James (Jimmy) Steele is in his third year as a secondee at York University. What school board are you affiliated with and what was your role at your board?I was a Department Head in a fantastic downtown Toronto school with the Toronto District School Board. I taught a combination of French Immersion, German, Spanish, and […]
2017 was a great year here in the Faculty of Education. Here are a few of our #BESTof2017 moments. Faculty ensures access to teacher education for college tech grads The Faculty has signed agreements with seven Ontario colleges to enable college graduates trained in technology-related fields to earn teaching degrees at York. Read more Report […]
Course director Ixchel Bennett recently welcomed guest speaker Christina Saunders to her “Issues in Indigenous Education” class to speak to teacher candidates (TCs) about her work as an Aboriginal woman and educator with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). Christina held a sharing circle of "speaking your truth" with TCs on the topics of appropriation […]
French as a Second Language course director James Steele was invited to participate in the 2017 American Council of Teaching Foreign Language (ACTFL) Convention & World Expo held this past November in Nashville, Tennessee. More than 7000 second language K-12 and post-secondary educators from across Canada, the United States and around the world, attended the […]
Professors Jen Gilbert and Gillian Parekh have been awarded Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grants totaling approximately $250,000. The grants were announced in the Insight Development Grants and Insight Grants Competition categories. “We are extremely delighted and would like to congratulate Jen and Gillian on these awards which are a testament […]
The 2017 Internationalizing Higher Education Symposium: Strategies, Challenges, Trends and Pathways will critically analyze how universities provide students — both international and domestic — with the knowledge and skills to compete in a globalized economy. On Nov. 29, this symposium will assess the capacity of educational institutions to internationalize curricula, as well as create a […]
A new book co-edited by Professor Emeritus Esther Fine examines the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto and other large urban areas. Alternative Schooling and Student Engagement, Canadian Stories of Democracy within Bureaucracy provides a history of the alternative school movement in Canada and examines the ways in which the movement meets the […]
As part of the Ontario Ministry of Education’s Technology and Learning Fund, Dr. Ron Owston, a professor in the Faculty of Education, was commissioned by the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) to lead a strategic research study titled: Transforming Learning Everywhere: A study of the second year of implementation. Collaborating with him were Education professor […]
A new lecture series that examines the past, present and future of Canadian education will feature the expertise of Education Professor Emeritus Paul Axelrod, Professor Steve Alsop, Course Director Kathleen Gould Lundy and several York alumni. The four-part “Values and Visions in Public Schooling” series, sponsored by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundations, will present provocative talks on […]
What school board are you affiliated with and what was your role at your board? I'm affiliated with the Peel District School Board (PDSB) where I was a Science and Technological Education Instructional Coordinator. Why did becoming a secondee with the Faculty of Education interest you? I’ve always wanted to work with new teachers, and […]