Award winners from the 2010/11 BEd program
On November 22, 2011 the Teacher Education Office celebrated award winners from the 2010/11 Bachelor of Education program. The event took place in the Neville Scarfe Building at UBC and was catered by the VCC Culinary Arts team led by Chef John-Carlo Felicella.
To view event photos, please visit our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/UBCTeacherEd) or Flickr.
Friday, January 20, 2012
10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
UBC Student Union Building (SUB), 6138 Student Union Boulevard
This is BC's largest teacher recruiting event. At the fair, teacher candidates have the opportunity to meet and present themselves to recruiting officers from BC school districts, to officials from school districts in other provinces and territories, and to international recruiters seeking teachers for a variety of countries.
Students: visit UBC Career Services website to find out more information about this career fair.
Employers: if you are interested in participating, please visit Career Services for more information.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Foyer in front of Teacher Education Office,
Neville Scarfe Building (2125 Main Mall)
Every year, the Teacher Education Office holds a used book sale to raise charitable donations for Lower Mainland animal shelters. To date, we have raised nearly $5,500
in donations.
All proceeds are distributed to volunteer charities which rescue abused and abandoned animals and operate
no-kill shelters.
If you have re-sellable books to donate, please drop them off anytime with Maureen Shepherd in the TEO up to and including day of sale.
Please help us to help “those who cannot speak for themselves.” Thank you for your support.
BCTF Day on Campus at UBC
Monday, December 5, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
For detailed descriptions of the workshops, please see the registration form.
Cost is $20. This covers registration, continental breakfast, and full lunch.
Please complete the registration form and submit it, with the registration fee, to the Teacher Education Office by Friday, November 18, 2011.
Registration fees are non-refundable after November 18, 2011.
On Friday, November 3rd, the Faculty of Education hosted its annual United Way Barbecue Fundraiser outside of Scarfe. Thanks to all the volunteers and to all who came and purchased a ticket in support of
this worthwhile cause.
Dear Teacher Candidates:
By now you are well aware that teaching is demanding and complex work, made more difficult if we try to do it in isolation or without sharing and exploring our understandings together. In order to better understand and improve our practice, many of us engage in classroom, program or institution-based investigations focusing on the what, the how and the why of our practice.
On May 5, 2012 UBC hosts the 15th Annual Investigating Our Practices Conference, where practicing teachers, university educators, graduate students and teacher candidates from different educational contexts (schools, universities and colleges) come together to share their questions, investigations and understandings about their practice. The conference emphasizes dialogue among participants; presentations are intended to provoke and inform discussion.
With this in mind, the organizing committee of IOP would like to invite you, UBC teacher candidates, to present and discuss your inquiry projects, completed in EDUC 310/311 Principles of Teaching, with other educators at our next conference. If you are interested, do check out the IOP website.
For more information about IOP 2012, visit www.eplt.educ.ubc.ca/iop or contact Judy Paley at 604.822.2733.
Big congratulations to all recipients of the 2010/11 BEd program awards! For a full list of award winners, please visit this page under Resources. A full list of Bachelor of Education awards can be found here.
If you know an outstanding UBC Teacher Education graduate who is currently teaching in a school (any grade level), nominate them for a Teacher Education Alumni Award.
Our annual awards night celebration is taking place in late November. More details to come.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Presented by the UBC Faculty of Education
Science and Mathematics Educators and students from the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Teacher Education Program and the larger Faculty of Education community at UBC invite guests from 5 to 105 years old to help us celebrate science and mathematics teaching and learning through active participation in exciting hands-on and minds-on science and mathematics activities suitable for all those with curious and inquiring minds.
Please RSVP in advance to Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin indicating how many people will be attending.
They will limit attendance to the first 200 registrants.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
10:00 a.m – 12:30 p.m.
Math and Science Labs, Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
Hosted by the Faculty of Education
Thursday, November 3, 2011
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Front entrance of Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
$5 – veggie/beef burger and a drink
Please join us on November 3rd for the Faculty of Education's third annual United Way Barbecue Fundraiser.
For five dollars, you will get a burger (veggie or beef) and a drink. Purchase of food also enters you into our secret prize draw! Advanced tickets are on sale now at the Teacher Education Office (604.822.5242).
2010 prizes generously provided by VANOC.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 310, Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
Research indicates a wide range of factors affect teachers' motivation for and commitment to teaching, especially early in their careers. Our research seeks to understand these factors better by examining relationships between student teachers' experiences in their teacher education programs and their perceptions of teaching efficacy, engagement in and commitment to teaching, and stress associated with teaching. Teacher candidates in the Self-Regulated Learning, Social and Emotional Learning, Problem-Based Learning, Intermediate, and Kindergarten/Primary cohorts have participated in our study. We will begin our presentation with a brief review of research findings on teacher motivation and well-being and then describe our project—what we are doing and learning and what comes next.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 310, Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
Samson Nashon, George Belliveau, Elizabeth Jordan, Joanne Melville, Lisa Loutzenheiser, Karen Meyer, Marina Milner-Bolotin and Cynthia Nicol
In the summer of 2011, a group of eight faculty members from the Faculty of Education at UBC (six of them are from EDCP) visited Dadaab Refugee camp in North-Eastern Kenya. As of September 2011, more than 400,000 refugees are residing in this camp and despite the dire need for education there are only six secondary schools in the camps. Moi University in Kenya, UBC Faculty of Education and Windle Trust Kenya are collaborating on providing a two-year diploma for Somali refugee teachers at the secondary level. This seminar will provide an opportunity to share experiences on the visit, to discuss issues and questions related to the project.
Light refreshments provided.
Somali-born Canadian musician and rapper K'naan visits Dadaab, Kenya with CTV's Seamus O'Regan on W5.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC
Learn about great teaching ideas, books and hands-on activities to engage children and teens in rich science experiences. Not only will you become aware of a wide array of science books and programs for youth, but you will learn some science yourself!
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Jeanette Whitton, Environmental biologist and Co-Director, Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Featured Scientist:
Video vignettes of Dr. Wayne Maddison, Curator of the Research Collections at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum; Dr. Amanda Vincent, Project Seahorse researcher and Dr. Eric Taylor, UBC Fish Collection.
Plus a sneak preview of the Discovery Channel DVD "The Blue Whale Project."
Featured BC Science Writers:
Fiona Bayrock, Yes Mag contributor and author of many science books including The Ocean Explorer's Handbook and States of Matter: A Question and Answer Book; Tanya Kyi, author of the 50 Questions series; Cynthia Nicolson, author of Totally Human: Why We Look and Act the Way We Do; Barry Shell, author of Sensational Scientists; Shar Levine & Leslie Johnstone, authors of over 70 hands-on science books such as Kitchen Science and Jim Wiese, Surrey high school teacher and author of over 40 books including Spy Science, Rocket Science and Cosmic Science.
To register, complete and mail in this form, along with a cheque, or register online.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 209, Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
For more information, please contact Gary Rupert.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Room 310, Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
CREATE is a faculty-wide initiative established by Dr. Rita Irwin, Associate Dean of Teacher Education programs, to inspire innovations in teacher education at UBC.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
8:45 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Room 100, Main Floor of Scarfe Building, 2125 Main Mall
Please consult with your orientation schedule. There will be two sessions presented, one after the other on Tuesday morning.
Both orientation sessions will be led by Teacher Education Practicum Coordinator for Secondary Years, John Yamamoto. See John's blog for more Secondary Practicum news or follow him on Twitter @practicumnews.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Hebb Theatre, 2045 East Mall
Teacher Education Office
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Tel: 604.822.5242
Fax: 604.822.8227
E-mail: teacher.ed@ubc.ca
