The Supplemental Application Form includes questions about your practical experiences (you can provide up to three) and your educational goals through a personal essay.
Experience requirements
To meet the admission requirements, you must have a minimum of 75 hours of practical experience (volunteer or paid), preferably at the age level you wish to teach. Although we consider all relevant experiences, we strongly recommend current experiences within the last two years.
A range and variety of instructional experiences is encouraged to better prepare for the program. Typical experiences for applicants include but are not limited to working in school classrooms as a volunteer or assistant, teaching dance, coaching team sports or working as a summer camp counselor. While we recommend classroom experience, it is not required. Experience in international settings is valuable, but we recommend experience in Canadian settings.
Normally an applicant without experience with school-aged children and/or youth will not be admitted to the program.
You may provide us with information on up to three experiences in the supplemental application.
Personal essay
Recognizing that you may want to plan, write, and/or polish your personal essay before pasting it into the form, the essay question is provided below for your convenience.
Becoming an educator opens doors to many opportunities to teach, learn, and contribute in a variety of contexts including but not exclusive to schools. What are your goals as an educator? Highlight and provide examples of the qualities and experiences you bring to the challenge of becoming an educator. (Maximum 500 words)
You will receive an automatic email with a confirmation that we received your application. This email will be from noreply@qemailserver.com. This confirmation will include a copy of your responses. Please check your junk and spam folders. If you do not receive this email within 48hrs of submitting your application, please email us at education.ubco@ubc.ca.
Post-submission changes to this form
After completing and submitting an OSE Supplemental Application Form, you are allowed to re-submit a second fully completed Supplemental Application Form. OSE will review the most recent submission.
We strongly encourage you to save copies of each of your written answers in a Word document and copy and paste them into the form to complete it. This way, if you choose to redo any questions, or if you wish to modify your essay, you won’t have to re-type the entire application form.
Please note: If you are applying to UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan you will be required to submit your experience summaries and personal essay to both campuses.