Educational Development Associates

Educational Development Associates General Email: TA&GradCTL@queensu.ca

The EDA program is an internship-like opportunity for graduate students with an interest in teaching and learning. Each year the Centre hires up to three graduate students to work closely with an Educational Developer to design and deliver programming to support TAs', graduate students' and post-doctoral fellows' ongoing professional development as educators. If you're interested in the possibility of work as an EDA, look for announcements each May for upcoming opportunities.

Contact the current EDAs at TA&GradCTL@queensu.ca if you would like any additional information about CTL programming for graduate students.

What Kind of Support do EDAs Provide?

The EDA team can support graduate students, Teaching Assistants and Teaching Fellows in the following ways:

  • Individual or group consultations about syllabus design, teaching dossiers, instructional strategies  
  • Classroom teaching observations (both virtual and in-person)
  • Discuss ideas and strategies for active learning in your lectures, tutorials, or labs

"Monica sitting in a lap"Monica L. Garvie

Department of Biology

Lead Educational Development Associate

Contact Information:

Email: TA&GradCTL@queensu.ca

Background

Monica is an Indigenous PhD candidate in the Biology Department, specializing in paleolimnology. As a first-generation degree holding woman from Treaty 9 territory with an Undergraduate focus in Northern Studies and a Certificate in Indigenous Learning, Monica is both experienced and knowledgeable in navigating the demands of western pedagogy while maintaining Anishinaabe mino-bimaadiziwin, pedagogy, and epistemology.

She is passionate about asserting the Indigenous epistemological presence and Indigenizing the western academic space, beginning with the way the academy approaches teaching and learning. Monica has extensive teaching experience through a wide range of formal teaching assistant positions as well as informal peer and undergraduate mentorship over the last four years.

In addition to her PhD work, Monica is also involved with several Queen’s organizations focused on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigenization including the BGSC, SGPS, and PSAC to name a few. As an Education Development Associate with the CTL, Monica is motivated to not only bring her unique experience and knowledge to the Queen’s teaching community but to also deepen her own understanding and relationship with various pedagogies and experiences.

 

Kim Hill-ToutKim Hill-Tout

Department of Geography and Planning

Educational Development Associate

Contact Information:

Email: TA&GradCTL@queensu.ca

Background

Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning. The first part of her work focuses on meal kit delivery programs and consumer identity negotiations in relation to foodscapes and culinary discourses. This research lies at the intersection of diet politics and identity (re)formation. Secondly, Kim has been advancing public scholarship and university-community research collaborations. Specifically, this research is focused on decolonizing academic outputs and community relationships with Indigenous organizations around the Katarowki/Kingston area.

Alongside pursuing her doctoral studies, Kim also serves on several student unions, with a focus on advancing I-EDIAA principles and actions at Queen’s. In her role as an Education Development Associate with the CTL, she is excited to bring her experience with international development facilitation and critical pedagogies, and advance her own understanding and familiarity with educational development in the university context!

Ben CarrollBen Carroll

School of Nursing

Educational Development Associate

Contact Information:

Email: TA&GradCTL@queensu.ca

Background

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Ben is a PhD student at the School of Nursing and gratefully lives and works on the unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory. His dissertation research will contribute to improving the quality of health care for 2SLGBTQI+ people through critiquing the entrenchment of the gender binary in nursing education.
 
Ben also participates in equity, diversity, inclusion, Indigenization, and accessibility service work. In the Faculty of Health Sciences he collaborated on the development of a faculty-wide inclusive curriculum model based on Lindsay Brant's Pedagogy of Peace model. Ben also invites you to visit www.SOGINursing.ca to explore the virtual clinical simulations he developed in collaboration with other queer and trans health care providers and community members. There you can learn about cultural humility in transgender health and primary care.
 
Ben has experience teaching in varied settings such as with kids and parents at the hospital bedside; with nursing students in clinic, lab, and classroom in both colleges and universities; as a teaching assistant and teaching fellow; as well as with health professionals by conducting seminars and workshops on transgender health. As an Education Development Associate, Ben is looking forward to applying his own experiences teaching to teaching with other grad students and post doc fellows and excited to broaden his understandings of educational development in higher education at CTL.

Badriyya YusufBadriyya Yusuf

Department of Political Studies

Educational Development Associate

Contact Information:

Email: TA&GradCTL@queensu.ca

Background

Pronouns: she/her

Badriyya is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Studies. Her fields of study are International Relations (IR) and Gender & Politics. Her research interests include regionalisms, regional security in Africa, and agential constructivist approaches to global governance. Badriyya also has experience working with research institutes and NGOs in Canada and in African countries. Her research focuses on the participation of the Global South in global governance processes. Specifically, her work explores the role of African stakeholders in agenda-setting of global digital taxation.
 
In addition to her PhD work, Badriyya is also engaged in advancing EDIIA work. She has actively participated in the creation of a Resource Bank, which is a collection of resources for use by faculty and students in the Political Studies department and beyond. The Resource Bank Project was initiated in response to calls for diversification and decolonization of disciplinary practices in International Relations. Badriyya is excited to share her knowledge, experience in learning and critical pedagogies through the CTL.