Becoming a Teacher, Fifth Canadian Edition

Becoming a Teacher, 5CE offers a comprehensive guide to the Canadian educational landscape with its balanced approach from theory to research to practice, and successful 12-chapter organization. It offers new teachers the foundations and history of the Canadian educational system as well as practical advice and tools to build a solid and sustainable career in teaching.

KEY TOPICS:

Teaching;Learning to Teach;Ideas and Events That Have Shaped Education in Canada;Canadian School Governance;Social and Cultural Realities Confronting Today’s Schools;Addressing Learners’ Individual Needs;Creating a Community of Learners;Developing and Implementing the Curriculum;The Role of Technology in Education;Teachers as Educational Leaders;Your First Teaching Position;Educational Issues for the Twenty-First Century

MARKET:

Appropriate for B.Ed foundation courses - general education.

Janette Hughes 

Dr. Hughes is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). After completing her doctoral work at Western, she joined UOIT in 2006. Since then, Dr. Hughes has been conducting research using multimodal, interactive media to open up new possibilities for exploration, writing, performance, and understanding. She published her findings with many highly respected national and international peer-reviewed journals, and presented her research at scholarly conferences globally. In 2011, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation awarded Dr. Hughes an Early Researches award. In 2012, she was awarded a SSHRC Insight grant for a research project – Adolescents, Identities, and Digital Literacies, which explores ways in which youth construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct their virtual and offline identities. A published author, Dr. Hughes co-authored The Digital Principal for Pembroke Publishers in 2014. This resource shows education leaders how to apply their leadership skills to the challenge of creating and supporting a learning environment rich in technology for both students and teachers to work, teach, and learn in the digital age.

George Gadanidis 

Dr. George Gadanidis is a professors and researcher at Western University. Prof. Gadanidis holds many scholarly and research awards, including a Lifetime Fellowship to the Fields Institute for Research and Mathematical Sciences. He is also the co-author of math and science stories for young children with his daughter, Molly, and these are used in many classrooms across Canada and beyond. 

Diana Petrarca 

Dr. Diana Petrarca is a professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Her research is focused on using learning-objects to support the supervision of pre-service teachers. Dr. Petrarca is a founding member of the Faculty of Education. She joined UOIT in 2003 after 12 years with the Durham District School Board and having lead online special education teaching courses for teachers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Petrarca holds a M.Ed. from OISE with a focus on Human Development and Applied Psychology, specializing in Inclusive Education. She holds a PhD from the University of Calgary.