Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, West Room
Get to know your cohort and your program facilitators (Katie George and Joe Kim) Learn more about the teaching and leadership components of the program.
Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, The Buttery
Join the cohort for a welcome lunch to network and learn more about the year ahead!
In collaboration with the Postdoc Office
Led by Joe Kim Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, The Great Hall
During the course of a busy term, we are pulled in multiple directions with increasing demands for our time and attention. Without a game plan, confusion, procrastination and “busy work” dominate over moving toward higher goals. Research from psychology can provide effective strategies to choose priorities that separate signal from noise, focus attention to engage in deep work, and develop habits that invest limited resources on what really matters. In this workshop we will:
Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, The Great Hall
Location: ONLINE
Zoom link Meeting ID: 957 7392 3010 Passcode: 674623
Robinson, K. A., Lee, S. Y., Friedman, S., Christians, E., McKeague, M., Pavelka, L., & Sirjoosingh, P. (2022). “You know what, I can do this”: Heterogeneous joint trajectories of expectancy for success and attainment value in chemistry. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 69, 102055.
Led by: Joe Kim & Paulina Rzeczkowska Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, West Room
Applying findings developed in controlled-lab and classroom-based studies can lead to improved slide design which translates into durable learning that extends from short-term tests to beyond the final exam. Building on the previous workshop in which we learned how to organize the lecture structure, we will next explore the underlying multimedia learning principles that guides good slide design. We will practice as we learn about redundancy, segmentation, signaling, and coherence. Together, these workshops will provide a practical plan for delivering lectures with a cohesive message.
Led by Monique Armstrong Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, West Room
Review the findings from your leadership assessment.
Creating your 90 second elevator pitch: Program members will create a 90 second elevator pitch and revise their pitch within this workshop. Once perfected, it will be recorded in the MacPherson Studio at McMaster University (by our very own multimedia specialist).
View some of the pitches from Cohort 4 and Cohort 5 to prepare for this deliverable (click on the “More Information” button to view their video).
McDermott, K. B., Agarwal, P. K., D’Antonio, L., Roediger, H. L. III, & McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Both multiple-choice and short-answer quizzes enhance later exam performance in middle and high school classes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20(1), 3–21.
Perfect your pitch and deliver your talk to your peers to help you prepare for your filming.
*Dress to impress – Paulina will take the cohort group photo today!
Facilitator: Wade Hemsworth Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, West Room
This workshop will prepare Program Members on how to write an Op-Ed article on the topic of their choice. Writing an Op-Ed will help members fine-tune their communication skills by writing for a lay-audience about a complex topic. Op-Eds can be published on the McCall-MacBain program website and submitted to other publication outlets (The Sil, The Spec, etc.)
Multimedia Specialist: Paulina Rzeczkowska Location: MacPherson Studio (5th floor Mills Library)
Paulina will take a series of headshot photos from which you will choose your favourite.
Filming your 90 second pitch: your script will be displayed on a telepromter during filming. You will have the opportunity to film your pitch up to 3 times.
Location: MacPherson Institute (5th floor Mills Library)
24hrs of micro teaching and learning. Facilitated using a peer-based model of feedback versus an expert model. Participants will use of an instructional design model (BOPPPS/CARD). There is a focus on guided practice, including:
3 forms of feedback for each participant per lesson (written, verbal and video)
Brady, S. T., Hard, B. M., & Gross, J. J. (2018). Reappraising test anxiety increases academic performance of first-year college students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 110(3), 395.
Get to know your research supervisors and hear about the interesting educational research ideas that you will be involved with this term.
Pan, S.C., Sana, F., Samani, J., Cooke, J., & Kim J.A. (2020) Learning from errors: students’ and instructors’ practices, attitudes, and beliefs. Memory, 28:9, 1105-1122.
Led by: Dr. Lina Deker Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, West Room
Dive into the world of EdCog research with Lina Deker. Understand the ethics of working with students in a university setting. What are some of the barriers and solutions when working within the academic setting? This workshop will help to better prepare you for your Education Research Projects.
Bozeman, R., Mallett, R. K., Mitchell, L., & Tindale, R. S. (2023). May we take the test as a group? Examining group processes and member learning in a collaborative testing environment. Active Learning in Higher Education, 0(0).
Using the key tips from Joe and Paulina create a 5min research talk (to be delivered to a lay audience). During this session you will complete your presentation plan and outline as well as receive feedback.
Location: LIVELab (Psychology Building, 2nd floor)
Join us in the LIVElab to experience undergraduate student talks. Assess talks based upon the principles of slide design. Discover some tips that can enhance your own research talks!
Led by: Jordan Moore Location: Alumni Memorial Hall, West Room
Complete your term feedback form and join us for a celebratory lunch to finish the term!
The Opposite to the Editorial report allows researchers to share their knowledge with the public. Allowing you to reach a larger audience and amplify your voice. Write, edit and submit an OpEd to popular publications such as “The Conversation Canada”
Program members will complete 24hrs of micro teaching and learning. Facilitated using a peer-based model of feedback versus an expert model. Participants will use of an instructional design model (BOPPPS/CARD). There is a focus on guided practice, including:
Postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to work with a professor doing education-related work or choose to investigate their own topic. The postdoctoral fellow will have the opportunity to select from these projects to form a research collaboration and mentoring relationship to be conducted throughout the year. The goal of this research project is to showcase the work they’ve done and to disseminate findings that will translate into prescriptions for teaching in the classroom and result in changes in policy.
In the fall term, program members will create, edit, peer review and film a 90 Second elevator pitch (with the direction of a DeGroote School of Business facilitator). Mixed media expert (Paulina Rzeczkowska) will guide program members through a perfect headshot and professional filming at the MacPherson Institute Studio.
(Fall term = ONLINE via ZOOM)
Program members will learn a foundational and historic perspective on cognition and educational research. This foundation will assist program members as they move into the winter term and facilitate one weekly journal club meeting (members will choose an article related to education and cognition and in collaboration with a partner, facilitate their own weekly IN PERSON journal club session)
During Program lunches, program members or external PDF’s from around McMaster are welcome to deliver and receive feedback on a job talk. Hear from your peers and perfect your talk to heighten your chances of getting that next job.