First, Jarod has created a new email list serve for our clinical area faculty and staff. Please use this one going forward!
Second, I am wondering what your thoughts are on submitting a clinical area proposal to the CATL SoTL Seed Project Grant:
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Support Fund provides opportunities for professors, instructors, and librarians to meaningfully engage in projects that enhance the learning experience and success of UM students.
Traditionally, our class sizes are quite small in clinical psychology and provide an intimate learning space for students to engage and practice clinical skills in assessment and intervention. With our expansion, doubling our cohort size, as well as our courses
that are offered to both school psychology and clinical psychology graduate students, the structure, processes, and practices of our clinical training will be changing. In my view, it could be wonderful to collect data from students and faculty regarding their
learning and engagement experiences, as we move forward with changes. It could also be helpful to scan and survey existing Canadian U15 graduate programs in clinical psychology to better-understand their cohort and class sizes and approaches to teaching and
mentoring.
Applications are due March 31 and the maximum amount awarded is $6,000.
I would be glad to take the lead on this application if there was interest in exploring this from an area perspective.
Kristin Reynolds, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Pronouns: She/Her
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research Affiliate, Centre on Aging
Scientist, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba
Director, Health Information Exchange Lab:
https://healthinfoexchangelab.ca/
P516 Duff Roblin Building, 190 Dysart Road
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2
Email: Kristin.Reynolds@umanitoba.ca
Phone: (204) 474-8260
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We respect the Treaties that were made on these territories, we acknowledge the harms and mistakes of the past, and we dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with Indigenous
communities in a spirit of Reconciliation and collaboration.
Get ready for February: Inclusive learning, GTP registration, and more!
February is Inclusive Education month, and we’d like to highlight a group of offerings which foster inclusive education at UM. These workshops and series share
practices that support the evolving learning environment and provide faculty with opportunities to share ideas and strategies to enhance inclusion at UM.
Pedagogies
of Care: Cultivating Liberatory Spaces (February 4) identifies
key elements of relational and emancipatory teaching approaches that foster inclusivity and empowerment in the classroom, while
Pedagogies
of Care: Universal Design (February 25) will offer tools for ensuring accessibility in learning activities, promoting inclusive, engaging environments for all students. On February 6,
the Teaching
and Learning Research Colloquium Series: Fostering Success explores basic psychological needs for students with learning disabilities, and how the satisfaction or frustration of these needs plays a role in postsecondary
success. These sessions are great opportunities to deepen your understanding and contribute to an inclusive learning environment at the University of Manitoba.
Save the date: The Graduate Teaching Program registration opens on February 4
The Graduate Teaching Program is specifically designed for current UM graduate students who are either new to teaching or new to teaching in
Canada. This fully online asynchronous program provides an excellent opportunity to build a strong foundation in teaching knowledge and effective instructional practices.
For more details, visit
Graduate
Teaching Program (GTP) or read our recent
UM
Today story.
Teaching Skills Program to give you the tools for a changing learning environment
Have you ever been in this situation? A student joins your office during office hours. They seem nervous and struggle to explain what is happening.
They are trying to pull up files on their laptop or shuffling through papers. You want to connect with them to help them, but something is not clicking.
The Centre created the Teaching Skills Program to help practice for these types of challenging situations. More than a 1-hour workshop, it includes
built-in skill development with virtual-reality sessions and a reflective sharing session. If you are committed to being effective in teaching or mentoring graduate students, it is worth the effort. The program provides an
immersive
learning experience that will help you prepare for challenging office hour student chats and beyond.
Join us for the
Virtual
Reality-Based Teaching Skills Program – Effective Communication session on Wednesday, February 5, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 pm. Watch for future sessions of the Teaching Skills Program available on
The
Centre’s workshop page.
Discover new teaching and learning journeys in 2025
We are offering several workshops or series to help faculty and graduate students enhance their teaching practices and create exceptional student experiences. These
workshops include Small
Shifts: Significant Gains, focusing on micro improvements,
Universal
Design for Learning in Practice, offering strategies to reduce learning barriers, and the
Graduate
Teaching Program, designed to build foundational teaching skills.
To learn more,
read
the full UM today story.
Exploring Experiential Learning
Experiential learning is becoming more common in educational institutions as it gives students the opportunity to apply skills and ideas in a real-world situation
where they too play an active role. Discover more about experiential learning in our upcoming workshops.
Double the insights: The Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN) Speaker Series strikes twice in February
Are you looking for some professional development opportunities related to academic integrity? The MAIN speaker series has two talks this month
that will address your academic integrity related interests.
Applications are open for the SoTL Seed Project and the SoTL Major Project
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Support Fund provides opportunities for professors, instructors, and librarians to meaningfully engage in projects that enhance the learning experience and success of UM students.
For more information check out the
UM
Today story, and access the application form on the
Provost’s
intranet site.
Upcoming workshops
- Tuesday,
February 4 - Experiential Learning in the Arts and Humanities
- Tuesday,
February 4 - Pedagogies of Care: Cultivating Liberatory Spaces
- Tuesday,
February 4 - Small Shifts, Significant Gains: February Session
- Wednesday,
February 5 - Virtual Reality-Based Teaching Skills Program - Effective Communication: How to Have Better Conversations with Your Students
- Thursday,
February 6 - Teaching and Learning Research Colloquium Series: Session 2
- Wednesday,
February 12 - Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN) Speaker Series, Session 4
- Thursday,
February 13 - Experiential Learning Community of Practice Brown Bag Conversations: AI Powered Critical Reflection
- Tuesday,
February 18 - Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN) Speaker Series, Session 5
- Tuesday,
February 25 - Pedagogies of Care: Universal Design - Curb Cutting the Academy
- Thursday,
February 27 - Open Educational Resources: What, Why, and How
- Thursday,
February 27 - Universal Design for Learning in Practice: Clarify the Meaning and Purpose of the Goals
Look for all of our workshop selections on
The
Centre’s workshop page.
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