Teaching Experience
I was hired to teach my first course prior to the pandemic and began planning my classroom for in-person. Like everyone, I had to shift my teaching to online learning prior to the start of the class, a difficult task for all of us. As a first-time teacher, my success in teaching online was due to my ability to reach out for help.
I am rooted in the belief that we learn with and from others and continue to stay connected with those that have influenced my journey. I have been invited to return to Brock University to deliver a guest lecture, to speak to 200-300 students from various universities across the United States in the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, in my department at the University of Windsor, and at the Centre and Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor. I strive to use my interdisciplinary training to teach across and within various contexts.
Bridget consistently accesses pertinent available resources (workshops, templates, policies), and we had fruitful discussions as she was conceptualizing and customizing the class.
Dr. Kendra Coulter
Course Instruction
LABR 2Q95
Animals at Work
Fall 2023
Department of Labour Studies, Brock University
This course explores North American and international perspectives of work involving animals in historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural contexts. Substantive topics include:
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The work done with/for animals
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The work done by animals
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The political work done with/for animals
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Interspecies solidarity and humane jobs
LABR 3Q96: Children & Youth Work
Spring 2020
Department of Labour Studies, Brock University
This course explores North American and international perspectives on children and youth at work in the labour market, and within families and kinship networks. We will examine the ways in which children’s involvement in paid and unpaid work are produced and reproduced over time. The course is organized around themes of historical change, agency, political strategies, and children and youth workers as social change agents.
Guest Lectures
GATA Academy
August 29, 2023
Centre of Teaching & Learning, University of Windsor
Invited to co-facilitate a workshop titled “Let’s Talk: How GAs/Ts Can Foster Engaging Classroom Discussions.”
Description:
Engaged class discussions can be used in a variety of disciplines to vivify a topic, practice and solidify previously acquired knowledge, to improve communication, to foster analysis and synthesis of different viewpoints about a problem, or to even generate debates and arguments amongst students to promote higher order thinking skills.
This workshop will help GAs and TAs from all faculties and departments to plan, lead, and facilitate discussions using interactive exercises. Participants will leave with strategies on how to plan and prepare for the discussion, communicate with students, handle group dynamics and conflict, active-learning techniques, foster a collaborative environment and more!
University Teaching Practicum - Teaching & Learning Facilitation
April 12, 2023
Centre of Teaching & Learning, University of Windsor
I led a session titled “The Impact of Non-Verbal Communication on Learning” to the University Teaching Certificate Program Committee.
Description:
Depending on one’s positionality, background, values, beliefs, they may perceive the same form of communication in different ways. It is here that the presenter focuses less on reviewing practical strategies to combat miscommunication, instead drawing awareness that communication is complicated, and that we come to social interaction with our own identity means that we will always inherently complicate communication.
GATA Academy
August 31, 2022
Centre of Teaching & Learning, University of Windsor
Invited to co-facilitate an online workshop titled “Planning Effective Lectures and Tutorials to Enhance Student Engagement.”
Description:
What are the basics of planning a lesson? How do you/we use the time that you/we have in class effectively? How do you keep students engaged? This workshop will help GAs and TAs from all faculties and departments to plan and deliver effective and engaging lectures and tutorials which can be used both in the classroom as well as in a virtual environment. The workshop will involve interactive exercises where participants will receive peer and instructor feedback on their teaching practices. Participants will leave with strategies for how to create effective PowerPoints, and how to structure and sequence content, among other skills and techniques to further aid in their teaching development.
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program
June 16, 2022 & July 16, 2021
A United States Department of Education Program, Presented by the Academic Society
Invited to speak to the students of the McNair scholars cohort program about preparing for grad school, mental health, time management, and managing expectations as a working-class student.
SACR 3650: Green Criminology
June 16, 2022 & July 16, 2021
Department of Sociology & Criminology, University of Windsor
Invited to deliver an online guest lecture to approximately 50 students titled “The Labour-Law Connection: An Ontario Perspective on Animal Abuse.”
The lecture was recorded and used again during the Fall 2022 semester
ENGL 3V91: Social Justice & Cultural Production
June 16, 2022 & July 16, 2021
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Invited to co-teach online a guest lecture to approximately 50 students titled “Seeking Justice Through a Multi- Species Lens: Understanding the Connections”
SACR 2900: Researching Social Life
June 16, 2022 & July 16, 2021
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Invited to deliver an in-person lecture titled “Selecting a sample and participants”.
LABR 2Q95: Animals at Work
June 16, 2022 & July 16, 2021
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Invited to deliver an in-person guest lecture on “Animal Assisted Therapy”
I was so exhilarated by the presentation at the Niagara Social Justice Forum that I approached Bridget and Brittany to see if they would consider doing the same presentation in a fourth-year class, Social Justice and Cultural Production.
Dr. Susan Spearey