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Hiring Unit:
Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)
Course code and title:
EDEC 202-002. Effective Communication.
Description: Effective writing, speaking, and non-verbal communication skills for a variety of academic and professional situations. Feedback approaches, influential rhetoric, and how to make effective requests to build productive teams through communication. Communication norms in multiple contexts and cultures, identification and correction of common errors in grammar, mechanics and usage.
This course is not Team taught or offered online.
Term:
Fall 2026
Credits:
3 credits
Location:
Education Building (EDUC 338)
Schedule:
Friday, 08:35 am-11:25 am
Teaching Qualification Requirements (TQRs):
Education:
1. Graduate degree(s) in relevant fields (e.g., education, rhetoric and composition, applied linguistics, communication studies, or related fields).
2. Strong grounding in theories of writing, rhetoric, and communication across academic and professional contexts.
Experience:
1. Expert knowledge of:
Rhetorical approaches to communication, including how writing and speaking respond to audience, purpose, and context.
Writing as a social and situated practice, including genre theory and communication across institutional and cultural contexts.
Strategies for teaching writing as a process, including invention, drafting, revision, and peer feedback.
Approaches to teaching oral, written, and non-verbal communication skills in academic and professional settings.
Academic writing conventions, including APA style, argumentation, and literature-based writing.
Pedagogical approaches to supporting collaborative writing, group facilitation, and feedback practices.
Critical perspectives on language, including how communication intersects with identity, culture, and power.
2. Experience teaching writing and/or communication at the postsecondary level.
3. Experience designing and facilitating workshop-based, discussion-based, and peer-feedback-driven learning environments.
4. Experience supporting students in transferring communication skills across contexts (e.g., academic, professional, community-based writing).
5. Experience facilitating respectful, inclusive dialogue and support critical reflection among learners.
Other:
1. Knowledge of the impact and experience integrating pedagogical approaches anchored to equity, diversity and inclusion.
2. Familiarity using myCourses, Zoom and/or other similar online platforms to facilitate quality teaching and learning experiences.
3. Familiarity with the application of a variety of digital teaching and learning tools.
4. Familiarity teaching blended classes.
5. Instruction in this course may be delivered remotely if indicated as required by the university.
Posting Period:
June 1, 2026 – June 12, 2026 (11:59 PM)
Before applying, please note that to work at McGill University, you must be both authorized to work in Canada and willing to work in the province of Quebec at the campus where the position is based / located.
McGill University is an English-language university where most teaching and research activities are conducted in the English language, thereby requiring English communication both verbally and in writing.
Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE)
Effective Communication
EDEC 202 002
Education Building
2026-06-12
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