Volume Four of “The Interpreter”, our graduate student newsletter prepared by the peer advising team, is ready for your reading (and viewing – the artwork and layout are amazing) pleasure.   This issue includes: Two student profiles: Yifei & Elizabeth Sarah Meli’s incredible art, Buttons for eyes Hearty congratulations to our graduates And more! The […]

Government identifies teachers’ rights and working conditions as “impediments to progress” At the provincial bargaining table in June, BCPSEA chief negotiator Jacquie Griffiths demanded key concessions from teachers: eliminate post and fill, transfer, evaluation, dismissal, professional development, and hours-of-work provisions. Following that, on November 7, government representative Claire Avison made a presentation at the provincial […]

Please forward the below information to your students.  All sessions are free of charge and take place at the Graduate Student Centre, 6371 Crescent Rd and registration opens the week prior to the event.   Space is still available for this week’s sessions: IBM Centennial Lecture: How does a business or individual continue evolving with […]

James & I were discussing the issues surrounding BC’s teachers working only “essential services” since October 7th, and realized how little we understood the topic. In case you’re interested, James found 2 helpful articles on The Tyee that help provide some historical perspective. We thought others might appreciate following some current issues, after being steeped […]

I was very pleased to receive this announcement regarding breastfeeding spaces & change tables in Scarfe. As many graduate students have children, I feel that this is a small step in recognizing the reality that women can and are both mothers & students. Thank you! ___ A recent initiative has created Breastfeeding friendly spaces at […]

At our recent peer advising meeting we started chatting about electronic books, and thought we’d open up the discussion to all the e-geeks out there. What’s your favourite way to read articles and e-books: Kindle, ipad, Kobos…? Do you know about Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/)? What about: http://calibre-ebook.com/ (open source e-book software for Mac, PC, Linux)? […]

The American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting is coming to Vancouver in April 2012. As you know, deadline for submission is July 22nd, 2011. If you are thinking of submitting and need a bit of help, here are some helpful resources. 1) AERA Graduate Student Council (AERA GSC) tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDeBZZwqMI0 –the most helpful 5 […]

Following up from Marc Higgins’ well-received workshop on Atlas.ti, a qualitative research methods software tool, here are a few resources you may find helpful: Marc made his fancy presentation using prezi. If you want to see Marc’s presentation or learn how to use prezi for making your own presentations, visi: http://prezi.com/-zgybzvhrrcd/atlasti-may-17th-2011/ From Marc: Here’s a […]

Hello, Thank you to the grad students who submitted their successful proposals from previous AERA conference to share with us. If you would like to post your proposal here or co-present with us at the workshop, please contact Julia julia_ostertag@yahoo.ca Reminder: Only 25 spots available for this workshop. Please RSVP (julia_ostertag@yahoo.ca) as soon as possible […]

‘Hope Builders’ is a video about a new teaching method that is being tested in an elementary school in Québec to prepare the next generation of students to take up environmental challenges. Under the supervision of their teacher, students are learning to identify, analyze and resolve a problem that exists in their world. They are […]

We are glad to announce that we have created a ‘EDCP Job’ page so the EDCP graduate students have one fast and easy place to look for current available positions. This page will be kept up to date with the latest job offers. https://blogs.ubc.ca/edcp/edcp-jobs/ -The Grad Team!