“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

School Administration and the Law might be best characterized as the scariest course I’ve ever taken.  The reason behind this fear is the knowledge I now possess about the many ways that we as educators are vulnerable to an incredible amount of circumstances that are...

Supervisory Policy and Practice allowed me to reflect on what sort of supervisor I would like to be and what sort of framework I believed allowed for the most professional growth within the teaching profession.  Throughout the course a common theme was that very few...

The Introduction to Curriculum course came at the prefect time for me as a teacher designing a school initiated credit (SIC).  We learned that in order to design curriculum, educators need to take into account the needs of many different stakeholders.  Looking at how...

  Ethical and Legal Issues for Counsellors represented an entirely new perspective for me within the world of education.  Having never considered becoming a guidance counsellor before, I have to admit that I rarely looked at students through that lens before...

Introduction to Educational Administration was a bit of a wake-up call for me.  When I began to gain a more thorough understanding of the massive umbrella of responsibilities that a good principal must account for I was overwhelmed.  Before the course I essentially...

This was my favourite course that I participated in during by Master’s Program.  I enjoyed the course so immensely because literally every piece of reading, every assignment, and every segment of direct instruction had a clear pragmatic purpose for the students in my...

Education of Children Who Are Gifted/Talented/Creative focused on how to identify and teach giftedness.  My undergraduate studies never even touched on this theme, so it was really interesting to delve into how to challenge these students and allow them to benefit...

In an ideal world, with the proper format and instructor, I believe Interpreting Educational Research would have been very useful and quite foundational to the rest of my graduate studies experience.  Unfortunately the version of the course I received was not ideal. ...

As one might expect for the course name and after reading the course outline, Overview of Educational Issues covered a lot of territory and served as a great introduction to themes that would delved into several times throughout my Master’s of Education journey.  We...

Graduate Scholarly Writing with Professor Marion Terry Ph.D. functioned as quite a wake-up call in addition to an introduction to graduate studies for me.  I’ve since learned that Professor Terry is quite renowned around Brandon University for her attention to...