Dr. Sheryl Smith-Gilman, DISE Faculty Lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Teacher Education Programs, was recently interviewed by LEARN Quebec on their podcast, ShiftED. Dr. Smith-Gilman discusses how our future educators have been dealing with their pre-service schooling during the pandemic and the changing educational landscape in Quebec, including online learning and the MEQ's new pre-school program.

Two students from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education were selected for the Pathy Foundation Fellowship which provides community-focused experiential learning opportunities for exceptional young leaders to become active and effective change-makers. Eleven McGill fellows will join peers from St. Francis Xavier University, Queen’s University, Bishop’s University, and University of Ottawa, undergoing comprehensive training at Coady International Institute, and will receive up to $40,000 in funding to implement a community project.

According to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the world’s largest international higher education network, McGill’s Faculty of Education has ranked 26th in the world for the organization’s 2021 university subject rankings. Each of the subject rankings is compiled using four sources. The first two of these are QS’s global surveys of academics and employers, which are used to assess institutions’ international reputation in each subject.

Participants needed for research in “Faculty instructors’ academic literacy support for international students”  

McGill University researchers are looking for volunteers to take part in a study examining University Course Instructors’ experience with and support for international students who are non-native English speakers.

Philip S. S. Howard, from the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, was recently interviewed in a CTV News article about Canadian Black history and the importance of adding it into the school curriculum, but warns that it should not be a way to avoid confronting what needs to be changed. 

“That takes actually identifying and really owning up to the anti-Blackness that is within the founding logics of these entities.”

Howard emphasized the importance of concrete steps that need to be taken by institutions, rather than focusing on Black History Month celebrations.

Inuit communities still lack access to high-speed internet

by Catey Fifield of The McGill Daily

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed January 24 as the International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. The theme of the 3^rd International Day of Education is ‘Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation’. Now is the time to power education by stepping up collaboration and international solidarity to place education and lifelong learning at the center of the recovery. (UNESCO)