TLEF Grant 2019 – 2021: Weaving together Arts with STEM
Weaving together Arts with STEM: Creating a living repository of pedagogical resources for UBC B.Ed., Graduate and Diploma Students Duration 2 Years Initiation 04/01/2019 Project Summary The BC curriculum emphasizes big ideas, inquiry, interdisciplinarity, and Indigenous ways of knowing. This unto itself poses an immense challenge to a Faculty of 700+ B.Ed., 800+ Diploma, 1100+ […]
Fostering Understandings of Culture in French Teacher Education through Technology
The digital culture of the computer has become our students’ way of learning, thinking, and communicating. Slowly but surely it has transformed what it means to learn a foreign language, what we mean when we talk of ‘communicating’, ‘negotiating meaning’, and, ultimately, ‘understanding the other’ (Kramsch, 2013 p. xii)
WestCast 2019 – A chance to explore, learn, reflect and share with others
Over the past school year, I have had the opportunity to work on a small Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) project dedicated to developing French teacher candidates understandings of technology and open education resources. Our team has conducted workshops, developed online resources on Scarfe Digital Sandbox and worked alongside French teacher candidates. As part […]
TLEF 2016-2017: Teacher Candidate Reflections
Thank you to the many Teacher Candidates who participated so actively in classroom sessions, workshops, surveys, focus groups and drop-in consults. This project was created for you, based on the onboarding survey you completed in Summer 2016 and has led to further programming for current and future Teacher Candidates based on your ‘exit survey’ and […]
TLEF 2016-2017 Reflections: Project student team
Bruno Bachmann, Web Programmer & Project Assistant (May 2016 – September 2016) Working at ETS was a critical starting point to my career as a programmer. Entering the professional sphere can be a scary transition from being a student, but I feel that ETS made that transition seamless for me. Developing the Scarfe Digital Sandbox […]