D-LITE Event: Psychological Safety & Belonging: Student Perspectives & Experiences
We Belong Together Workshop Series Brought to you by the D-LITE Belong Cluster.
Friday, April 5, 2024
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
This workshop is hybrid
- Halifax campus (B400, Killam Library)
- Online via Teams (link will be sent when you complete the registration form)
We invite faculty and staff to explore the principles of psychological safety and belonging in the classroom shared through the lens of student perspectives and experiences. As students, our presenters understand the important role educators play when it comes to the wellbeing of their students, and hope to bring attention to how educators can foster a safe and welcoming classroom environment. One important aspect of leadership is to create a shared vision, and advocating for a psychologically safe classroom environment can help professors and students reach a shared vision of an ideal classroom learning community. Our speakers:
- Gloria Piazza is finishing up her fourth year of a BSc in medical sciences. She is interested in advocating for psychologically safe classrooms thanks to the information she learned in a leadership in science class she took last semester.
- Youna McGowan is in her fourth year as a major in Neuroscience at Dalhousie. She is passionate about mental health awareness, and is currently working on an Honours project dedicated to developing a non-pharmaceutical intervention for anxiety disorders. She is also completing a certificate in Science Leadership and Communication, with the aim of advocating for mental health awareness in her community.
- Katarzyna Farrell is a 2020 Loran Scholar, which is Canada’s largest and most comprehensive undergraduate merit award, granted based on the strength of character, academic excellence, commitment to service in the community and leadership potential. Katarzyna serves on committees that aim to enhance accessibility services for students with disabilities and break down barriers for students seeking accommodations at the university level.
We Belong Together Workshop Series
The We Belong Together workshop series are a collection of workshops around the diverse aspects that contribute to the feeling of belonging in general, and approaches to foster belonging in our courses and classrooms. The first three workshops focused on beginning the personal work essential to facilitate a culture of inclusion and belonging, on fostering a sense of belonging for students in our courses, and on reflecting on the process of decolonizing the curriculum. Links to the recordings from the first three workshops are included below, in case you are interested:
- Workshop 1: Belonging – The comfort and discomfort
- Workshop 2: Creating a sense of belonging for students
- Workshop 3: Steeped in Belonging: Decolonizing the curriculum over tea and Luskinikn
About the Belong Cluster The D-LITE Belong Cluster is a teaching cluster that is part of the D-LITE collaborative community of teachers at Dal. Our cluster focuses on attributes of student and teacher experiences that contribute to a sense of belonging in our classrooms and in our daily work, including equity, inclusion, culture, celebration of diversity in learning and knowing, accessibility, and well-being. If you have any questions about these workshops, please email the leads of the Belong Cluster, Raghav Sampangi (raghav@cs.dal.ca) and Jen Frail-Gauthier (jfrail@dal.ca).
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