Education
| DATE: | Wednesday, February 29, 2:30 pm |
| LOCATION: | Town Square A and B, Burnaby Campus (and live video) |
| SPEAKER: | Panel discussion moderated by Patricia Sackville with a selection of Teaching Excellence Award Recipients |
| SESSION TITLE: | Teaching Excellence at BCIT |
Leslie Fairbairn, School of Business
Striving for excellence.
Leslie teaches math and statistics in the School of Business at BCIT. She loves staying active, meeting new groups of students each year and continually learning how to make her teaching even better.
Scott Hagan, Ph.D., School of Academic Studies
Motivation is key.
Dr. Hagan has been teaching calculus and technical math to students in engineering, computing and health programs at BCIT since 2000. Prior to BCIT, Dr. Hagan was a researcher at the Computational Modeling Lab at the National Agriculture Research Center in Tsukuba, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of McGill and B.Sc. from the University of Alberta.
El Ladha, School of Health Sciences
The phrase I like and use the most is by an unknown author, "It’s not shameful not to know, but it’s shameful not to ask." I usually start my class with this on the board/screen.
El has been an instructor at BCIT’s School of Health Sciences since 1993, teaching the Critical Care option in the Specialty Nursing program and occasionally teaching in the Emergency and High Acuity program.
Tamara Pongracz, School of Transportation
Tamara Pongracz is an interprovincial-qualified plumber. She holds a Master of Education from Simon Fraser University and is the Chief Instructor of the Trades Access department which includes the Trades Discovery program and the Trades Learning Centre.
Ian Ross, School of Energy
Ian has taught Automation and Instrumentation at BCIT for the past 35 years. He has worked in biomedical research for a number of years at the Hospital board in Glasgow servicing various hospitals including Killearn and the Western. He holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Physics from Glasgow University and has worked in Research and Development in Fibre Optics for Barr and Stroud and taught physics at Algonquin College for five years.
Wayne Horvath, School of Construction and the Environment
“Inspire” through knowledge, professional conduct and above all, compassion.
Wayne is currently the Program Head for the Sustainable Resource Management program and has worked at BCIT for 15 years. He feels very fortunate to have been involved with numerous projects and programs in the natural resource area, and primarily in the forestry discipline.
Can't make it to the session? Watch live online video during PowerHour.
If you have questions, please contact:- Donna Woo, 604-454-2288 or Donna_Woo@bcit.ca
- Chris Golding, 604-432-8312 or Chris_Golding@bcit.ca
