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2024 Faculty of Science Teaching & Learning Grants Recipients
June 19, 2025
SFU Science is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Faculty of Science Teaching & Learning Grants. These grants provide support for teaching faculty to conduct research about teaching and learning and test innovative strategies for course delivery.
- Megan Barker & Miranda Meents - Biological Sciences - "Ungrading in SFU Biology: Assessing how we assess to support students across the curriculum"
- Exploring "Ungrading": gathering perspectives and putting into practice. We've been hearing more about "ungrading," where students self-reflect and take part in assessing some (or all) of their course grade. Advocates say it boosts motivation, equity, metacognition, and meaningful learning. That made us curious: what does ungrading actually look like in science courses? What varieties are out there, what works, and what doesn't? By exploring instructor and student experiences, we aim to build practical, context-specific tools—so others can try it too, even at scale.
- Kevin Lam - Biological Sciences - "Developing Modules and Methods that train TAs to lead Decolonial lessons across BISC undergraduate core courses (using BISC 410 as a testing ground)"
- In 2021 and 2023, blake danis (SFU BISC PhD Graduate), Ashley Edwards (SFU Indigenous Initiatives and Instruction Librarian) and Kevin Lam (SFU BISC Senior Lecturer) co-developed and refined a semester-long series of activities to help students with the challenging work of Decolonizing themselves, and their approaches to science, while also preparing themselves to form respectful, reciprocity-based partnerships and relationships with Indigenous communities for future research endeavors. blake facilitated these activities every week, during tutorials in Kevin Lam's BISC 410 (Behavioural Ecology) course, and students found the journey very meaningful and eye-opening.
With support from this Grant and from the Department of Biological Sciences, blake, Ashley, and Kevin will design and test materials and methods for training other graduate students to facilitate these important Decolonial lessons. This is an important next step to sharing this learning and growth more broadly across BISC courses, with both graduate and undergraduate students.
- In 2021 and 2023, blake danis (SFU BISC PhD Graduate), Ashley Edwards (SFU Indigenous Initiatives and Instruction Librarian) and Kevin Lam (SFU BISC Senior Lecturer) co-developed and refined a semester-long series of activities to help students with the challenging work of Decolonizing themselves, and their approaches to science, while also preparing themselves to form respectful, reciprocity-based partnerships and relationships with Indigenous communities for future research endeavors. blake facilitated these activities every week, during tutorials in Kevin Lam's BISC 410 (Behavioural Ecology) course, and students found the journey very meaningful and eye-opening.
Congratulations all!!
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