Bachelor of Education

Lori's research focuses on the intersections of literacies, pedagogies, and teacher professional learning.

She is currently the principal investigator of the Prairie Literacies Project and a co-investigator on the Reading Pedagogies of Equity, Network Literacy Pedagogues as Resources for Academic Reading Praxis in Teacher Education.

Both of these projects focus on expanding literacy's teaching and learning.

Jo Stouffer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at Brandon University, where he has been recognized with the Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching.

His research and ongoing work with schools examines strengthening formative assessment and responsive instructional practices in reading and writing for pre-service teachers, and in kindergarten to grade eight classrooms.

Joe's scholarship is grounded in extensive school-based experience as a classroom teacher, reading recovery teacher leader, literacy coach, and a literacy consultant working across Canada.

We don't know who wrote it.

And it mirrors the Ontario curriculums.

Our teacher candidates need to have a grasp of that.

What I've noticed and what our research has indicated is that teachers are coming into our B.Ed classrooms, our pre-service programs and our assessment classrooms asking some big questions like how is assessment and equity, how are those two related? How does one maybe limit the other and questions about how does new technologies impact our assessment practice.

So our candidates are asking the right questions and it's our job to say well here are the sound principles of assessment and here's how these bigger concepts work together so that you can design assessment experiences that are beneficial for your learners.

Again, getting back to basics, find, figure out what we know, what are sound and good essential principles, and then how can they be connected with the new technology that's coming out?

So we do have now...

Before, we never had a special education BEd, or it's called the Bachelor of Education, but now we do have Bachelor of Education in Special Education.

So the teachers who are interested, they can do that.

We have plenty of excellent online courses for different disabilities.

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We have plenty of online courses.

And then most of the BEd regular mainstream colleges who train the teachers, there is an introduction of one module on special education.

So in our school, from different BEd colleges, we have students who visit us.

It was a certificate.

And then you could do a fourth year B.Ed.

So it was like full time at Laban, Rudolf Laban, who's the father of dance education and notation and the language of dance.

But Laban made us work five, six days a week.