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Student Experiences: A Master’s Experience of the Dual-degree Program

July 23, 2018
By: Jiawen Fan

My name is Jiawen Fan. I am an international student from China and an MEd candidate currently enrolled in Dual Master of Education Degree Program. I can’t believe it is close to the end of my journey. My time here at Queen’s has been invaluable and enriching.

Initially, I really didn’t know what to expect as I am one of the first group of students to go through the program, and it was slightly challenging to get used to the changes both academically and emotionally. Classroom interaction is much more intense compared to the class back in China. One of the challenges that I confronted with is the doubt of my abilities to keep up in fast-paced discussions and to express myself in cooperative activities, but students from my class are always nice by slowing down their pace of speech with patience and encouraging me to voice out my opinions.

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Student Experiences: With Queen's Alternative Practicum the sky is your limit

May 17, 2018
By: Laura Schindel

What I love most about the Queen's Alternative Practicum experience is how vague and broad it is, "something educational outside the typical classroom setting," the sky is your limit. Being in the Artist in Community Education (ACE) Program, I just had to do something that involved some art. Our instructors told us to dream big because this was an opportunity to do something or to have an experience we always imagined having.

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Student Experiences: Studying and Teaching Abroad at the BISC!

February 6, 2018
By: Maysam Abu Khreibeh

Hi there! My name is Maysam Abu Khreibeh and I am currently a second-year B.Ed. Teacher Candidate in the Intermediate/Senior Divisions studying Global Development Studies with a concentration in History and First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Studies. I had the once in a lifetime opportunity to experience learning and teaching at the Bader International Study Center (BISC), in the UK for my very first year of university. From weekly practicum experiences in many different classrooms to experiential learning opportunities and traveling adventures, the BISC taught me the true meaning of self-directed, immersive and meaningful learning which every aspiring teacher should strive to have!

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Math-E-Motion: an embodied activity for improving spatial skills

Researchers from around the world have made efforts to improve students’ performance in STEM disciplines. However, emerging countries like Brazil still occupy very low ranking positions in global exams such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). One of the explanations might be students’ substantial deficiency in spatial skills. In fact, the National Curricular Parameters, an official educational guideline issued by the Brazilian government, does not even mention spatial skills. In my master's thesis, I have designed an embodied cognition activity called Math-e-motion that aims to improve students’ spatial thinking. This activity is carried out on a tiled floor made with cheap material and involves reasoning about cartesian coordinates. Preliminary results have shown that Math-e-motion can improve perspective changing, which is an essential skill to several fields of STEM disciplines.

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Eloisa Neri de Oliveira

Eloisa Neri de Oliveira left sunny San Paulo, Brazil to come to chilly Kingston in February. Although the weather here was cold, she was very excited to be here and have the opportunity to work on her Master’s research with Dr. John Kirby.

While researchers from around the world have made efforts to improve students’ performance in STEM disciplines, students in Brazil had very low test results in STEM fields. Eloisa wanted to look into spatial skills and the impact they might have on students’ performance in STEM testing. 

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Xu Jian

Xu Jian, a PhD candidate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has come to Queen’s to work with Dr. Liying Cheng on his dissertation that focuses on language testing and assessment, and language learning motivation.

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Muhammed Yaqoob

Muhammed Yaqoob, a PhD student in Education at the Northern University in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, has come to the Queen’s University to work on his dissertation that focuses on the relationship of student’s attitudes, anxiety and their achievements in statistics at the higher secondary level (Grades 11 and 12) in Pakistan with Dr. John Kirby.

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Building Bridges: An International Seminar on Arts Education and Sustainable Development

How does arts education fit into global plans for education, culture and sustainable development?  On Wednesday, March 8 the UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning and Canadian Network for Arts and Learning will host Dr. Ernst Wagner, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and executive coordinator of the The UNESCO Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, for a seminar discussion. Dr. Wagner has been a key leader in international research in arts education and is one of the architects of the newly approved UNESCO UNITWIN Network in Arts Education for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Wagner’s brief presentation will be followed by complimentary refreshments and conversation.

Please join us!

When: 11 am, Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Where: Vernon Ready Room, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University

For further information, please contact ben.bolden@queensu.ca

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