Short Pitches on the Patches

Here is a preview of all the patches that you are about to read.

1. Safe Spaces for Learning: Taking Psych Safety Beyond the Sim Lab

by: Dr. Eve Purdy

Psychological safety can encourage team members to share their ideas and be themselves, but it requires more than just ‘being nice’. Here, Eve offers a few simple tips for fostering psychological safety across learning environments.

2. Cultivating Exceptional Professionals: The 3 W’s of Effective Coaching

by: Dr. Jessica Trier

How is coaching different from teaching or mentoring? This patch by Jessica explores how building trusting relationships and embracing a growth mindset can help teachers foster a safe learning environment in which learners can achieve their goals.

3. Embrace Uncertainty

By: Dr. Michelle Gibson

Rewinding to look at the same situation differently. Michelle aims to teach her students that it is normal to not always know immediately what the ‘answer’ is.

4. Planting the seeds

By: Dr. Steve Mann

Sowing the seeds of future understanding. Steve shares a patch that acknowledges many hands help provide a solid foundation in which a student can flourish from.

5. Cultural Safety as Pedagogy

By: Dr. Mary Smith

Engaging dialogue. Mary reflects on the Truth and Reconciliation: Calls to Action surrounding Indigenous  practices.

6. Sharing your passion and enthusiasm with trainees

By: Dr. Christopher C. Frank

Chris speaks about teaching with enthusiasm, the reward of seeing understanding in the faces of students and who he credits for helping him to develop his methods.

7. Eportfolio: Help students integrate learning and get set for life after university

By: Ms. Brenda Melles

Teasing out your experience to clearly see the path you have travelled. This patch from Bren explains how to help students discover their accomplishments.