Our Faculty and Instructional staff is among the best in the world.
We'd like you to meet a few of these dynamic individuals.
Excellence in Teacher Education
Traci Baillie, a teacher educator extraordinaire has taught for UBC’s BEd elementary program and acted as faculty advisor many years, working with teacher candidates specializing in Early Childhood Years. Now she’s about to launch our new elementary cohort TELL (Teaching English Language Learners) as a faculty advisor and coordinator. Besides providing expert instruction in the Early Childhood Education program, Traci develops and teaches online courses for teachers, who are updating their skills, and teaches Education Studies (social justice) classes. In nominating Traci for her well-deserved 2009 Sessional and Lecturer Teaching Prize, her contributions were described in this way:
Along with course content and modeling teaching strategies, Traci also promotes life-long teaching learning with discussions of research methods — how to find the questions/how to find the answers; how to create rubrics that connect objectives with assessment; how to find and use resources. She has a sizable contribution to the labour of examining incoming applications, and altogether, a fine record of service, with current and past course development and extensive work as an FA (Faculty Advisor).
Excellence in French Education
Dr. Wendy Carr, coordinates the French Specialist (Elementary and Secondary) and FLAGS (French Language and Global Study) cohorts and is passionate about inspiring excellence in second language teaching. She is a master teacher, author of several French as second language (FSL) text resources, a provincial and national teacher leader and long-time Francophile. She played a key role in the implementation of intensive French in British Columbia, and she has conducted research into the effects of this approach on the English proficiency of English as Additional Language learners. As BC's rep on the National Council of the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers, she is actively involved in Canada-wide research and action related to pre-service and in-service teacher education.
Excellence in Art Education
2008 Canadian Artist and Art Educator of the Year, Dr. Kit Grauer is actively involved in art education associations at the local, national and international levels. Her interests include arts-based and image-based research, international issues in art education curriculum. Dr. Grauer spearheaded the Teaching from the HeArt elementary teaching cohort to honor the memory of Margaret Grauer that has teacher candidates working with artists at UBC and in their practicum schools.
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Excellence in Music Education
Jazz Musician and Music Educator, Dr. Peter Gouzouasis coordinates the FAME (Fine Arts & Media in Education) elementary cohort designed to prepare beginning teachers to implement creative, authentic applications of the arts and digital media across the K-7 curriculum with a strong focus on intelligent instructional strategies and tactics. Dr. Gouzouasis is the Chair of Music Education at the University of British Columbia. His numerous experiences with guitar include jazz studies with Joe Federico, Tom Giacabetti, and Joe Sgro, and Dennis Sandole and classical studies with David Baskin and Peter Segal. While contributing to current research in Music and Art Education at UBC, and working with the world renowned A/r/tography Research Group at UBC, he describes himself as:
...a lifelong learner of music and media, and a serious student of guitar and other fretted instruments and performance in jazz, North American folk, Celtic, and Greek music contexts.
Excellence in Teaching Principles and Communication
Principles of Teaching and Communication are two key courses youll take when you begin your Teacher Education program. Meet the Instructors and Faculty Advisors who teach these courses. We have an eclectic and dynamic group of people who contribute vast amounts of energy and experience to the education of our Teacher Candidates.
2008 Murray Elliot Award Winners for Outstanding Service to UBC's Teacher Education Program
The 2008 Murray Elliot Award for Outstanding Service to UBC's Teacher Education Program was recently presented to two remarkable UBC teacher educators: Dr. Anthony Clarke and Dr. Margot Filipenko.
Dr. Anthony Clarke is a founding member of the CITE elementary program option (Community and Inquiry for Teacher Education). CITE has always challenged the status quo and has sought to provide an integrated, inquiry driven, program for both teacher candidates and instructors. He is also well known for being the co-chair of Investigating Our Practices (IOP), a conference that provides a forum for practicing teachers to study their own practices. His outstanding reputation places him in high demand as a teacher education workshop facilitator around the province.
Dr. Clarke is also the 2009 recipient of the Association of BC Deans of Education Teacher Educator of the Year Award. Congratulations Tony!
Dr. Margot Filipenko has made significant and creative contributions to the Faculty of Education's Teacher Education Program. She is best known for her work in the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) elementary cohort. She has assisted in the successful institution of the ePortfolio across the program. More recently, she revised the EDUC 316 (Communications in Teaching) course to better reflect the needs of elementary educators particularly in the area of linguistic complexity. Her research investigates students' entry knowledge about language which will inform planning to overcome some major identified difficulties. In the Department of Languages and Literacy Education she has led course development, creating web-based resources to support collaborative learning. Her leadership turns into mentoring as instructors and teacher candidates attempt to emulate her inspirational teaching style.
Congratulations to Traci Baillie for winning the 
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