UBC alumni explore new teaching method
Flipped classrooms allow students more time with teachers
Congratulations to Starleigh Grass
Alumna and current master’s student Starleigh Grass receives the 2011 BC Aboriginal Student Award A self-described “teacher, blogger, and mother” from the Tsilhqot’in Nation received the 2011 BC Aboriginal Student Award from The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society, in partnership with the Victoria Foundation. The recipient, Starleigh Grass, is currently on leave from […]
You want to be a teacher? Then get out of the classroom
UBC’s Okanagan campus education students go beyond their textbooks
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You want to be a teacher? Then get out of the classroom
UBC’s Okanagan campus education students go beyond their textbooks Vicki Green wants her students to get out of the classroom, especially when they become teachers. The associate professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus encourages the teachers of tomorrow to think beyond the classroom and search out alternative […]
4th Annual Interprofessional Workshop
On November 9th, UNC 200 will become a ‘village’ of over 140 students, faculty and community practitioners involved in nursing, social work and education. The purpose of the workshop is to model interprofessional practice through case studies and panel discussions that focus on issues of child welfare. As Dr. Judy Gillespie commented last year in […]
Passion for helping others leads to award
UBC student Sarah Bryan volunteers with Options for Sexual Health
UBC professor makes a difference half a world away
Susan Crichton helping teach faculty in Pakistan
New book publication: Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens
Veronica Gaylie, associate professor of education, has just published a […]
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Campus Support for Graduate Students
Dr. Susan Crichton, Director of Graduate Programs, introduced special campus friends during orientation… Beginning on the Mezzanine of the EME building, Dr. Susan Crichton welcomed incoming graduate students to the Faculty of Education. In her remarks, Dean Lynn Bosetti encouraged the students to think, engage and challenge not only themselves, but also challenge their professors […]
Teaching and learning a life-long pursuit
Learn to teach, teach to learn – that is the mantra of the Faculty of Education.