, and Everything In-Between Wednesday, July 12, 2023

At the Western Conference on Science Education in London, I co-facilitated and moderated the first contributed debate with Professor Holly Steeves.

Abstract:

Be it resolved: Recording live lectures is a post-pandemic practice that must be considered. During the pandemic, many students became accustomed to having materials - in recorded format - posted on their learning management systems (LMS). Such recordings were either created in advance or during live lectures. But we must ask ourselves how these practices have influenced students' learning and...

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Developing Students' Communication Skills in Statistics Sunday, May 28, 2023

At the Statistical Society of Canada annual meeting in Ottawa, I co-facilitated the statistical education workshop with five other colleagues.

Abstract:

It is critical to equip students with professional skills. In particular, they need to develop effective verbal and written communication skills and it is our responsibility to help them in the process. As statistics educators, we strive to include meaningful relevant course activities that provide our students with opportunities to develop reasoning skills and a deep...

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Learning to Keep Your "Head Above Water" as a New Instructor Thursday, May 11, 2023:
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At the First-Year Math & Stats in Canada (FYMSiC) online one-day conference, I spoke about advice that I received before starting my full-time teaching position.

Abstract:

As a new instructor there are many items that you need to learn, such as your institution's learning management system, other systems, courses, expectations, and so on. This talk will discuss different ways that new instructors can ease their heavy workloads by learning to NOT "re-invent the wheel" when teaching a new course for the first time.

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Training Graduate Teaching Assistants on Active Learning Sunday, December 4, 2022

At the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) Winter Meeting in Toronto, as part of the session "Community Building in Instructor Training" I spoke about research into training graduate TAs on active learning.

Abstract: 

One important and, at times, overlooked component of instructor training is the training of our graduate students in their roles as graduate teaching assistants. Although decades of research into evidence-based active learning activities are regularly shared between and practiced by instructors, this is not always introduced...

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