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Perhaps you are a manager who would like to support your staff as they broaden their professional knowledge. Perhaps you are developing asynchronous or course-embedded content for students or faculty to use. Perhaps you are collecting training material for peer helpers you supervise, or perhaps you are seeking a resource on a particular topic to share with a student you’re helping. We hope you find what you need in the sections below!
These resources were suggested by LSAC members and curated by a team of dedicated volunteers. If you know of a resource that you think should be added to this collection, please contact webmaster@learningspecialists.ca. We are always interested in adding new resources for our members to use.
Academic language is like a dialect; it’s a subset of English that is used for a specific purpose—academic speaking and writing—and understood by a specific audience—academics.
Provides detailed descriptions of techniques, ample case studies, fascinating and easy to understand explanations of research, and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, child and youth care workers, and other mental health professionals can help young people become more resilient.
Author: WordReference Online English, French, Spanish, Italian and German dictionary. I’ve used this resource many times to translate to French. View Website
Author: Wisahkotewinowak Wisahkotewinowak is an urban Indigenous garden collective building Land-based relationships across the Grand River Territory. View Website
Author: Wilfrid Laurier University Laurier’s professional development non-credit courses and certificates provide training for learning specialists who would like to build their skills in counselling techniques and/or positive psychology. View Course
Author: Sian Leah Beilock A video about performance anxiety and practical strategies to manage it. Watch Video
Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues? View Book
Author: Stephen Brookfield The author uses his own experience of learning to understand and cope with depression as the starting point for an analysis of what might comprise a research agenda for anyone interested in exploring the adult learning dimensions of depression. Read Article
Author: Michael Ungar An easy to use guide that explains what resilience is and how the concept can be used in the design of programs for children, youth, and families. View Website
Author: Rebecaa Branstetter Helpful centering of SEL (social emotional learning) in pandemic context. This is a rethink of “pandemic learning losses.” View Website
Author: Queens SASS Having the template is helpful, and students can obviously translate this to an agenda or app if that works better for them, but the real brilliance here is giving students a process to work through in setting up their time. View Tip Guide
Author: Peter Levine Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? View Book
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