Popular Podagogy - Queen's Faculty of Education Queen's University Faculty of Education

Dr. Nikhil Arora (Physics) and Dr. Nenad Radakovic (Education) join host Chris Carlton to discuss the 2024 total solar eclipse. Listen to find out more about the solar eclipse, what to talk about in your classroom, and more!

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Queen's 2024 Total Solar Eclipse 

 Wondering how to navigate equity in your classroom? Our own Dr. Alana Butler joins us to answer questions like: How do you support diverse students in your classroom without putting the spotlight on them? How do you navigate and address offensive comments in the classroom – and how do you bring it up with the entire class? Alana and Chris talk about representation, focusing on individual strengths (versus deficit), belonging, culturally relevant pedagogy, and so much more! 
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Anti-Racism and Diversity in Teaching Resources from Queen’s Faculty of EducationDisability Resources from Queen’s Faculty of Education Gender Diversity Teaching Resources from Queen’s Faculty of Education Social Justice resources and information from the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario Educator’s Equity Toolkit from the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association Equity from the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation Useful Links for Equity and Inclusive Education from Ontario Teachers’ Federation Dr. Alana Butler joined the Faculty of Education in 2017 and currently teaches both Bachelor of Education students and graduate students. Her research interests include the academic achievement of low-socio economic students, equity, diversity, and inclusion policies and practices from k-12 to higher education, at-risk children/youth and their educational attainment, and multicultural education. Find out more about her on the FookNConversaton Podcast. 

Listen to Dr. Chris DeLuca, Professor of Educational Assessment and Associate Dean - School of Graduate Studies, talk about AI in the classroom - ways to leverage it to enhance student learning, why we shouldn't be afraid of it, and how to get started using AI.

Find out more about Chris DeLuca.

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Leveraging AI to enhance learning Kappan Online ArticleHow can teachers integrate AI within schools? EdCan Online ArticleQueen’s Generative AI Teaching & Learning ResourcesHow to Cite ChatGPTMagic School AI (AI for Teachers)UNESCO: Artificial intelligence in educationUNESCO: ChatGPT and AI in higher education – Quick Start GuideIntelligent Classrooms: What AI Means For The Future Of Education Frobes ArticleEducating in a World of Artificial Intelligence Podcast Harvard Education

On this podcast, we talked with registered social worker Laura Conboy, who is the Mental Health Lead at Limestone District School Board. Laura discusses mental health as a continuum, strategies for mental health in the classroom - both individually and as a group, how to create caring conditions, what a circle of care looks like, how to navigate the tiers of intervention, creating brace spaces, and she provides some really great tips on how to take care of yourself as a teacher. 

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ONE CALL Desk ReferenceGuiding Questions to Build a Mentally Healthy Classroom Community Mental Health Literacy Course for Educators The Third Path OCT Professional Advisory Introduction to Children and Youth Mental Health: Skills for Educators Personal Resiliency Tips  Brene Brown Podcast on Compative Suffering, the 50/50 Myth and Settling the Ball 211 Ontario Good2Talk Laura Conboy is a registered Social Worker and has been working as the Mental Health Lead for the Limestone District School Board since 2017. As part of her role, Laura creates and implements Limestone’s Mental Health and Substance Use Strategy and annual action plans. Prior to coming to Limestone, Laura worked as a hospital social worker in several departments including the emergency department, high-risk obstetrics, and child and adolescent psychiatry. When Laura is not working, she can be found reading, traveling, or learning to play pickleball. 

Lauren Smart-Lampl, Indigenous Teacher Education Program Coordinator and current Master of Education in World Indigenous Studies in Education student, joins us to talk about Truth and Reconciliation in the classroom drawing on her experience teaching in Nova Scotia. She discusses how she talked about residential schools in her classroom, how to indigenize your classroom, the importance of Indigenous languages, and more. 

Head to our website for a full list of resources and to find out more about Lauren. 

Hear from Dr. Patty Douglas, Associate Professor of Disability Studies and Exceptionalities and the inaugural Chair of Student Success and Wellness at the Faculty of Education. In the podcast, Patty discusses how her experience as a classroom teacher gave her a fire in her belly and led her to become a researcher. She discusses what neurodiversity-affirming practices are and what makes it different from the medical model of disability. She discusses the slogan, "nothing about us without us" which comes from disability activism and out of the racial justice movements - and how it can apply to neurodiversity in the classroom. She ends the discussion with some practical tips for implementing neurodiversity-affirming practices in your classroom. 
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Re•Storying Autism - Re•Storying Autism is an interdisciplinary team of makers, artists, researchers, educators, whānau (family and kin), and practitioners transforming deficit understandings of autism and practices in education. Re*Storying Autism Project - Re•Storying Autism in Education (2019-2023) is a multimedia story making project directed by Patty Douglas that brings together Autistic people, family members, educators, practitioners and artists to rethink inclusion in ways that desire the difference of Autism. The overall aim of the Re•Storying Autism project is to transform deficit understandings of Autism in education and create new approaches that centre the perspectives of Autistic people and their/our supporters. The project holds in-person and online storytelling workshops and events in Ontario, Manitoba, Canada, Aotearoa and England.About Patty Douglas: 
Patty Douglas is an Associate Professor of Disability Studies and the inaugural Chair in Student Success and Wellness in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. Her research focuses on reimagining educational practice and care in neurodiversity affirming ways through critical, decolonial and creative research. She is the director of Re•Storying Autism in Education, a multimedia storytelling project that brings together Autistic students, family and educators in Canada, England, and New Zealand to rethink education in ways that that desire the difference of autism. She is currently publishing her book Unmothering Autism: Ethical Disruptions and Affirming Care with UBC Press. Patty is also a former special education teacher in Ontario and British Columbia. She identifies as neurodivergent, and is the mother of two sons, one of whom is autistic.