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Vancouver (pronounced /væn.ˈkuːvər/) is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch “van Coevorden”, denoting somebody from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands.[2]
The largest metropolitan area in Western Canada, Vancouver ranks third largest in the country and the city proper ranks eighth.[3][4] According to the 2006 census Vancouver had a population of 578,041[1] and its Census Metropolitan Area exceeded 2.1 million people.[1] Its residents are ethnically and linguistically diverse; 52% do not speak English as their first language.[5][6]
Environmental Studies
Environmental studies is the academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad interdisciplinary field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. While distinct from ecology and environmental science, the discipline encompasses study in the basic principles of those two fields of learning as well as the associated subjects, such as: policy, politics, law, economics, sociology and other social aspects, planning, pollution control, natural resources, and the interactions of human beings and nature.
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Early Career Mentorship in Rural Schools
My research interest in early career mentorship for teachers comes from my recent teaching experience. Upon graduating from the West Kootenay Teacher Education program in 2008, I accepted the position as Head of Geography at a small private school in Edmonton, AB, and taught grades 7 through 11 world regional geography and earth science. During that precarious time, as a new teacher, I was always learning and trying to find what worked for me, my students and the class as a whole. I had wonderful professional and emotional support from my administration, colleagues, family and friends but felt that the experience lacked formal guidance specifically suited to my needs within my subject area. My motivation for pursuing an MA in Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC came from realizing the need for formally structured mentorship programs for early year career teachers with subject specific needs. Creating the conditions to set up the needs for effective mentorship programs will be the focus of my research and my goals within this project are to create an alternative to the ‘token’ or ad hoc mentorship programs currently in place and provide foundational scaffolding that guides early year teachers confidently towards competent independence. The value of such a program will be that the mentor and mentored will become better educators, through the nature of the reciprocal relationship and early year teachers will have more formal support within a practical setting, thereby improving one part of the education system wherein students are the ultimate beneficiaries.