Pro-D By Request for Educators

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Inclusive Leadership: Tools and Action Planning
• 21st Century Leadership: Leading in New Times
• Developing a Leader-ful Organization: Strategies for Success
• Through the Looking Glass: Historical and Contemporary Trends in BC Educational Policy and Politics
• Leading for Learning: Teacher Action Research and Professional Inquiry
• “Who me...lead?” Understanding and Practicing Teacher Leadership
• Teacher Leadership: Creating Democratic Schools
• Women in Leadership: Tensions, Contradictions and Opportunities

Dr. Timothy Hopper

• Children's Global Arts

Dr. Wanda Hurren

• Found in the Halls: Arts-based Spatial Exploration Working with Images and Poetry

Dr. Michelle Wiebe

• Assessment as an Integral Part of Learning in Art
• Integrating Design in Art Education
• Training Students in the Use of Self-Assessment in Art
• Inspiring Creativity

Dr. Monica Prendergast

• Drama Across the Curriculum
• Story Drama in the Elementary/Middle School Classroom
• Addressing Bullying through Drama
• Drama and Language Arts
• Drama and Social Studies
• Drama and Science
• Teaching Human Rights through Drama
• Building Classroom Communities through Drama
• Peace Education through Drama
• Values Education through Drama
• Revisioning the Secondary Theatre Arts Curriculum for the 21st Century

Kindra Harte

• Assessment of Creative Works, Rubric Development
• Assessment Practices for the Second Language Classroom (grades 5–8): Peer, Self and Teacher Assessment (including Portfolio)
• Provincial Examinations and Assessment Practices from the Ministry of Education
• Setting Up Grade Books According to Prescribed Learning Outcomes

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Dealing with the Fraser Report
• Interpreting FSA and other Provincial Assessment Results

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Assessment for Learning: Alternative Authentic Approaches to Assessment

Dr. Gina Harrison

• Intervention-based Assessment of Learning Difficulties in the Inclusive Classroom

Dr. Donna McGhie-Richmond

• Differentiated Instruction
• Instructional Programming to Support Student Participation
• Assistive Technology
• Universal Design for Learning
• Collaborative Teaming
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Dr. Viviene Temple

• Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Physical Education

Dr. Leslee Francis-Pelton

• Using CBL and TI84+ in the Classroom

Dr. Valerie Irvine

• Developing a Personal Learning Network using Social Media: What's in it for me? and how do I get started? (e.g., twitter, blogs)
• Networked learning in the classroom: Making global connections
• How to Communicate with Teachers and Students Online: Developing your Classroom Website and Communication Protocol (with emphasis on parent engagement)
• Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century: What does personalized learning look like?
• So you're going to become an iPad classroom? Things to know to get you started
• Digital Citizenship: Leaving Digital Footprints Others Can Follow
• Cyberbullying
• Distributed and Mobile Learning

Dr. Donna McGhie-Richmond

• Assistive Technology Augmentative Communication

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Video Game Learning in Your Classroom

Dr. Tim Pelton

• Creating quick video lessons with your iPad
• 100 ways to use an iPad in your classroom
• Using iPads as a creative tool to support learning
• Using Robotics to Teach Mathematics and Science (grades 5–9)

Rich McCue

• Smartphones and Tablets: Educational Distractions or Bicycles for the Mind?
• Is Educational Technology Worth the Investment?
• Creating and Teaching Effective, Active Learning Makerspace Workshops (this is a hands on workshop)

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Gender Issues in Schooling

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Issues of Gender in the Classroom

Kindra Harte

• Implementation of New Resources and New Curriculum for the Second Language Classroom
• Provincial Practice and Resource Evaluation
• Resource Evaluation for the Second Language Classroom

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Integrating Curriculum for Middle School

Kindra Harte

• Literacy in the Second Language Classroom
• Web-based/ Online Learning for the Second Language Classroom
• Second Language Acquisition and Methodology

Dr. Graham McDonough

• Using Parliamentary Simulations to Promote Moral and Community Development
• Discussing Controversial Issues in Religious Education

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Improving Transitions for Indigenous learners through professional collaborative inquiry: Reflections on three years of research

Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France

• Multiculturalism, Diversity and Language
• Internationalizing the Curriculum

Please contact our French language program coordinator at Languages.Coordinator@uvic.ca for details about the workshops we can offer.  

Dr. Catherine Gaul

• Children, Fitness and Sport Medicine Education: Options for Preparing for Medical School
• Nutrition for Health and Performance
• Physical Activity and the Adolescent Female
• The Human Body: How it Works

Dr. Leslee Francis-Pelton

• First Nations Games of Chance

Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France

• Indigenous/Aboriginal Education and Knowledge
• Indigenous/Aboriginal Curriculum Implementation
• Indigenizing the Curriculum
• Indigenous/Aboriginal Early Childhood Initiatives

Dr. Gina Harrison

• Literacy-based LD: Linking Current Research to Enhanced Practice

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Gender and Pedagogy (Boy's Literacy) Media and Popular Culture in the Classroom
• 21st Century Literacy
• Christine Tippett
• Children's Literature Connections (K–5)

Dr. Tim Pelton

• Using Audible Response Systems to Engage All Learners

Dr. Kathy Sanford

• Developing Learning Communities

Dr. Darlene Clover

• Adult and Lifelong Learning

Dr. Catherine McGregor

• Leading for Learning

Dr. Leslee Francis-Pelton

• Calculator-based Activities for the Classroom
• Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI): A Framework for Understanding Children's Mathematical Thinking
• Computer-based Activities for the Math Classroom
• First Nations Games of Chance
• Games and Activities for Development of Fraction Understanding
• Middle School Math Activities: Fractions, Ratio and Proportion, Integers, Algebra
• Non-routine Problem Solving in Mathematics
• Numeracy Activities and Teaching Strategies
• Numeracy Issues Related to Gambling
• The Open-ended Approach to Mathematics: The Japanese Model for Lessons
• Uncertainty, Chance and Data Analysis Activities

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Creating Comics to Communicate Understanding in Math and Science (grades 5–9)
• Why Math Makes Sense (K–7)
• Learning by Creating – Using ‘Explain Everything’ on an ipad

Dr. Catherine Gaul

• Children, Fitness and Sport
• Medical Education: Options for Preparing for Medical School
• Nutrition for Health and Performance
• Physical Activity and the Adolescent Female
• The Human Body: How It Works
• Women and Exercise

Dr. Sandra Gibbons

• Assessment in Physical Education
• Curriculum Design: Elementary and Secondary
• Gender Equity in Physical Education
• Teambuilding Activities in Physical Education

Dr. Timothy Hopper

• Action Research for Teachers
• Coaching Tennis from Beginner to Advanced Levels
• Teaching Creative Dance
• Teaching Games for Understanding
• Use of Technology in Physical Education

Dr. Viviene Temple

• Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Physical Education
• Introduction to Lacrosse

Dr. Wanda Hurren

• Mapwork: Arts-based Approaches to Paying Attention to Our Surroundings

Dr. Timothy Pelton

• Geotrekking: Using the Global Positioning System to Support Problem-based Learning in Math, Science and Geography (grades 5–12)

Dr. Wanda Hurren

• Found in the Halls: Arts-based Spatial Exploration
• Working with Images and Poetry
• Mapwork: Exploring Notions of Place and Identity