Michel Laurier Dean of the Faculty of Education As dean, what is your role in the course evaluation process? As dean, I receive the questionnaire results for each professor. I study the results. I encourage the professors whose teaching quality
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En 1990, la Cour suprême donne finalement raison à des parents d’Edmonton qui entamèrent, dès 1982, des procédures afin que leurs enfants puissent avoir accès à un établissement d’enseignement en français géré par des francophones. Ces parents souhaitaient que la
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Hip-Hop flips the script thus making schools illiterate. It semantically inverts meaning, whereby standard negative words are inverted to produce positive ones. To reference something as ‘ill’ and ‘sick’ now becomes ‘sensational’ and ‘skillful.’ Expressions such as “Damn, that cat
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Sitting and nervously waiting to meet with your high school vice-principal can be a very stressful experience for any young student. Many of us may recall our vice-principal as a disciplinarian, someone who would drill you with questions on your
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Dovat Batotele Mutimbutimbu, a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Education since the beginning of the academic year, has been named the recipient of the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award. This volunteerism award recognizes individuals who volunteer to work behind
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Not that long ago, the main social activity in a teen’s life comprised of face-to-face communication (yes I can appreciate how old I sound in writing this). For today’s teen, the primary mode of communication is texting—in fact, close to
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Stress in the workplace has become the new buzz word whether it is in the public service, private sector or in the classroom. I have been looking at negative forms of psychological stress in education ever since I began my
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Web 2.0 has changed the way in which society connects. From bedrooms to boardrooms, people across the world are logging in to chat, tweet, blog, watch and upload information, all for the purpose of communicating with others. Early adopters have proven
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After a few years of teaching music in a home studio, recent uOttawa graduates Nadia Zaid and Ashley Martyn realized their dream and opened Barrhaven Music Academy (BMA) in July. “My advice to anyone who’s wishing to start a business
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In 1969, the École normale de l’Université d’Ottawa, which had trained thousands of French-Ontario teachers since 1927, joined our Faculty of Education. Next up to join the Faculty, on August 19, 1974, was the Ottawa Teachers’ College, which had prepared
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