This M.Ed. will focus on school and classroom processes and practices that support Aboriginal learners using educational frameworks, theory and approaches that focus on Indigenous knowledge.  The program is designed to help educators build their knowledge and understanding of indigenous worldviews and education.

While the program is hosted by the LLED department, instruction will involve other departments in the Faculty as well, giving students a wide variety of viewpoints and learning communities to communicate with.

Dr. Joanne Archibald and Dr. Jan Hare will co-lead this cohort.

You can find more information on the program web site.

Here are the pertinent details:

Location: Vancouver

Start Date: July, 2012

Application Deadline:  March 1, 2012

There are currently two Information Sessions planned for this cohort.

Information Session #1

Wednesday, January 18

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Vancouver School Board office

Information Session #2

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Vancouver School Board Office

Please see the program web site for all other information about this program, including how to apply.

The deadline’s coming up, so apply today!

This program is being offered by the Educational Psychology and Special Education (ECPS) department here at UBC.

From the program web site:

“The UBC M.Ed. in Counselling Psychology (Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling) offers an evidence-informed, state of the art, interactive, and engaging graduate program. The program may include orientation and/or seminars at UBC or affiliated clinical sites, with a distance option for those who are not able to attend in person.”

For further information on the generous support the program has received, as well as information on how to apply, please see the program web site.

Also, for further information on the program, please see the ECPS site.

Here are the details:

Location: Online

Start Date: September 2012

Program Length: 3 years

Application Deadline: February 10, 2011

If you have questions about applying, you can also check out our 14-minute podcast on application procedures and things that you need to know, just recently posted on this blog.

The Master of Museum Education focuses on teaching and learning outside of the classroom, bringing together museum educators, community educators, and teachers.

From the program web site:

This program will provide the necessary skills and knowledge for careers as educators in informal settings such as museums, locally and globally, and to support classroom-based teachers in expanding their use of the community as a learning site. The program model is one that recognizes the need for contextualizing museum education curriculum in both home country context (which has its own unique social and political context) and in the Canadian cultural context of museum education, in which practices may be conceptualized in other beneficial ways to that of the student’s own country of origin. The end result are graduating students that are then better able to influence the systems in their own countries with strengthened capacities to introduce beneficial reforms around museum education.

This program will be offered on the UBC campus, so you will need to travel to campus for your courses.

Here are the details of the program:

Location: UBC Campus

Start Date: September 2012

Application Deadline: March 1, 2012

An information session for this program has been scheduled for Tuesday, December 6, from 4:00 – 5:00 pm. It will be held at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St., Vancouver, BC. If you can’t be there, you can also join us online.

Please see the program web site for further information, including how to apply.

This program is being offered in association with four separate school districts: Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows, Langely, Coquitlam, and Mission. The exact location of the cohort has yet to be decided, though it will be convenient to those four districts.

This is the second iteration of this highly successful cohort.

From the web site:

The Special Education area concerns the education of students with exceptionalities, such as students with visual impairments, physical disabilities, emotional or behavioural disorders, learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, and those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

The Master’s program focuses on both research and practice. Topics addressed in the Master’s programs include cognitive, language and social development, learning and instructional design, cultural and individual differences in relation to students with exceptionalities.

Here are the relevant details for the program, though please see the program site for full details.

Location: TBA

Start Date: July 2012

Program Length: 3 years

Application Deadline: December 1, 2011

Information sessions have been scheduled for the following dates. Please see the program web site for specific details on location.

Thursday, October 20 - Coquitlam – 3:30 – 4:30 pm

Tuesday, October 25 - Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows – 4:30 – 5:30 pm

Tuesday, November 1 - Langley – 4:30 – 5:30 pm

Applications are now open, so apply today!

If you have questions about applying, you can also check out our 14-minute podcast on application procedures and things that you need to know, just recently posted on this blog.

The program takes place in Vancouver, with three weeks over two Summers in Montreal, in association with the Language & Literacy Education department.

Each course in the program can be taken in Vancouver or via web-conferencing, so you don’t have to be in the BC’s Lower Mainland in order to take this program.

Since this is a French Immersion program, it is required that students be very comfortable with both written and spoken French.

Known as FRM3, this is the third iteration of this highly successful cohort.

From the web page:

Action research on learning a second language or on a theme related to French as a second language forms the core of this program. As a result, the program will include courses in research methods as well as courses related to bilingualism and the acquisition and teaching of a second language. In addition, students will investigate a specific topic relevant to their own classrooms.

There is also a French language version of the web site here.

Here are the details for the program:

Location: Vancouver/Montreal

Start Date: September 2012

Program Length: 2 years

Application Deadline: January 27, 2012

An information webcast has been scheduled for October 26, from 4-5 pm Vancouver time. For instructions on how to connect with this webcast, please see the program web page linked above.

Face-to-face information sessions are being planned right now, and information on those will appear on the program web page as well.

Applications are now open, so apply today!

If you have questions about applying, you can also check out our 14-minute podcast on application procedures and things that you need to know, just recently posted on this blog.

It takes place in Vancouver, and is offered with the department of Educational Studies here at UBC, in association with the Vancouver School Board. Known as VEL3, it is the third iteration of this very successful cohort.

From the program web site:

The thoughtful practice of educational leadership in a context of school district change involves engaging with multiple constituencies – school and community-based. Constituencies hold conflicting social, political and cultural claims regarding the aims of education in a democratic and pluralist society.

Educational leadership is a situated ethical practice that extends the boundaries of schooling into the community by engaging with the social justice issues at stake.

Here are the details for the program, including two information sessions already scheduled.

Location: Vancouver

Start Date: April 2012

Program Length: 2 years

Application Deadline: January 3, 2012

Two information sessions have already been scheduled, both a the Vancouver School Board offices.

Monday, October 24: 4:00 – 5:30 pm

Wednesday, November 2: 4:30 – 6:30 pm

Applications are now open, so apply today!

If you have questions about applying, you can also check out our 14-minute podcast on application procedures and things that you need to know, just recently posted on this blog.

From the web site:

One of the most active topics of research at the moment, Digital Learning and Curriculum (DLC) is spurred by the recent realization that, when it comes to technology, disciplinary (or content) knowledge of effective teachers is more a matter of understanding deep associations among familiar concepts than it is about taking more advanced courses in technology.

In a sense, this Master’s program is focused on developing better understandings of what teachers already know – seeking to enhance teachers’ knowledge of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) not by studying more about computer hardware or software individually, but by unpacking concepts collaboratively (e.g., identifying and elaborating metaphors, analogies, applications, exemplars, gestures, and other experiences that contribute to the ‘life’ of an idea).

DLC is thus designed for those teachers who are seeking to enhance professional practice by developing their educational technology knowledge through collaborative study.

Here are the details for this program:

Location: Vancouver/Richmond

Start Date: July 2012

Program Length: 2 Years

Application Deadline: January 15, 2012

This program is offered by the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy.

Information Sessions are being scheduled for the Fall, beginning September, and will appear on the  DLC2 page on the EPLT web site when finalized. You can also find more information, including tuition, application procedures, etc, on this page.

If you have questions about applying, you can also check out our 14-minute podcast on application procedures and things that you need to know, just recently posted on this blog.

Not to mention the fact that Jenny and I haven’t done a episode of Down the Hall in a month, due to vacation (another episode is coming next week, though).

We didn’t want you to get lonely!

In the meantime, Yvette Kharoubeh (Another senior program assistant here at EPLT) and Jenny recorded this nifty podcast to walk you through the often-confusing procedures for applying to our cohorts.

Please see our Graduate Cohort page for information on the cohorts that are being offered. And keep checking back, as there will be more.

Just click on the link below to go to our podcast page where you can either listen to it on the page or you can download it. Or, you can play it in the handy web player just below the link.

This event is open to the public, come see what our Phys.Ed. grad students are up to!

The full program will be posted on the page for the new TGfU cohort next week.

We are currently accepting applications for that cohort as well, if you’re interested.

Come and help our students celebrate their achievement!

From the web site:

Teachers who use this approach see their students as active participants (mentally, physical, emotional) in the process of learning games. As we all know, students and adults alike learn in a variety of ways and progress at different rates. Knowing that students are always at different stages of understanding, teachers can use the TGfU model to focus in on individual, social and contextual processes.

Students learn about the games presented through a series of modified games. These games are designed to highlight tactical problems – situations that engage students and help them develop the skills they need at that time. Students do practice skills, but in the context of a game rather than separate from it. As they play, they consider what they might best do, before they are taught how best to do it.

Here are the details for this program:

Location: Vancouver

Start Date: July 2012

Program Length: 2.5 Years

Application Deadline: December 1, 2011

This program is offered by the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy.

There is currently one information session scheduled, in Coquitlam, though there could very well be more in the future.

Date: Wednesday, June 8

Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Location: Staff Development Department, SD#43
1100 Winslow Avenue , Coquitlam

Please be sure to bring your questions about the program!

More information on the program, including tuition and course schedule, can be found on the program web site.