New journal hosted by UBC supports students from diverse language backgrounds
BC teachers, administrators, and researchers working with students speaking English as an additional language will benefit from a new journal created by the Association of British Columbia teachers of English as an additional language (BC TEAL), and edited by a UBC researcher. The BC TEAL Journal was created as a resource to promote scholarship […]
Conference “spotlights” UBC Okanagan professors
Research and publications from the Faculty of Education were recognized nationally at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education Conference (CSSE) on May 23rd, 2016. The annual CSSE conference gathers professors and students from across Canada to share in innovative, practice, praxis and research. This year the conference was held at the University of […]
Education faculty join forces to teach BC Curriculum Competencies in a fun, innovative way
UBC professors create a Learning Arcade, hosted by Quigley Elementary The future of education will be very different from traditional classroom learning if UBC professors in the Faculty of Education have anything to say about it. On December 4th, professors Stephen Berg, Robert Campbell, Scott Douglas and Greg Wetterstrand decided to combine their teaching disciplines […]
UBC Professor receives funding to study vocabulary and standardized English language testing
Prof. Scott Douglas receives $12,000 to investigate test-taker’s spoken and written vocabulary
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 […]