Name: Caroline Borris
Professional discipline:
Occupational therapist
Employer: Consortium national de formation en santé
(CNFS) – Volet Université d’Ottawa et Université d’Ottawa
Mailing address:
200, Lees Avenue (room E100-B), Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
Email address caroline.borris@uOttawa.ca
Telephone number:
613-562-5800, ext. 8521 or 1-877-221-CNFS
Office hours: 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday to Friday
Professional information: My name is Caroline Borris, Coordinator of training projects at the CNFS – Volet Université d’Ottawa. I hold a master’s degree in education with a focus on training healthcare professionals and a Bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy. Here is a brief overview of my professional experience.
I worked for ten years in hospital centres, providing occupational therapy services to an adult and senior clientele with physical or cognitive disorders. Throughout these years, I supervised several trainees. In addition, I worked for four years as coordinator of interprofessional training in rehabilitation, and as teaching coordinator in the context of a national research project on mobilizing vulnerable seniors in Ontario.
Since 2004, I have been involved in teaching at college and university levels, in the master’s programs in occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
As a supervisor, why focus on the learning process?
Gaining a better understanding of factors that impact the learning process will allow you to:
- Identify trainees’ learning preferences;
- Select support strategies that foster trainees’ competency development.
The workshop Addressing factors that impact learning proposes a process outlining how you can support the trainee in his learning journey. Workshop activities are selected to help you recognize factors that impact learning, identify your learning preferences, plan and organize your teaching strategies, while integrating notions related to learning styles, controlling emotions, managing stress, and motivation. The workshop will raise your awareness about the importance of prior knowledge and suggest methods to activate it.
Pre-workshop reflection
You are now invited to take a few minutes to complete the online questionnaire.
Instructions:
1. Click on the “Pre-workshop reflection” button and answer the questions in the opened textboxes.
2. Click on “Save your answers”. You will then be able to review your answers at the end of the workshop, and appreciate the learnings you will have acquired.
Pre-workshop reflection
You are invited to complete this activity before starting the workshop in order to initiate your reflection about learning preferences.