The McGill Reporter is happy to announce that the numbers of applicants for the Principal's Prize for Emerging Researchers grew significantly this year. The jury was impressed by the number of early-career researchers who see sharing their knowledge with the media and the public as being an important and natural complement to their academic work.
Published on: 16 Apr 2021
Dr. Tina Montreuil, of the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology, was recently interviewed in the McGill Tribune on the symptoms of social anxiety in early adolescence.
Published on: 9 Apr 2021
Karissa Leduc, a PhD candidate in the Human Development Program supervised by Dr. Victoria Talwar, has won the competitive Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship from the American Psychological Foundation.
This prestigious fellowship is awarded to promising young scholars to pursue innovative research in the area of child psychology.
Published on: 31 Mar 2021
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Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, We are writing to you to make you aware of the required cybersecurity measures McGill has been implementing during the past year鈥檚 remote work situation and the impending completion scheduled for our Faculty. McGill has been rolling out two-factor authentication (2FA) for all new accounts since January 2020. In April, IT Services will support the Faculty of Education in securing all remaining accounts for faculty, staff, and students. 听 |
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Published on: 29 Mar 2021
According to Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the world鈥檚 largest international higher education network, McGill鈥檚 Faculty of Education has ranked 26th in the world for . Each of the subject rankings is compiled using four sources. The first two of these are QS鈥檚 global surveys of academics and employers, which are used to assess institutions鈥� international reputation in each subject.
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Published on: 8 Mar 2021
While kids may be resilient, the pandemic is testing the limits of that resilience.
Children and teens are dealing with a toxic cocktail of stressors and it's hurting them. According to a听听from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, 70 percent of children and youth surveyed experienced a deterioration of mental health in the first wave of the pandemic.
Published on: 26 Feb 2021
Language is the building blocks of literacy. In this project, we aim to find out the relationship between ability to understand from spoken language and text in bilingual children, adolescents, and adults.
McGill researcher, Dr. Gigi Luk at Educational and Counselling Psychology, is looking for children (ages 6-9) and adolescents (ages 12-15) to understand how language and reading are related and develop in bilingual individuals.
Published on: 25 Feb 2021
Every new parent knows that their sleep suffers when they have children, and there鈥檚 evidence that may not get better for a while. However, a study led by Marie-H茅l猫ne Pennestri, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, on parents and sleep, showed no association between interrupted sleep and later cognitive or physical development problems.
Published on: 12 Feb 2021
Dr. Nancy Heath, of the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, was recently interviewed on CBC Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel, about students' needs of social connections and their mental health.
Lack of these connections is a key part of mental health, and though not all students feel that classrooms are a safe way to keep these connections, Dr. Heath wonders if there are outside options that would give young people a safer way to connect while maintaining distancing to rebuild their normal connections.
Published on: 9 Feb 2021
Many of us have not been on campus for some time, and I鈥檓 sure there are new members of our Faculty who have yet to experience life on-campus. Please be reminded that it is still possible to pick up items and conduct small-scale activities on campus, but take note that we require three business days to process requests.
Published on: 9 Feb 2021
Dr. Tina Montreuil, from the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, recently wrote an article in the national online newspaper The Conversation on parenting in a pandemic and how to develop stronger family relationships during COVID-19.
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Published on: 5 Feb 2021
It鈥檚 no secret that students have had a very tough time during this COVID-19 pandemic.
A new study by McGill University and the University of Toronto found that students who've never had mental health issues now find themselves in greater distress.
Published on: 29 Jan 2021
Teen suicide prevention during COVID-19: How parents and kids can have honest and safe conversations
鈥淪chool or no school, it won鈥檛 matter.鈥�
鈥淵oung people鈥檚 issues are minor compared to those of adults.鈥�
As researchers concerned with suicide prevention in youth, we sometimes hear people express sentiments like these about young people in the pandemic. But socialization is an important part of growing up. As much as COVID-19 has affected adults, it may affect children and teens even more.
Published on: 28 Jan 2021
Discover 7 Essential Principles of Great Teaching
The most effective teachers are those who are both purposeful and intentional in their daily work. Built on seven well-researched principles, this resource outlines how new and veteran teachers can thoughtfully cultivate a rich learning environment conducive to the success of every student.
"Any teacher at any stage of teaching has the power to turn things around and begin leading their students toward academic growth.鈥�
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Published on: 26 Jan 2021
Mothers with multiple children report more fragmented sleep than mothers of a single child, but the number of children in a family doesn't seem to affect the quality of sleep for fathers, according to a听听from McGill University.
Published on: 25 Jan 2021
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