Saturday, November 4, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Math & Science labs, 2nd floor, Scarfe Education Building, UBC (2125 Main Mall) Presented by the UBC Faculty of Education and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Science and Math… Read more7th Family Math and Science Day at UBC
Last week I had a very special opportunity that I almost missed… UBC Faculty of Applied Science invited Sheila Tobias to present a special lecture . I have learned about Sheila Tobias many years ago. When I was working on my… Read moreMeeting Sheila Tobias
I have been teaching graduate courses in the Faculty of Education at UBC for the last 8 years. During this time, I have worked with many practising teachers, who have decided to pursue their advance academic degree. One of the… Read moreNew Online M.Ed. Program at the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy
I had a very exciting opportunity to visit Eotvas Lorand University in Budapest Hungary. I was asked to present on physics teacher education that I do here in Canada and on science outreach. Both topics are very important to me… Read moreReflections on Budapest: Science Teacher Education in Hungary
I have had a very exciting and somewhat busy first week of classes. Since I teach two general science methods courses, as well as a physics methods course, I have an opportunity to do even more exciting things. It also… Read moreExploring UBC campus: Erasing the boundaries
Learning how to share your ideas with your students in creative ways is a great skills for any educators. It is even more important for mathematics and science teachers. In British Columbia, with the introduction of the new science curriculum,… Read moreScientific Communication: Creating STEM Videos
Growing up in the family that valued education and having a mother who was a mathematics and science teacher, September 1st has always been a special day for me. In the Soviet Union where I grew up, it marked the… Read moreSeptember 1st, 2017
As I am preparing to my 8th academic year as a Teacher at the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, I keep thinking of my role as a science educator who has a lucky opportunity to help… Read moreHappy New Academic Year
During the last year a group of my students and I have been working on creating short videos of STEM experiments that our teacher-candidates can do with their students. This project became possible thanks to the generous support of the… Read moreSTEM Videos for Teachers, Students and Families
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. (Carl Sagan) For the last year and a half, my colleague from Simon Fraser University, Dr. Sarah Johnson, and I have… Read morePhysics in Canada Science Outreach Issue
