Patricia A. Post
PATRICIA A. POST, Senior Teaching Associate, joined the Faculty of Business Administration in 2001 and is a member of the Communications Area. Her primary responsibility is undergraduate teaching. She teaches Business Communications I and II in the BBA program.
Pat has devoted much of her career to educational communications and adult learning having taught English-as-a-Second Language and adult upgrading in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Baffin Island. She has also taught adult education at the Nova Scotia Community College, Truro, and the University of Prince Edward Island. Prior to her current appointment, she served as an instructor in the Faculty of Education at UNBF.
"In a previous life," Pat tried her hand at parenting, office administration, court reporting, emergency medicine, graphic art, and stand-up comedy.
Pat's academic interests include conducting phenomenological research on the developmental stages of learning to teach in higher education and the role of gender and culture in communication styles.
Peer-Reviewed Journals:
Trial by hire: The seven stages of learning to teach in higher education. Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 12, Winter 2011, http://journals.cluteonline.com/index.php/CIER/article/view/6659/6734).
University Community Publications:
UNB faculty teaching handbook, Revised 2006, University of New Brunswick Teaching and Learning Centre.
Conference Proceedings or Presentations:
Trial by hire: The Seven Stages of Learning to Teach in Higher Education. The 2011 Centennial Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, November 2011.
Trial by hire: The Seven Stages of Learning to Teach in Higher Education. European Academic Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 2011.
Learning to teach in higher education. Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, UBC, Vancouver, BC, April 2009.
The Seven Stages of Learning to Teach in Higher Education. Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB 2009.
You can lead a course to culture but can you make them think? Atlantic Universities Teaching Showcase, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, 2006.
Humour in the large classroom. Effective Teaching Institute, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, 2006.
Workshops/Seminars:
The Seven Stages of Learning to Teach. Faculty of Business Administration, UNB, 2008.
The 5 P’s of “perfect” presentations. Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, UNB, 2007.
Difficult students or difficult professors? Teaching Assistants Workshop, UNB Teaching & Learning Centre, 2006.
From chopsticks to hockey sticks: Interpreting the culture of the Faculty of Administration. UNB, Faculty of Administration, 2006.
Articles Published in Trade Journals:
Better dead than distance ed: One woman’s incredible odyssey from cold feet to the hot seat. Communiqué, (13) 3, 1998.
Contact Information
Senior Teaching Associate, Communications
University of New Brunswick
Office Phone: (506) 458-7314
Office Location: 354 Singer Hall
