Teaching and Education
Tracy Friedel – Decolonizing Learning Through the Lense of Place, Community and Experience
This seminar focuses on the potential and pedagogical possibilities of place/community/experience–based learning to act as a decolonizing force in teacher education. In this seminar, we will share the experience of an Indigenous educator who sought to work with a group of graduate students to understand how participation in place–based service learning could affect graduate students’ [...]
Handel Wright – The Awkwardness of the M Word: Canadian Multicultural Education After the Death of Multiculturalism
This session presents two tales of Canadian multiculturalism in general and multicultural education in particular. One tale is of a common sense, dominant multicultural education that underscores multiculturalism as a symbol and premiere characteristic of Canada. There may have been some critiques from the left and the right in the past and there’s always the [...]
George Belliveau – Shakespeare and drama in the primary classroom
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education’s CREATE series. George Belliveau is Associate Professor at the UBC Department of Language and Literacy Education. He gave the Opening Keynote address, “Shakespeare and drama in the primary classroom” for the Drama New Zealand National Conference in April, as [...]
Marina Milner-Bolotin – The use of modern technology in teacher education: Are we ready?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education CREATE series. This hands-on presentation will discuss and showcase opportunities for effective use of technology-enhanced pedagogies in teacher education, as well as K-12 Mathematics and Science classrooms. We will focus on electronic-response systems (or clickers) and discuss how they [...]
Engaging Youth With Indigenous Materials in Libraries and Classrooms
Assessing and incorporating teaching and learning resources by and about First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples is critical for librarians, educators and parents. Awareness of diverse epistemologies, notions of cultural authenticity and historical accuracy, and the influence of colonialism, are essential when considering books, films and interactive media for library and classroom collections. This panel [...]
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. captions(16).sbv
