Re-Imagining and Indigenizing the Library's Role in Educating New Teachers
The role of libraries will be examined — specifically the Education Library, First Nations House of Learning Xwi7xwa Library, and more broadly, school libraries. The re-imagined teacher education program has inspired revision in the role Education librarians play to respectfully and meaningfully integrate First Nations history, content, and world-views; commit to inquiry and research oriented […]
Ann Phelan, Marianne MacTavish, Wendy Carr – Inquiry in Teacher Education
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education’s CREATE Seminar Series. The re-visioned teacher education (BEd) program will be implemented in September. One of its guiding tenets is the development of an inquiry approach to teacher education. Three inquiry seminars will anchor the new program and, in […]
Margot Filipenko – The Multi-Purpose E-Portfolio: How Teacher Candidates Employ an Online Portfolio for Professional Development
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education. Margot Filipenko is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia and co-coordinator (with Brenda Lamb) of the Problem-Based Learning cohort. Dr. Filipenko teachs courses (graduate and undergraduate) both in literacy […]
Michiah Prull – Beyond awareness: the power of public narrative
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Common Energy UBC’s NOW (No Other World) Forum. Michiah Prull works as a Community Leadership Coordinator at the David Suzuki Foundation. Michiah has previously worked on President Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign, thus he is very knowledgeable about engaging people in a cause. In this […]
Margot Filipenko, Anne Zavalkoff, Frank Baumann and Dot Clouston – The Match: The New B.Ed Program and Problem Based Learning
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education. In September 2012 the re-visioned teacher education (BEd) program will begin. The presenters of this seminar will discuss the ways their long-standing PBL curriculum will fit with the new CREATE curriculum. Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library Zavalkoff, […]
Kedrick James – Language and Literacy Education: An Aesthetic Approach
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Education. This presentation explores the use of procedural poetics to enhance language and literacy education, in particular the teaching of writing, by developing strategic pedagogical interventions to direct language study while simultaneously providing students with opportunities to create remarkable literary works. […]
Nancy Perry, Rebecca Collie, and Charlotte Brenner – Enhancing Early Career Motivation and Well-Being Through Preservice Teaching Experiences
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Faculty of Education. CREATE (Community to Re-imagine Educational Alternatives for Teacher Education). Research indicates a wide range of factors affect teachers’ motivation for and commitment to teaching, especially early in their careers. Our research seeks to understand these factors better by examining […]
Anthony Clarke – The Mentoring Profile Inventory: An Online Professional Development Resource for Practicum Advisors
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education’s Community to Reimagine Educational Alternatives for Teacher Education (CREATE). The Richmond School Advisor Network has developed an online inventory, a Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI), to help practicum advisors attend to selected dimensions of their advisory practice. The MPI helps […]
Justice for Rumana Monzur – A Debate
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Canada’s universities are becoming truly global, and when an unthinkable assault happens to a student from abroad, we need to ask the questions we would if she were a Canadian citizen: How could this happen? Why? What can be done to make sure it never happens […]
Mark Wexler – Sam Sullivan Public Salon Series
Mark Wexler is Professor of Management Ethics & Management at SFU and a renowned expert on ethics. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library Wexler, M. N. (1987). Conjectures on the dynamics of secrecy and the secrets business. Journal of Business Ethics, 6(6), 469. [Link] Wexler, […]