UBC teacher education vs. SFU PDP

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#1156 I AM BOG

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 08:53 AM

We were told that school boards are only interested in your final practicum reports. They don't want to see the interim ones, its just supposed to be for feedback. I can't remember if I got one for the first semester or not, but i never showed it to anyone else anyway.

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 04:25 PM

I AM BOG, on 04 November 2009 - 08:53 AM, said:

I think your right that most school boards are most interested in your final one but I noticed that calgary says to send all practicum reports on their website.

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 04:32 PM

Here the latest article on the Alberta potential cuts to education. It doesn't seem like theyare planning on increasing class sizes at the k-3 level. Maybe I should have done primary.

http://www.calgaryhe...2374/story.html

#1159 calguy

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 07:29 PM

Guest, on 04 November 2009 - 04:32 PM, said:

We won't know anything until the new year, but the same will be true for B.C. - budget cuts. It will be bad in BC because of declining enrollment and too many teachers plus not as many teachers retiring. I will tell you people here are mad as heck at the government for the handling of this H1N1 shot fiasco. Only in Alberta can a health minister not get fired for all this stuff. Hopefully oil and gas picks up and maybe the cuts won't be as bad. But we do have a younger population - increased enrollment and new schools being built!

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Posted 04 November 2009 - 08:14 PM

calguy, on 04 November 2009 - 07:29 PM, said:

I agree what we need is a rebound in oil and gas. Oil is on its way up but the gains are being erroded by the high Canadian dollar. Hopefully the dollar will go down.

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Posted 08 November 2009 - 07:28 PM

Jam, on 04 November 2009 - 09:14 PM, said:

I agree what we need is a rebound in oil and gas. Oil is on its way up but the gains are being erroded by the high Canadian dollar. Hopefully the dollar will go down.

Well steady eddie won support in the leadership review so...i really don't know what to say.. We will have to wait and see what the budget is. It's interesting that Stelmach and Campbell are so similar just using different political names. Alberta= conservative, BC = Liberal but both seem to be 'right' wing now.

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Posted 09 November 2009 - 10:23 AM

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 07:11 PM

Here are the latest admission stats from SFU
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Good luck! It seems they are still taking in the same number of students the last few years. It is very competitive, especially english and social studies.

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#1164 I AM BOG

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 08:30 PM

It's true that it's harder to get into SFU than UBC, but you have to remember that a very large percentage of people trying to get into an education program apply to both SFU and UBC. Most of those that didn't get into SFU end up at UBC. I have to assume it is that way around as UBC has not filled all its places this year.

I applied to both and wanted to go to SFU, but when I got accepted into UBC I was still 15th on the waiting list for SFU (I had dropped from 58th to 15th over a six week period).

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Posted 12 November 2009 - 09:40 PM

For some reason I had no problem getting into the SFU Elementary PDP. I ended up with a score of 16 out of 20 when I only needed 13. But in the end I decided on UBC just because I liked the program structure. If you think about it the elementary option of the PDP is not that competitive. About half are admitted, but the secondary options are insanely hard to get into. I read on the Chilliwack School district website that they receive hundreds of applications. I was surprised because I did not think that many people wanted to go all the way out to Chilliwack. It seems Calgary will be coming to UBC this year.

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Posted 16 November 2009 - 01:54 PM

Hey Jam or Bog, not sure which one it was, but can you post the email that you had from the BCTF president who said retired teachers are a non-issue, and that TOC's need a scapegoat? You don't have to post the full email, just that section of the reply. That would be great!

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Posted 16 November 2009 - 08:05 PM

It wasn't an email, Irene Lazinger came to do a UBC lecture and and in response to a question about working as a TOC she said that retired TOCs are not the big issue everyone believes them to be. I think the word 'scapegoat' in that post was mine, not hers, although it was four months ago, so I'm not sure now.

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Posted 16 November 2009 - 08:31 PM

I AM BOG, on 16 November 2009 - 08:05 PM, said:

Retired subs are only part of the problem.. i think some districts do have more retired TOC's like Burnaby. Other issues are just the numbers - there are over 1000 TOC's in vancouver and 300 are needed any given day.

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Posted 18 November 2009 - 07:16 AM

Retiring teachers and going on the sub list are the bane for beginning teachers. Given the seniority of these retiring teachers and the union, one cannot expect any other comments coming from the Union boss.

Given 156 elementary teachers in Vancouver retired in 2009 one must ask how many are on the TOC list? That number will tell the truth.

TOC's have always been the scapegoat for the union. Look at what is removed from the table first in contract bargaining? TOC issues. Only in the last contract did the BCTF actually honour their commitment to TOC's by not using their issues as concessions.