The conference will bring together graduate supervisors from universities across Canada, with the aim to lead and foster dialogue about best practices in supervisory pedagogy.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\"We need to continue talking about principles and best practices,\" says Cheryl van Daalen-Smith<\/strong>, conference Chair and associate dean, academic of FGS<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference is intended to fill a need for schools of graduate studies, which understand that more conversations have to happen about supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"There's an assumption that one learns to be a supervisor by being supervised themselves,\" she says, \"when there\u2019s so much more to it.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n A cornerstone of the academic environment, graduate education and the graduate supervisory experience play a pivotal role in shaping students' academic and professional journeys. This relationship has a profound effect on the quality of research produced, development of academic skills and overall academic experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference will include a keynote address delivered by Bruce Shore, author of The Graduate Advisor Handbook: A Student-Centred Approach<\/em>, titled \"Connections to Quagmires: Setting Up for Successful Supervision.\" A second keynote speech, by Supervising Conflict<\/em> author Heather McGhee Peggs, will offer practical advice to help faculty manage the most common grad school concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Experts in the pragmatics of supervision, mediating conflict and the requisite principles guiding Ontario universities will participate in a panel discussion to follow, examining the Principles for Graduate Supervision at Ontario Universities, which were developed last year by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A closing discussion moderated by van Daalen-Smith will end the day, with a focus on the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Working Group Initiative and its mission to establish a set of national graduate supervision principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"We need to celebrate great supervision and foster discussions that identify exactly what it is that makes this pivotal educative role in graduate studies so influential,\u201d says van Daalen-Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conference is free to attend, and registration is now open via the online form<\/a>. For more information, visit the event web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Faculty of Graduate Studies is hosting a virtual conference on the state of graduate student supervision\u00a0to help lead conversations about best practices for\u00a0student-supervisor experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":352641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[34,7,17,15,14,70,4],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[197,167,158,169,210],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-352544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-picks","category-teaching-learning","tag-events","tag-fgs","tag-sdg-4","tag-sdg","tag-teaching-and-learning","tag-uap2020","tag-yfile","tags-to-show-events","tags-to-show-faculty-of-graduate-studies","tags-to-show-sdg","tags-to-show-teaching-and-learning","tags-to-show-uap2020"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n