
Donna Ellis
Associate Director, TRACE
University
of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
donnae@admmail.uwaterloo.ca
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Donna Ellis is the Associate
Director of the Teaching Resources Office at the University of Waterloo
(UW). She works with faculty members and graduate students to both
support and challenge them in developing and reflecting on their teaching
practices, goals, and beliefs. She provides individual consultations,
classroom observations, course evaluation analyses, and hands-on workshops,
and oversees UW’s Certificate in University Teaching program
for graduate students. Donna is a member of POD’s Core Committee
(2005-2008), serving as Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee
and sitting on the Executive Committee. She also co-chaired the 2004
POD annual conference held in Montréal, Québec.
Donna completed her B.A. and M.A. at UW in Rhetoric and Professional
Writing, then completed a Certificate in Adult & Continuing
Education from the University of Manitoba. She is currently pursuing
part-time graduate studies in Management Sciences at UW. Her current
research interests include reflective teaching, transformative learning,
and culture change within higher education. She was a co-investigator
on a 4-year SSHRC grant entitled, Identifying Success Indicators
for the Future Professoriate: An Assessment of Canadian Certification
in University Teaching Program Outcomes.
When not at work or school, Donna spends time with her husband,
their three young sons, and their yellow lab puppy.
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