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In-person classes delayed to February 21: COVID-19 update
January 11, 2021
Updates from President Alan Shepard
Creating superheroes
December 14, 2020
It can be lonely being in graduate school. However, one Master of Arts student is using artwork to breakthrough this barrier and connect with ...
Visiting scholar
December 09, 2020
One of Cameroon’s leading advocates for the rights of marginalized communities and children with special needs is a visiting scholar at the ...
New Faculty of Education program supports Indigenous, disabled grad students
November 27, 2020
Western is clearing a pathway for people who have historically faced social and economic barriers, with a new scholarship program for graduate ...
Protecting family-violence survivors
November 26, 2020
CREVAWC has received just under $1.2 million from the federal government to reach 15,000 health, violence prevention and family law professionals.
Winter break message
November 26, 2020
What a year this has been. The pandemic has challenged us in ways nobody could have predicted. Thank you for rising to the challenge with your ...
Holiday greetings from Acting Dean
November 26, 2020
Acting Dean Kathy Hibbert shares holiday greetings and highlights some of the activities at the Faculty of Education this year.
Let’s talk education series
November 26, 2020
Educators and parents can influence children’s writing through teaching writing strategy and spelling while concentrating on printing or ...
New interactive dashboard tracks COVID-19 cases in Ontario schools
November 24, 2020
Western University professor Prachi Srivastava has launched an interactive tool that reports and maps confirmed school-related cases of COVID-19 ...
Addressing community need
November 12, 2020
Colin King, education professor and academic director of Western’s Child and Youth Development Clinic is grateful for donor support amidst ...
Resources for Remembrance Day
November 11, 2020
Western’s virtual Remembrance Day ceremony, hosted by the University Students’ Council, will be broadcast live from the Mustang Lounge ...
Western News - Donna Kotsopoulos to become new dean of Western’s Faculty of Education
November 11, 2020
Donna Kotsopoulos will begin her role as dean of the Faculty of Education in January 2021.
Western global education expert leads COVID-19 event ahead of G20 Summit
November 04, 2020
Western’s Prachi Srivastava will lead an international summit to identify how countries' education systems can recover from the effects ...
Writing education
November 03, 2020
The Let’s Talk Education Speaker Series will look at how research on writing education has shifted over the last five years to ensure ...
EGSA Fall convocation message
October 29, 2020
Congratulations on the well-deserved success and graduating this fall. We come, we learn, we laugh, and finally, we part ways for hopeful tomorrows.
Congratulations Fall Class of 2020 from Dean Kathy Hibbert
October 29, 2020
To the graduating class of October 2020, congratulations. This message is to you, our students, on a day when we should be able to be together.
Faculty of Education Congratulates 2020 Fall Graduates
October 29, 2020
Faculty members, including Dean Kathy Hibbert, as well as staff congratulate the Fall graduating class of 2020.
Celebrating Fall 2020 graduates
October 29, 2020
Congratulations to the Faculty of Education graduates who have successfully completed their program.
The forgotten ones
October 22, 2020
Western researchers Eric Arts, Kate Choi, and Prachi Srivastava are highlighting the inequalities that have caused vulnerable populations to be ...
National survey focuses on workplace sexual harassment and violence
October 21, 2020
A new national survey will examine workers’ experiences of sexual harassment and violence in the
workplace.
National survey focuses on workplace sexual harassment and violence
October 21, 2020
A new national survey will examine workers’ experiences of sexual harassment and violence in the workplace. The Centre for Research...
COVID online education panel
October 13, 2020
As part of the university’s virtual homecoming celebration, the Faculty will showcase some of their pandemic work during an online panel ...
Peer Mentorship Program
September 29, 2020
The Peer Mentorship Program ensures teacher candidates are supported throughout the academic year.
Early childhood education expert available to comment on proposed national childcare plan
September 25, 2020
Veronica Pacino-Ketchabaw has been studying the effectiveness and likeliness of a national childcare program for nearly 20 years.
Embodied Learnings
September 24, 2020
Embodied Learnings advocates for the inclusion of the body through dance education and movement integration into the elementary classroom.
There’s power in uncertainty
September 15, 2020
There’s power in uncertainty and each person has the power to make change, use their voice to express themselves and connect and inspire ...
TikTok about education
September 15, 2020
Catherine Zeisner is a social media influencer. She has over 200,000 followers, 3.3 million likes and millions of comments and direct messages on ...
Project provides tutoring to vulnerable students
September 09, 2020
Six months out of school due to COVID-19 is threatening marginalized and vulnerable students to fall behind their peers. So Western has joined ...
Royal Society celebrates five Western scholars
September 08, 2020
Four Western researchers were named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), commonly recognized as the country’s top honour in the ...
Tutoring vulnerable, marginalized students
September 04, 2020
Six months out of school due to COVID-19 is threatening marginalized and vulnerable students to fall behind their peers once classes resume.
Message from the Dean
September 01, 2020
Fifty years ago, futurist Alvin Toffler (1970) suggested that one of the most important skills in the 21st C would be our capacity to be ...
Preparing for online teaching
September 01, 2020
Teacher candidates are preparing to teach in a virtual world because many of them will be splitting their time between a physical and virtual ...
Shark passion goes virtual
August 31, 2020
Gabriella (Gabby) Seewald’s family turned to the Faculty of Education’s virtual tutoring service to help with her shark project.
Ask the Expert: How to help with return to learning
August 25, 2020
On August 17, Dr. Colin King answers your questions about preparing children for the return to learning this fall.
Mindfulness study promotes calmer, more caring classrooms
August 20, 2020
A unique mindfulness program developed at Western has led to greater empathy and self-regulation among kindergarten children.
Nicole Kaniki and Bertha Garcia named special advisors on anti-racism
August 06, 2020
Dr. Nicole Kaniki and Dr. Bertha Garcia will help Western lay the foundation for a sustained strategy to combat racism on campus.
Grants awarded for COVID-19 research in child, brain health
July 28, 2020
Two Western researchers are among six interdisciplinary project teams awarded Manulife CIFAR Population Health and Wellbeing grantsto study the ...
Canada Research Chairs
July 27, 2020
History has been made at the Faculty of Education. For the first time, the faculty has a Canada Research Chair (CRC). In fact, the faculty has ...
Four new Canada Research Chairs for Western, two renewed
July 23, 2020
Western will be home to four new Canada Research Chairs, professors whose work will have global impact on autism, data science and ...
Western-branded, made-in-Ontario facemasks supplied to campus community
July 20, 2020
Students, faculty and staff can wear their purple pride as they don Western-branded masks to protect the health of campus colleagues.
Working together
July 16, 2020
Those returning to campus will experience a new environment - additional signage, new rules and regulations, changes to our physical spaces - ...
We Speak survey results to spark conversations, action
July 09, 2020
Insights gained from the WE SPEAK 2020 survey will guide the university as it strives to build a workplace culture where faculty and staff ...
Associate teacher awards
July 06, 2020
The Faculty of Education recognized four associate teachers for contributing to teacher education.
AFE supervisor awards
July 06, 2020
The Faculty of Education has announced the recipients of the Alternative Field Experience Supervisor’s Award for Excellence.
New partnership unites riders, community against bike thieves
June 30, 2020
Campus cyclists can now enlist the help of thousands of extra eyes across the city in an effort to keep their bikes safe from thieves, thanks to a ...
Recommendations on schools reopening
June 26, 2020
Professor Prachi Srivastava, along with two colleagues, have provided recommendations to the Ontario government regarding the reopening of schools.
Virtual tutoring wraps up
June 23, 2020
Teacher candidates, retired teachers and volunteers have supported 400 students through Western Education’s virtual tutoring service.
Western creates new leadership role, advisory council to chart a path forward for anti-racism
June 22, 2020
Western will create a new leadership role and an advisory council that will guide university-wide efforts to develop a sustained strategy for ...
Study investigates virtual learning impact on families
June 18, 2020
The Western-led LEAP (Learning, Education, and the Pandemic) study aims to assess family experiences with learning during COVID-19. Specifically, ...
Graduation 2020 marks a year to remember
June 18, 2020
It has been a year like no other for Western graduates, so it makes sense that the university is marking their achievements with a celebration ...
Congratulations Class of 2020 from Dean Kathy Hibbert
June 11, 2020
Congratulations on achieving this important milestone in your lives, this year of all years.
2019-20 academic awards
June 11, 2020
The Faculty of Education has announced the award recipients for the 2019-20 academic year.
Education community congratulates Class of 2020
June 11, 2020
Faculty, staff, alumni and donors congratulate the 2019-20 academic-year award winners and the graduating Class of 2020.
Easy to become an enemy when speaking truth
June 10, 2020
Ibsen’s play, 'An Enemy of the People?,' is a telling example of how revisiting classic literature can offer timely, prescient and ...
Faculty of Education Online Meet & Greet
June 09, 2020
Western University's Faculty of Education is excited to be hosting an online Meet and Greet on Tuesday June 16th from 4:30pm - 6:00 pm.
Education grad feels right where he belongs
June 08, 2020
On June 19, Western Education student Ethan Thomas will join more than 300,000 Western alumni living around the world as a newly minted graduate ...
Nature site shows kids their wildlife neighbours
June 04, 2020
John Drew, BEd’07, BA’02, and Brock University professor Kendra Coulter, Huron BA’02 (Scholar’s Elective), recently ...
Expanding young minds at heart of supported projects
May 29, 2020
Two Western Space initiatives designed to encourage young minds to cast their eyes to the stars will expand thanks to backing from PromoScience ...
AFE at Blyth Academy
May 25, 2020
Teacher candidate Colin Pierce was gearing up for the Alternative Field Experience (AFE) – his last assignment before graduating – as ...
Ska-Nah-Doht Village and Museum placement
May 25, 2020
Understanding and recognizing Treaties are important for Truth and Reconciliation to occur with Indigenous Peoples. That’s the lesson one ...
Global study examines pregnancy and stress during COVID-19 pandemic
May 19, 2020
Pregnancies, at the best of times, are stressful. When the world is experiencing a global pandemic, human response to risk — real or ...
Western experts weigh in on mental health and pandemic
May 12, 2020
On Wednesday, May 6, Western professors Dr. Chandlee Dickey and Barb MacQuarrie took part in a webcast to answer questions from the community ...
Discovery Grants back 75 research projects
May 07, 2020
Seventy-five university research projects across seven faculties received more than $13.8 million in Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences ...
Fostering resiliency in children
May 05, 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents can introduce small, daily practices to foster resilience in their children.
Writing Commons
May 01, 2020
Graduate students aren’t alone in their academic journey. No matter where they are in their studies, or where they live, they have a unique ...
David Wilson award recipient
April 23, 2020
Mentorship. Service. Leadership. The Comparative and Interational Education Society of Canada (CIESC) has recognized these attributes in Education ...
Western experts field COVID-19 ethics, education questions
April 23, 2020
On April 15, Western professors Prachi Srivastava and Maxwell Smith took part in a special webcast to answer questions from the community ...
Resiliency can be learned
April 21, 2020
Social media and modern parenting are two reasons for the resiliency crisis that children and youth are facing. However, parents and teachers are ...
Study: Bilingualism does not make you ‘smarter’
April 21, 2020
Despite numerous social, employment, and lifestyle benefits, speaking more than one language does not improve your general mental ability, ...
Despite social and employment benefits, bilingualism does not make you ‘smarter’
April 21, 2020
New study fom Western University’s renowned Brain and Mind Institute shows being bilingual does not improve general mental ability.
Math anxiety is real
April 15, 2020
Shallow breathing. Sweaty palms. These are some of the symptoms of mathematics anxiety. These feelings are not part of a student’s ...
Special-ed students, families being tested
April 07, 2020
Kids with special-education needs are not alone in suffering the impacts of a prolonged absence from the classroom – the whole family needs ...
Student symposium moves online
April 06, 2020
History was made at the Faculty of Education. For the first time, the Robert Macmillan Symposium in Education (RMSE) went completely virtual.
Learning resources for students
April 01, 2020
The Faculty of Education is providing free, online resources for elementary and secondary school students to support their learning during the ...
Virtual tutoring
April 01, 2020
Elementary and secondary school students who need help with their studies during the COVID-19 pandemic can get it from the Faculty of Education.
Online – Let's Talk Education
March 31, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed the London Public Library, but it won’t stop the Let’s Talk Education Community Speaker Series. ...
Advanced Manufacturing pivots to face shields
March 29, 2020
Western teams across campus are supporting production of low-cost, substantively effective medical face shields that could be in hospitals for ...
Message from the Dean
March 27, 2020
We are collectively engaged in a call to action unlike anything in our history: a call to achieve social distancing, to allow our health care ...
Math resources during COVID-19
March 24, 2020
An extended March break due to COVID-19 doesn’t mean education has to stop. Parents and their children concerned how the extra time off will ...
Reducing kids’ pandemic panic a ‘balancing act’
March 24, 2020
Under normal circumstances, uncertainty provokes worries among children – and these aren’t ordinary circumstances.
3MT competition
March 17, 2020
Stepping out on stage to speak in front of family and friends can be nerve wracking. Add to this nervousness by trying to explain your graduate ...
Climate change exhibit
March 13, 2020
Disruption. Disorientation. Dialogue. An exhibit at the London Regional Children’s Museum is focusing teacher candidates and early childhood ...
Surviving domestic violence
March 06, 2020
Samra Zafar had big dreams. She was planning to go to university. But, her dreams were taken away from her when she was forced into an arranged ...
Modigliani inspires diversity
March 04, 2020
Art mirrors society. For teacher candidates in the junior-intermediate program, their project reflects the provinces’ diverse classrooms.
Preterm births and learning
March 02, 2020
Preterm babies are more likely to fall behind their counterparts when it comes to learning at school. But, identifying the preterm babies who will ...
Dancing for social justice
February 20, 2020
Dance and drama are more than performing arts. Rather, these disciplines teach important life-skills such as communication, collaboration, ...
Deacon brings education, sport passions to Senate
February 13, 2020
While the long-time educator, administrator, coach, and amateur sport advocate was an avid follower of current events and a voracious reader, ...
Supporting Kids Help Phone
January 29, 2020
Teacher candidates played soccer in a bubble, had fun and raised money for Kids Help Phone, but when it comes to mental health awareness, they ...
‘The Showdown in the Downtown’
January 29, 2020
Physician, philanthropist and former mixed martial artist has taken his passion for combat sports and turned it into a fundraising event for the ...
Alumnus touts ‘roller coaster’ at velodrome
January 28, 2020
For six years, Craig Saari, BA’01 (Kinesiology), BEd’02, has been president, coach, manager, troubleshooter and mobilizer at the ...
CYDC celebrates second anniversary
January 22, 2020
One referral every 1.5 days. That’s how busy the Child and Youth Development Clinic has been in two years of operation. Since the clinic ...
Junior Astronauts touching down at H.B. Beal
January 13, 2020
Western Space will lead 100 Grade 9 students at H.B. Beal Secondary School in Junior Astronauts programming on Tuesday, January 14, 2020.
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