Teaching, training, facilitating

For 20+ years, I have worked in education as a high school teacher, university instructor, tutor, Adult Education specialist, writing consultant, communications trainer, and workshop facilitator.

I specialize in working collaboratively in online spaces with people who prefer this mode. You’ll find my philosophy HERE.

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Post-secondary teaching and specialization (Certificate Program in University Teaching and Learning).

Courses taught:

  • graduate research methods in urban studies (specialization: qualitative)

  • urban-related topics, including: urban green space provision and use, role of street trees in health of cities, urban food security, and urban infrastructure

  • object biographies: methodologies to study “things”

  • writing: moving between writing for academic and general audiences

    Courses developed:

  • Write-minded (undergraduate, interdisciplinary)

  • Cemeteries: Life in the City (undergraduate, geography)

  • Urban Dirt (continuing education)

  • Object Biographies: The secret lives of “things” (continuing education)

Bridging Secondary and Post-Secondary through FASS in the Class

Developed and deliver presentations/workshops to introduce high school students to topics they might encounter in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences:

  • All Lined Up: How and Why Humans and Non-Humans Wait

  • Citizen Participation in City-Making

  • Dumped! An Exploration of Landfills and Dump Sites

  • Environmental Stewardship, Urban Infrastructure, and Magical Thinking

  • Follow-the-Thing, Learn about Humans

  • Gentrification in Global Cities

  • Life on the Front Lawn

  • Tales of Rubbish Thinkers

  • Urban Space, Surveillance Regimes, and Social Control

  • What do we mean when we talk about Street Trees?

Secondary experience and specialization (certification: Ontario and BC)

  • English, French, Spanish language, composition, and literary analysis

    • including AP and Ontario Academic Credit (Grade 13), and French immersion

  • Human geography and social justice

  • Writer’s craft, children’s literature, and journalism

  • Workplace safety

Coaching experience (secondary students)

  • Debate (bilingual: French, English – 8 years), public speaking (bilingual: French, English), recitation (French: Les voix de la poésie)

  • Improv theatre, collaborative storytelling (8 years)

Facilitating and Training experience

  • Roundtable editing: facilitating peer editing groups to develop collaborative writing and editing skills

  • Communications: training non-profit staff in basic social media posting for promotion of public events

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