Browsing Portfolios (Master of Education) by Title
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A+Vengers : empowering students through superheroic re-storying
(2020)This portfolio is based on my understanding of the importance of promoting mental health and wellness in schools for students. This project focused on the integration of specific mental health promoting therapies (narrative ... -
Arts4SocialJustice
(2020)In the following pages I will tell a story. This story is mine, but it is also others’. With this narrative I will recount the journey and people that took me to where I stand now. I will discuss how I found myself in ... -
Awakening Ontario educators to treaty stories: exploring the possibilities of disruptive treaty scripting as professional development
(2024)I need to tell you a story. My name is Denise Petitpas and I am a French-Canadian, Ontario school teacher. Specifically, I am Franco-Ontarian, and my surname Petitpas, comes from one of the first forty families to settle ... -
Changing channels: altering the dis-course of “invasive” species education
(2022)This portfolio is focused on two discourses around "invasive" species, namely the dominant Western science narratives that emphasize elimination, control, and management and an Indigenous perspective that takes a longer ... -
Chronic student absenteeism
(2019)Chronic student absenteeism, defined as a student missing 10% or more of the school year, is a significant issue for educators. This portfolio is a practical resource guide for school administrators seeking to reduce ... -
Climate change education : a portfolio
(2018)The focus of this portfolio is climate change education, with a particular emphasis on the challenges facing educators in Alberta where economic matters are often prioritized over environmental ones and the lessons we can ... -
Climate change education inquiries in the secondary classroom: a practical guide
(2020)The purpose of this literature review is to report on current climate change education research focused on best practice for climate change pedagogy at the secondary level. Through the literature, I demonstrate the ... -
Collaborative professionalism by way of collective efficacy
(2019)This project portfolio explores how, by improving teacher efficacy and enhancing collaborative professionalism, there are accompanying gains in student learning. The project is based around Ontario’s Policy and Program ... -
Critical assessment for transformative education: for people and the planet
(2022)The purpose of this portfolio is to review the relevant academic literature from environmental and social justice education, as well as assessment and evaluation, to make the case for critical assessment and evaluation ... -
A deadly dimorph: what you need to know about Blastomyces spp.
(2019)Maxx had just returned from spending a holiday weekend at a camp near Geraldton, Ontario when his owners noticed he just “wasn’t himself.” He began coughing and then “started licking his paws a lot.” When his paws began ... -
Decolonizing (for settlers): a pedagogical framework for enacting responsibilities
(2021)The first section of this portfolio offers a grounding of core concepts central to the framework, specifically an explanation of settler colonialism, why use the terms Indigenous and settler, and what decolonization ... -
Decolonizing environmental science education: (Re)storying relations for settler educator unsettling
(2024)The purpose of this portfolio is to emphasize, demonstrate, and role-model the inherent responsibility that all settler educators have in decolonizing their own ways of knowing, being, doing and belonging before they can ... -
Developing an ecological consciousness as an international student at Lakehead University: a practical guide
(2019)The portfolio will focus on the increasing ecological consciousness of teachers and student populations in India and Canada. It will largely focus on my personal journey from India to Canada in terms of my ecological ... -
Different approaches to teaching English language learners in Ontario private elementary schools
(2018)There has been growing interest in the methods and programs that have been implemented in Ontario for English language learners in recent years. However, there is a dearth of research that focuses specifically on English ... -
Environmental emotions, environmental social justice, and hope
(2023)Educators are faced with teaching their students about subjects such as climate change, the mass extinction of species, and environmental degradation while trying to encourage a love of nature and pro-environmental ... -
A guide to teaching in Nunavut
(2021)What you can expect from this portfolio is a personal introduction, a brief summary on the near absolute lack of Nunavut teaching guides, followed by a Nunavut teaching guide. More accurately, I’ll be providing a cultural ... -
Implementing team based learning in postgraduate medical education
(2019)My portfolio is focused on team-based learning (TBL) in the area of health sciences education. My interest in this topic stems from my work in the Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) setting where I work as an instructional ... -
Integration and experiences of immigrants within Canada
(2024)This portfolio was created with the goal of better understanding and closely examining the various difficulties and barriers that newly landed immigrants face upon entering Canadian society. Immigrants make up a large ... -
Integration of international students at Lakehead University - "The Path of Sahanubhooti"
(2018)The portfolio will focus on the increasing internationalization of programs and student populations in Canadian Universities. It will largely focus on the roles, support systems and responsiveness by Lakehead University ...
