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<\/a>The new program, which takes place at Camosun College, is a new partnership between the college and the lower mainland university. Tom Roemer, Camosun\u2019s vice president of strategic development, believes that with this kind of training graduates will be highly respected within their disciplines.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will create a cadre of highly qualified master vocational\/practitioner instructors that have the skills to develop new methodology and infuse modern educational philosophies into vocational and practitioner training,\u201d Roemer said in a press release.<\/p>\n
The 11 students graduating from the inaugural year include instructors from the college\u2019s trades, nursing, accounting, personal fitness, and sports management programs. They are set to graduate on June 13 with a Master of Education degree from SFU.<\/p>\n
Al van Akker, chair of Camosun\u2019s Architectural Trades Department and a Carpentry Apprenticeship instructor, is one of the students graduating. He says he learned a lot about the \u201cphilosophical underpinnings and cultures of curriculum that frame and define the educational context\u201d in his position.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a greater understanding of my students\u2019 educational experiences to date, which helps me to relate to them and more effectively mediate the new material that they learn in my program,\u201d said van Akker.<\/p>\n
SFU\u2019s Larry Johnson, assistant director of Community Graduate Programs, says the instructors who were studying in the program impressed him with their level of commitment and care for their students.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was surprising about this program was that all of our students are not only interested in learning how to teach their programs, but also how they can help make their own students better citizens in the world, socially, ethically and with respect to the diversity that these individuals bring to their classrooms daily,\u201d says Johnson.<\/p>\n
The program\u2019s interdisciplinary approach to learning was one of its strongest aspects, according to students. The mix of different instructors striving towards the same educational goal of a Master\u2019s degree brought them together, despite their respective educational backgrounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t realize I was prejudiced against the trades and tech instructors,\u201d says Tana Kristjanson, an instructor at Camosun\u2019s School of Business and a student in the program. \u201cI discovered that they are so wise and insightful, and really care about their students. I now realize that I\u2019m basically a trades instructor as well, because I don\u2019t teach a lot of theory at the introductory accounting level, it is rather a lot more skills.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other Camosun instructors who graduated this year include Plumbing and Pipe Trades chair and instructor John Gordon and Camosun Automotive instructor Patrick Jones.<\/p>\n
The SFU Faculty of Education and Camosun will offer the program again at the college in the summer of 2015. An information session for the program is being held on June 19 from 5\u20136 pm in Paul 216, Lansdowne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you attend Camosun\u2019s upcoming convocation ceremony on June 20 and notice 11 college instructors decked out in Simon Fraser University (SFU) regalia, fear not; you didn\u2019t eat the wrong kind of mushrooms during lunch. In fact, the grads up on stage who look like instructors wearing the wrong school\u2019s gowns are actually real grads, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-june-11-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}