Courses Taught

The Werklund School of Education Courses Taught
EDUC 521 Design for Learning (Online). Fall 2025 (Upcoming).
Students will embrace their role as designers of learning, rather than merely implementers of curriculum. They will explore design as an everyday, reflective, and political act that shapes how educators support diverse learners within the constraints and possibilities of schools and formal curricula. Students will reframe their understanding of curriculum through Indigenous perspectives, Third Space theory, the Arts, and transdisciplinary approaches, recognizing how alternative ways of knowing can inform more inclusive and imaginative teaching. Ultimately, students will develop the capacity to co-design responsive, interdisciplinary learning that centers student experience, challenges dominant paradigms, and advocates for historically marginalized voices.
EDUC 427.04 STEM K-12. (Summer 2022, 2023, 2024).
Students will gain an introduction to key elements of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) pedagogy and curriculum. Students will foster an understanding of how STEM informs and shapes interdisciplinary, design-focused, inquiry-based teaching and learning and the role of STEM in culture and society.
EDUC 465 Field Experience II (Online). (Winter 2023, 2024). This field experience is a cohort-based course designed to help student teachers explore the complexities of individual and group learning in K–12 classrooms. Emphasizing the collaborative nature of teaching, students will apply theory to practice through lesson planning, instruction, and assessment. Working alongside a partner teacher, student teachers will begin by leading small group activities and progress toward whole-class instruction. By the third week, they will assume responsibility for approximately one-third of their partner teacher’s instructional time. Throughout the experience, student teachers receive formative feedback from partner teachers, field instructors, and community partners. This program spans several areas across Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and reaches to the border with Saskatchewan.
EDUC 520 Interdisciplinary Learning (Online). (Fall 2021). Students will consider what it means for teachers and students to learn to look across disciplines, and to understand knowledge differently as a result of doing so. Interdisciplinary learning generally refers to the combining of two or more disciplines into one activity or study. It involves creating something or solving something that is too complex or challenging to be answered by one discipline alone. The overall intent of this seminar is to build students’ orientation and capacities with respect to interdisciplinary knowing and curricular practice, collaborative teaching, and pedagogic excellence in teaching and learning. Particular attention will be paid to how teachers (and/or teams of teachers) have the potential to integrate ideas and to connect learning and knowledge between or among subject areas. It also provides an additional opportunity for future teachers to attend to complex forms of learning and understanding, and to explore how teachers understand their agency and leadership roles. 
K-12 Alberta Courses Taught
English 10-1,2/4.
Social 10-2/4, Social 30-2/4.
CALM (Career and Life Management).
Art 5-8. Art, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture.
Grade 6 Generalist.
Interdisciplinary Humanities 7-12 (Health, Social Studies, Language Arts, etc.).
Career and Technology 5-8. Art Metal Fabrication, Design Studies, Computer Design, Animation.
Career and Technology Studies 10-12. Communications & Technology Studies, Film Studies 10/20/30.
High School Fine Arts. Drama.