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THIS SUMMER! Plant Canada 2024 Workshop - Mon Jul 8th 11:15-13:00 in Winnipeg (Conference Website)
Developing a Community of Practice for Plant Biology Teaching
David Bird (Mount Royal), Lauren Erland (UFV), Miranda Meents (SFU), Robin Young (UBCO)

No registration required for conference attendees!
Join us to discuss the ins and outs, ups and downs, and tips and tricks for teaching plant biology. You’ll leave the session with new ideas for your teaching and new resources and connections to help make your ideas a reality. Beyond that, you’ll be part of a team laying the groundwork and planting the seeds for an online community of like-minded colleagues across the country who believe in plant education and supporting the people who teach it. Participants of all career and experience levels are welcome!

Topics of discussion may include:

• Balancing teaching and research as an early career researcher
• Teaching genetics using plants
• Activities and resources for teaching labs
• Building student's observational skills
• Strategies for promoting plant appreciation in class and beyond
• Finding, curating and building open educational resources
• Alternative grading strategies

• Teaching Careers in Higher Education, Apr 25 2024
  Miranda Meents (SFU) and Solmaz Irani (TRU) held an online workshop for graduate students, post docs and other early career members to explore opportunities for teaching-related careers in higher education and tips and strategies for building experience to get these jobs.
  
  

• Workshop on Classroom Management
  Canadian Plant Biotech Meeting, Kingston, ON June 2016
  The focus of the workshop was on classroom management. I would like to thank our panelists for their participation in the workshop; Lacey Samuels (UBC), Shelley Hepworth (Carelton), and Jake Stout (U of M).
  
  We addressed how to handle classroom situations with various topics as prompts and each panelist giving their own experience and advice on how to handle various student situations. One topic which came up most frequently were the topic of exams and how to talk and act with students in regards to when they are writing exams, how you discuss exam results with students and how this is a very sensitive subject for a professor to deal with.

• Plagiarism: Let's shed some light on the dark subject
  Education workshop at the 2013 CSPB annual meeting
  Madoka Gray-Mitsumune (Concordia U)
  
  Does it happen in your classroom? Do your students really know what constitutes plagiarism? Chances are that anywhere between 5 to 15 % of your students are submitting plagiarized works. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unknowingly. How do you detect plagiarism? How do you deal with the large spectrum of not-straightforward cases of plagiarism? How do we teach students? What should the sanctions be? These questions will be addressed in the workshop. Your input is welcome
  [Slide file] [CSPB plagiarism faculty survey results ] [ CSPB plagiarism student survey results] 

• 2012 Education Symposium at the CSPB annual meeting
• Emily Indriolo (U Toronto) An introduction of Planting Science An opportunity for education and outreach for CSPP [Slide file] [ The Planting Science website]
• Shona Ellis (UBC) Integrating Sustainability into a Biology Program: a work in progress.  
• Santokh Sinh (UBC) Evaluating the impact of new instructional strategies and assessment methods on student learning in an undergraduate plant physiology laboratory. Lacey Samuels (UBC) First Year Seminar in Science: an introduction to the writing and culture of science.