Courses

Dr. Carolyn Crippen

• A Foundation of Care: First to Serve, Then to Lead
• Healthy Learning Organizations
• Senior Administration: It’s all about Relationships
• Servant-Leadership in Schools/Districts: A Moral Imperative for Educators

Dr. Helen Raptis

• Administration: School Improvement Made Easy

Dr. Darlene Clover

• Adult and Lifelong Learning

Dr. Robert Dalton

• Art Education: Frill or Essential?
• Building Respect through Multicultural Art Education

Dr. Timothy Hopper

• Children’s Global Arts

Dr. Jason Price

• Mass Media and Education: What Is Critical Media Literacy?
• Youth Media Production: Promise and Possibility
• New Media and Education: Future of the Cyborg Student

Dr. Wanda Hurren

• Found in the Halls: Arts-based Spatial Exploration Working with Images and Poetry

Dr. Michelle Wiebe

• Assessment as an Integral Part of Learning in Art
• Integrating Design in Art Education
• Training Students in the Use of Self-Assessment in Art

Dr. Michael Emme

• Integrating Digital Storytelling into School Culture

Dr. Ian Cameron

• Better Tests
• Measuring Affective Outcomes
• Program Evaluation at the District or School Level: What the Ministry Requires
• Reading, Writing and the Foundations Skill Assessment (FSA) Setting Standards

Kindra Harte

• Assessment of Creative Works, Rubric Development
• Assessment Practices for the Second Language Classroom (grades 5–8): Peer, Self and Teacher Assessment (including Portfolio)
• Provincial Examinations and Assessment Practices from the Ministry of Education
• Setting Up Grade Books According to Prescribed Learning Outcomes

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Dealing with the Fraser Report
• Interpreting FSA and other Provincial Assessment Results

Dr. Helen Raptis

• School Improvements Made Easy

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Assessment for Learning: Alternative Authentic Approaches to Assessment

Dr. Leslee Francis-Pelton

• Using CBL and TI84+ in the Classroom

Dr. Valerie Irvine

• Developing a Personal Learning Network using Social Media: What’s in it for me? and how do I get started? (e.g., twitter, blogs)
• Networked learning in the classroom: Making global connections
• How to Communicate with Teachers and Students Online: Developing your Classroom Website and Communication Protocol (with emphasis on parent engagement)
• Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century: What does personalized learning look like?
• So you're going to become an iPad classroom? Things to know to get you started
• Digital Citizenship: Leaving Digital Footprints Others Can Follow
• Cyberbullying
• Distributed and Mobile Learning

Dr. Donna McGhie-Richmond

• Assistive Technology Augmentative Communication

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Video Game Learning in Your Classroom

Dr. Tim Pelton

• Creating Comics to Communicate Understanding in Math and Science (grades 5-9)
• “Why Math Makes Sense” (K-7)

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Gender Issues in Schooling

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Issues of Gender in the Classroom

Kindra Harte

• Implementation of New Resources and New Curriculum for the Second Language Classroom
• Provincial Practice and Resource Evaluation
• Resource Evaluation for the Second Language Classroom

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Integrating Curriculum for Middle School

Dr. Robert Dalton

• Building Respect through Multicultural Art Education

Kindra Harte

• Literacy in the Second Language Classroom
• Web-based/ Online Learning for the Second Language Classroom

Dr. Graham McDonough

• Using Parliamentary Simulations to Promote Moral and Community Development
• Discussing Controversial Issues in Religious Education

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Civic and Legal Literacies among Youth
• Teacher Leadership: Creating Democratic Schools
• 21st Century Leadership: Leading in New Times
• Knowing the Leader Within: Designing and Developing a Personal Leadership Plan
• Developing a Leader-ful Organization: Strategies for Success
• Through the Looking Glass: Historical and Contemporary Trends in BC Educational Policy and Politics
• Leading for Learning: Teacher Action Research and Professional Inquiry
• “Who me… lead?” Understanding and Practicing Teacher Leadership
• Inclusive and Socially Just Leadership: Tools and Action Planning 

Dr. Jason Price

• Controversial Issues and Community Development in Schools
• Convention on the Rights of the Child: Implications for Schools
• Educators’ Philosophies: Choice, Voice and Controversy
• Simulations and Social Studies: Creating Change through Critical Participation
• Work Horses with Feathers: Compulsory Schools and Indigenous Students

Dr. Helen Raptis

• Integrating the ESL Learner into the Mainstream Classroom

Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France

• Multiculturalism, Diversity and Language
• Internationalizing the Curriculum

Dr. Carolyn Crippen

• A Foundation of Care: First to Serve, Then to Lead

Donna Dunning

• Accommodating Personality Differences in the Classroom

Dr. Gina Harrison

• Intervention-based Assessment of Learning Difficulties in the Inclusive Classroom

Dr. Donna McGhie-Richmond

• Assessments
• Differentiated Instruction
• Instructional Programming to Support Student Participation

Dr. Viviene Temple

• Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Physical Education

Dr. Leslee Francis-Pelton

• First Nations Games of Chance

Dr. Gloria Snively

• Incorporating Aboriginal Knowledge into Science, Social Studies and Environmental Education Classrooms
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom

Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France

• Indigenous/Aboriginal Education and Knowledge
• Indigenous/Aboriginal Curriculum Implementation
• Indigenizing the Curriculum
• Indigenous/Aboriginal Early Childhood Initiatives

Dr. Wanda Hurren

• Found in the Halls: Arts-based Spatial Exploration
• Working with Images and Poetry
• Mapwork: Exploring Notions of Place and Identity

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Geotrekking: Using the Global Positioning System to Support Problem-based Learning in Math, Science and Geography (grades 5–12)

Dr. Catherine Gaul

• Children, Fitness and Sport Medicine Education: Options for Preparing for Medical School
• Nutrition for Health and Performance
• Physical Activity and the Adolescent Female
• The Human Body: How it Works

Dr. Helen Raptis

• Understanding our Educational Past

Dr. Deborah Begoray

• Literacy Across the Curriculum
• Literacy and Health
• Multiple Literacies
• Secondary English Language Arts

Dr. Ian Cameron

• Improving Comprehension
• Parents and Reading Programs

Dr. Gina Harrison

• Literacy-based LD: Linking Current Research to Enhanced Practice

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Civic and Legal Literacies among Youth

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Gender and Pedagogy (Boy’s Literacy) Media and Popular Culture in the Classroom
• 21st Century Literacy

Christine Tippett

• Children’s Literature Connections (K–5)

Donna Dunning

• Learning and Teaching Styles
• Managing Change

Dr. Tim Pelton

• Using Audible Response Systems to Engage All Learners

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Developing Learning Communities

Dr. Leslee Francis-Pelton

• Calculator-based Activities for the Classroom
• Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI): A Framework for Understanding Children’s Mathematical Thinking
• Computer-based Activities for the Math Classroom
• First Nations Games of Chance
• Games and Activities for Development of Fraction Understanding
• Middle School Math Activities: Fractions, Ratio and Proportion, Integers, Algebra
• Non-routine Problem Solving in Mathematics
• Numeracy Activities and Teaching Strategies
• Numeracy Issues Related to Gambling
• The Open-ended Approach to Mathematics: The Japanese Model for Lessons
• Uncertainty, Chance and Data Analysis Activities

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Geotrekking: Using the Global Positioning System to Support Problem-based Learning in Math, Science and Geography (grades 5–12)
• Using Robotics to Teach Mathematics and Science (grades 5–9)
• Creating Comics to Communicate Understanding in Math and Science (grades 5-9)

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Using Robotics to Teach Mathematics and Science (grades 5–9)

Dr. Carolyn Crippen

• Health Learning Organizations: Where Are You Now?

Donna Dunning

• Career and Life Planning
• Enhancing Communication

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Knowing the Leader Within

Dr. Catherine Gaul

• Children, Fitness and Sport
• Medical Education: Options for Preparing for Medical School
• Nutrition for Health and Performance
• Physical Activity and the Adolescent Female
• The Human Body: How It Works
• Women and Exercise

Dr. Sandra Gibbons

• Assessment in Physical Education
• Curriculum Design—Elementary and Secondary
• Gender Equity in Physical Education
• Teambuilding Activities in Physical Education

Dr. Timothy Hopper

• Action Research for Teachers
• Coaching Tennis from Beginner to Advanced Levels
• Teaching Creative Dance
• Teaching Games for Understanding
• Use of Technology in Physical Education

Dr. Viviene Temple

• Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Physical Education
• Introduction to Lacrosse

Dr. David Blades

• A Night with the Stars: Exploring Multicultural Approaches to Science Education through Astronomy (grades 3–8)

Dr. Wanda Hurren

• Mapwork: Arts-based Approaches to Paying Attention to Our Surroundings

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Geotrekking: Using the Global Positioning System to Support Problem-based Learning in Math, Science and Geography (grades 5–12)
• Using Robotics to Teach Mathematics and Science (grades 4–12)

Dr. Gloria Snively

• Exploring Ponds
• Exploring Seashores
• Dilemmas for Exploring Marine Concepts and Issues
• The Ocean as a Source of Inspiration for Integrating Subject Areas
• The Use of Games, Role Plays, Guided Fantasies

Christine Tippett

• Infusing Reading and Writing in Science Instruction (K–8)

Dr. Mijung Kim

• Inquiry-based Approach in K-7 Science Teaching
• Scientific and Socioscientific Argumentation
• Issues of Science, Technology, Society and the Environment (STSE)

Dr. Michele Tanaka

• Transformative Inquiry

Dr. Catherine McGregor         

• Leading for Learning