TEACHER EDUCATOR AWARD
I am very pleased to inform you that our colleague Dr. Linda Farr Darling is the winner of the TEACHER EDUCATOR award for outstanding service, presented by the Association of BC Deans of Education (ABCDE). Dr. Farr Darling is the Eleanor Rix Professor of Rural Education. The position builds on Linda’s work with a well-established Faculty of Education/UBC teacher education cohort located in the West Kootenays in the southeastern corner of British Columbia (WKTEP). She has provided exceptional mentoring of pre-service teachers whose aim is to teach in rural schools. She is also instrumental in bringing several exciting new changes to U.B.C.’s teacher education programs.