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+ graduate students and thousands of alumni. In one short year, we educate teachers who will shape BC’s future. We all have the best intentions, but with our large fragmented Faculty, it is extremely challenging to integrate our courses, curricula, and pedagogies beyond a limited subset of subjects (noted within the 2018 external review). This two-year proposal addresses this challenge by creating a Faculty-wide repository consisting of interdisciplinary resources designed by students, instructors, and staff that respond to the new BC curriculum. As a common denominator, we chose science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) education that crosses disciplinary boundaries and weaves the arts and the sciences in order to educate teachers who are ready to embrace the 21st century challenges.
Funding Details Small TLEF grant – Faculty of Education, UBC Vancouver
Year 1: 2019/2020
Project Partners:
Principal Investigator: Lorrie Miller, Program Coordinator / Lecturer, Teacher Education Office
Co-Investigators:
Marina Milner-Bolotin, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy
Yvonne Dawydiak, Learning Design Manager, Teacher Education
Funded Amount $28,282
Student Team:
Eric Lee, Technological Project Assistant, Webmaster, TC Tech Coach
Scott Robertson, GAA (May-Nov 2019)
Nashwa Khadr, GAA (Jan – present 2020)
Belen Guillemin Montes, GAA (Jan – present 2020)
Year 2: 2020/2021
Principal Investigator: Yvonne Dawydiak, Learning Design Manager, Teacher Education, Faculty of Education
Co-Investigators:
Lorrie Miller, Program Coordinator / Lecturer, Teacher Education Office, Faculty of Education
Marina Milner-Bolotin, Associate Professor, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education
Funded Amount $21,682
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support for this project provided by UBC Vancouver students via the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.
Project Outcomes
(more to come upon completion August 2021)
