Maker Days movement shifts learning across BC schools
Educators are reclaiming ‘making’ in classrooms across BC The University of British Columbia (UBC), in partnership with The Industry Training Authority (ITA), piloted 5 ‘Maker Days’ in Kelowna, Sicamous, and Maple Ridge as a way of introducing trades and technology and experiential learning opportunities from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The Maker movement encourages a shift […]
Innovative Learning Centre and Industry Training Authority bring Maker Days to BC schools
Get ready to roll-up your sleeves – Maker Day is coming to BC elementary and high schools. The Industry Training Authority (ITA), in partnership with UBC, is piloting ‘Maker Days’ as a way of introducing trades and technology and experiential learning opportunities from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Maker Day is an approach pioneered by the […]
Kids, kindness, and giant ears
UBC researches how schoolchildren learn the language of kindness The quality of being friendly and considerate with concern for others is the basis for a new study of Grades 1-8 to determine how Canadian kids perceive acts of kindness. John Tyler Binfet, a professor in The University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Education, is exploring […]
$1.2-million gift helps UBC educators promote mindfulness
Donation helps Okanagan campus Faculty of Education launch new program A Colorado educator and philanthropist has donated $1.2 million to the Faculty of Education to create a program of mindfulness at UBC’s Okanagan campus. SMARTinEducation (SMART) is a program in mindfulness—the intentional cultivation of moment-by-moment focused attention and awareness—for educators. Research into the neurobiology of […]
Assistant Professor Dr. Scott Douglas publishes new book about writing for post-secondary
Students have a new resource with the Oxford University Press release of Academic Inquiry: Writing for Post-secondary Success, by the Faculty of Education’s Dr. Scott Douglas. In Academic Inquiry, Douglas uses authentic undergraduate content, including business, engineering, and health sciences, to guide and inspire student’s writing. Each unit is theme-based and teaches one essential rhetorical […]
Distinguished visiting scholar discusses teaching religion in schools
The Faculty of Education welcomes Rev. Dr. Philip Raymont. What: What are universities for? Who: Rev. Dr. Philip Raymont When: Thursday, October 3, 3- 4:30 p.m. Where: 247 Science Building, UBC’s Okanagan campus, Kelowna What: Teaching Religion in Schools Who: Rev. Dr. Philip Raymont When: Tuesday, October 8, 3- 4:30 p.m. Where: Centre for Mindful […]
Angela Finley recipient of Faculty of Education’s Vicki Green Graduate Award
Interdisciplinary student connected to nature and sustainable practices.
From the London’s financial district to UBC’s Faculty of Education
Former banker Walid Muslih decided ‘I want to be in the classroom’ It wasn’t long ago that Walid Muslih toiled in the high-rises of London and New York, a successful banker analyzing debt capital markets. Working in the towers of big-city financial districts—suit and tie’d—his “exciting, always changing” career rode epic waves such as the […]
PhD Student leads teacher candidates in Tanzania
Bourne and her team sought to invest in a Tanzanian community by creating school books in Swahili and English for a Tanzanian classroom, but the investment —to the Canadian classroom—is just getting started. It is hard to imagine the petite woman with sun-kissed hair and trendy blue capris anywhere except in the Okanagan. The […]