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We constantly hear about the shrinkage in full time faculty positions at universities across the country. In addition, we are told that teacher supply has not yet exceeded demand. So, what kind of career path can a person who is well qualified in science, mathematics or technology education envisage or pursue? The forum What can you do with a graduate degree in SMT Education? brings together panelists who have used their graduate degrees in science, mathematics or technology education to forge career paths outside of traditional school, college or university teaching and research roles. Panel members have graduated with MEd, MA, MT, and/or PhD degrees from OISE. Please join us for a lively discussion as panelists share their stories and trajectories; feel free to invite friends and colleagues.

This event will be video-recorded in front of a live audience. Free admission. Light refreshments available. Please RSVP.

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm, Thursday 5 December 2019. NEXUS Lounge (12th floor, Room 12-130), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON

SMT Centre meeting Friday 6 December 2019 Room 11-164, 12:15pm to 1:15 pm (lunch from 12:00pm)

• Review of November meeting minutes 
• Introduction of new attendees
• Community presentation: Students’ 3-minute theses
• Retreat feedback
• SMT Centre research report: Members’ feedback
• Update on potential research connection: Moscow 
• CJSMTE Update 
• Any Other Business

Feel free to invite others who might be interested to attend the meeting.

Please bring containers to take home food at the end of the meeting to avoid waste.

Reminder: All SMT Centre members are invited to the SMT Emphasis Forum: What can you do with a graduate degree in SMT Education? this Thursday 5 December 2019, from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm in NEXUS Lounge (12th floor, Room 12-130), OISE, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON. Please RSVP.

SMT Centre meeting Friday 1 November 2019

Room 11-164, 12:15pm to 1:15 pm (lunch from 12:00pm)

• Review of October meeting minutes (see attached)
• Introduction of new attendees
• Community presentation by Carol-Ann Burke and Kristen Schaffer: Challenges and Opportunities for Community-Based Research Partnerships in Informal Science Education
• December Community presentation: Students’ forum
• Colloquium planning retreat
• SMT governance: Processes to determine directorship
• December SMT Panel: What can you do with a graduate degree in SMT Education?
• Potential collaboration (Lyudmilla Osipenko): Engineering and primary and preschoolers (Moscow State Pedagogical University)
• CJSMTE update
• Any Other Business

Feel free to invite others who might be interested to attend the meeting.

Please bring containers to take home food at the end of the meeting to avoid waste.

Next meeting: Friday 6 December, 2019

Reminder: All SMT Centre members are invited to the colloquium planning retreat 9:00am – 12:00am, Friday 8 November 2019. The Nexus Lounge, 12th Floor OISE.

SMT Centre meeting Friday 12 April, 2019

Room 11-164, 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm (lunch from 12:00 pm)

• Review of March meeting minutes
• Introduction of new attendees
• Community presentation by Christina Phillips and Zoya Padamsi: Interdisciplinary Collaboration Study
• Feedback on the Centre research funding proposal
• Request for items and information for the Centre newsletter
• Centre website updates
• CJSMTE update
• AnyOther Business

Feel free to invite others who might be interested to attend the meeting.

Please bring containers to take home food at the end of the meeting to avoid waste.

This is the last meeting for the 2018/2019 academic year. Looking forward to seeing you all.

OISE’s Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) Centre and the Canadian Science Education Research Group (SERG) co-host a cross-Canada forum:

STEM in Teacher Education – A Canadian Perspective

Over the last decade or so, the STEM acronym has gained momentum as a hot new term in educational and public spheres in Canada. Despite the term’s ubiquity, education systems have been slow to formally identify ways in which we should approach STEM education, much less how we should conceptualize what STEM means in a Canadian context. Meanwhile, teachers are being prepared for classrooms where they are expected to introduce the STEM construct to their students. In the cross-Canada forum STEM in teacher education: A Canadian perspective,panelists and audience members will explore ways in which teacher educators in Canada are preparing pre-service teachers for this new avenue of teaching and learning while examining the potential challenges and affordances attending STEM education.

Panel members:

• Jesse Bazzul, University of Regina
• Karen Goodnough, Memorial University
• Marina Milner-Bolotin, University of British Columbia
• Carol Rees, Thompson Rivers University
• Christine Tippett, University of Ottawa

Afterthoughts provided by David Blades, University of Victoria

Moderator: Doug McDougall, OISE, University of Toronto; Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.

Please join us for a lively discussion and feel free to invite friends and colleagues. This event will be video-recorded in front of a live audience. Free admission. Light refreshments available. RSVP.

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm, Tuesday 9 April 2019. NEXUS Lounge (12th floor, Room 12-130), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON

SMT Centre meeting Friday 1 March, 2019

Room 11-164, 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm (lunch from 12:00 pm)

SMT Centre meeting Friday 1 February, 2019

Room 11-164, 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm (lunch from 12:00 pm)

·      Review of January meeting minutes

·      Introduction of new attendees

·      Additional Centre Funding: ideas and nomination of sub-committee members

·      MT STEM workshops report

·      SMT Emphasis Research Celebration report

·      Outcome of the SMT Centre EDU-C review

·      Community presentation by Cathy Marks Krpan and Gurpreet Sahmbi: Taking the Journey Less Travelled: Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact of Action Research on the Implementation of Argumentation Tasks in their Classroom Practice

·      Any Other Business

Feel free to invite others who might be interested to attend the meeting.

Please bring containers to take home food at the end of the meeting to avoid waste.

Next meeting: Friday 1 March 2019, room 11-164

SMT Centre Research Celebration

On Thursday 17 January 2019, the Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) Education hosted an evening to celebrate the research works of students and faculty members in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. The event, which was co-sponsored by the CTLSA, the GSA and the SMT Centre, started by showcasing students’ ongoing and completed research in the format of posters, and faculty members’ most recent publications.

After Erminia Pedretti gave a special introductory welcome to students participating in the Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Emphasis, John Wallace, 2008 to 2018 Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education (CJSMTE), addressed some current issues in the field of academic publication and suggested a few future directions for the CJSMTE. SMT Centre Director Carol-Ann Burke thanked John Wallace for his dedicated efforts during the ten years of being Editor-in-Chief of the CJSMTE and introduced Doug McDougall as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. The event was well-attended by students and faculty members. Many thanks to all who participated!

A workshop to support making a poster presentation (starting with the process of poster design) will be held on Thursday December 6, 2018 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in OISE room 11-164.

This event is co-sponsored by the CTLSA, the GSA and the SMT Centre.