Transformative Teaching, Learning & Leading

Goal

Our programs will prepare our graduates to excel as critical, thoughtful and ethical professionals and citizens who work in and contribute to increasingly complex and diverse contexts locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Objectives

• Renewal of the undergraduate bachelor of education program that responds to the needs of the educational sector, that is informed by current research in education, that is coherent and flexible, and that intentionally integrates and makes explicit the Alberta Teacher Quality Standards.
• Review of graduate programs with attention to coherence, inter-disciplinarity, and diverse epistemologies, pedagogies and theoretical frameworks. Following this review, create a strategy to address any recommendations that emerge through the process.
• Explore ways to foster students’ sense of belonging and community.
• Consider international, national and local approaches, and contexts of anti-oppressive and social justice education in our programs.
• Strengthen the presence of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit foundational knowledge in our programs.
• Support mentoring and professional development opportunities for students and faculty to enhance teaching and learning within and across departments.
• Drawing on existing technology expertise in the Faculty, enhance teaching, learning, digital literacy, and digital citizenship.