PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

My Professional Development and training

September 2020

TEACH MENTAL HEALTH LITERACY, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ONLINE

Course Objectives

To provide junior high and secondary school teachers across Canada with an evidence based, student appealing, reliable and easy-to-use information to help promote understanding of mental health and mental illness in the classroom.
To decrease stigma related to mental illness.
To provide content and resources for teachers to help students with a basic understanding of brain function to support better understanding of both mental health and mental illness.
To equip teachers with the knowledge to teach youth what they need to know in order to identify when they, a friend or family member is experiencing mental health problems or mental illness.
To provide teachers with skills to help young people understand that seeking help for mental health problems is healthy and important, and to help them learn when and where to seek help as well as to develop competencies to be used when interacting with health care providers.
To reinforce the importance of positive mental health, understand the purpose of the stress-response in helping students become resilient and to develop effective and adaptation strengthening ways of coping with stress.
To provide information to teachers about treatment of mental disorders, recovery from mental illness, and help develop the knowledge and competencies that their students can use to help themselves keep mentally healthy.
To improve mental health outcomes in young people and to enhance school connectedness and healthy social interactions.

February 2021

CAPE BRETON VICTORIA REGIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION

PD for Google Classroom, Google Read & Right, Google Meets and Breakout Rooms, Flip Grid, Turning PDF's into Digital Worksheets, Google Forms, Tech Integration Tools available, Book Creator and Nearpod.

October 2022

ATEC CONFERENCE

Attended Conferences at ATEC in Halifax, NS

Bill Carr - Living with Resilience: The Art of Bouncing Back
Carmel Farahbakhsh - Building Soft Landings for 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth
Adam Gardiner - Low Arousal Approach

WORKSHOPS

Workshop: Creating a Conversation: LGBTQ2S+ Education and Representation in the Classroom

Going over the LGBTQ2S+ pronouns, inclusion, and professional behavior in regards to approaching students who identify as someone within the LGBTQ2S+ community.

SPECIALTY COURSES

September 2020

PRE-PRACTICUM PROFESSIONALISM

Department Mission Statement

The mission of the Department of Education at Cape Breton University (CBU) is to prepare educators who are responsible professionals committed to the learning of all students. CBU provides both pre-service and continuing education programs focused on developing teachers, through current research and best practices, to be skillful, reflective practitioners. The CBU Department of Education is dedicated to providing instruction and experience to develop critical, creative, and caring teachers committed to lifelong learning and professional growth.
A core focus for the Education programs at Cape Breton University is Education for Sustainability (EfS) which is inclusive of the three realms of sustainability – environment, society and economy. This focus seeks to address content, context, pedagogy, global issues and local priorities. EfS supports the values of interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility, social justice and holistic perspectives required to participate in society and to live sustainably and well. By integrating EfS principles throughout our education programs, teachers and teacher candidates will engage in learning designed to cultivate: critical thinking, creativity, knowledge, and skills to actively address challenges with sustainable solutions.

Acknowledgement

The Department of Education at CBU acknowledges that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaw and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) people first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaw and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations.

Series Objective

This series is designed to better prepare pre-service teachers for the professional aspects and implications in the teaching profession.

Academic Integrity (portfolio)

Students are asked to review the section on ‘plagiarism’ found in the ‘current student’ section of Cape Breton University’s web site.

Professional Conduct

This being the Pre-Practicum Professionalism Series, it is expected that students demonstrate the highest levels of respect and integrity toward attendance, presenters and fellow colleagues. This includes punctuality. Students are expected to be dressed in professional teaching attire (from the waist up) during the participation in this series.