Part of Food For Thought Series.
Resilience is like gardening—flowers can reach their full potential only if the weeds are kept under control in the garden. We all face the “weeds”, no more so than with the challenges of the last year. Many of us feel busier, more stressed, more anxious yet less certain than ever before.
These sessions will allow you to develop strategies to enter the next year resiliently and positively. The sessions focus on maximizing your sense of well-being: they explore activities and practical tips relating to mental flexibility, critical thinking techniques, mindfulness, emotional navigation, and cognitive filters.
Dr. Cressey will be providing some downloadable manuals should you wish to review activities and read further information on the topic of resilience between webinars or after the webinars are complete., Part of Food for Thought Series
In our current teaching and work environment we are competing against everything from social media to gaming for our students', and sometimes even our colleagues’ attention. It’s time for a refresh of our presentation tools and resources. "Up your game" in the classroom, conference room, boardroom or online, and take advantage of some of the newer features that MS PowerPoint, one of the most ubiquitous tools of the trade, has to offer. Make your presentations more dynamic and attention grabbing without falling into the trap of overwhelming “special effects” or “busy” slides.
The educational video, An Integrative Process, was created using MS PowerPoint, and incorporates narration, sound track, video clips, 3D models, animation and other features that can be brought into the classroom to add interest and “pop” to your presentations.
This Food for Thought session explores ideas around how to support and assess English language learners who have already started in their programs yet are still developing their language competence for diploma-level courses. Recent project funding from the Future Skills Centre has afforded us the opportunity to explore further how to support and assess language learners after they have been accepted into full-time diploma programs.
In this session, we will provide some background, introduce the idea of post-admission diagnostic language assessment and language support, as well as present online language support materials that BCIT students will have access to starting September 2021.
