OUR EXPERTISE
Drawing on its extensive network of a world renowned faculty, alumni and international partners, its programs, courses and workshops are targeted for teachers, post-secondary educators, trainers and educational leaders who want to make a difference in their field.
Professional Development
- Diverse learners and learning needs
- Teaching and learning processes, methods, and pedagogies
- Use of advanced technologies in teaching and learning
- Program architecture, course, and curriculum design
- Assessment of learning
- Physical education
- Teacher education content
- Faculty development
- Needs assessment and program evaluation
- School and academic leadership and change management
Teaching
- Teacher education teaching methods
- Teaching English as a second or foreign language
- Science, math, and art education
- Pedagogical skills for university teachers
- Graduate supervision and professional identity development
Learning
- Psychological processes for academic success (social, cognitive and emotional development, motivation, self-regulation, and resilience)
- Diverse and inclusive education (autism and autism spectrum disorders adaptive functioning of at risk students; diverse learning including first nations and indigenous students)
- Advanced technologies, blended, and on-line learning and assessment
Social Context
- Activism and social justice
- Gender and youth culture
- Social media
Health and Wellness
- Physiological, neuromechanical, and behavioural mechanisms of health, obesity, disability, and disease across the lifespan
- Mental health and counselling psychology
- Maladaptive behaviours (cyber-bullying, youth gambling, lying, self-harm, and suicide)
