The Department of Language & Literacy Education (LLED) has an immediate hiring opportunity for a Print Materials Collection Coordinator (GAA position) for the 2014_15 academic year. This position is supported by the Office of Graduate Programs and Research for a term from September 1, 2014 – April 30, 2015 (32 weeks) at 10 hours a week.
Updated CV and cover letter can be sent as a PDF or Word attachment to lled-posting.educ@ubc.ca. Please indicate in the subject line you are applying for “LLED Print Materials Collection”
Application deadline for all positions: Friday July 25th 4pm
The Department of Language & Literacy Education has immediate hiring opportunities for 3 Digital Literacy & Literature Centre (DLC) GAAs. These positions are supported by the Office of Graduate Programs and Research for a term from September 1, 2014 – April 30, 2015 (32 weeks) at 10 hours a week.
Updated CV and cover letter can be sent as a PDF or Word attachment to lled-posting.educ@ubc.ca. Please indicate in the subject line the course you are applying for “LLED DLC GAA”
Application deadline for all positions: Friday July 25th 4pm
You are cordially invited to an open session of the African Storybook Summit, to take place in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC, on Thursday, June 26, 2014. The event, co-sponsored by the Wall Institute, will take place from 9:00am to 10:30am in the DLC (Ponderosa F, Room 103). UBC President Stephen Toope will open the summit and Dean Blye Frank will welcome participants. The project director, Tessa Welch, will give an update on the project, and Dr. Bonny Norton, the project’s research advisor, will serve as chair. The African Storybook Project is an innovative digital project that promotes early literacy in sub-Saharan Africa (http://www.africanstorybook.org/). Past and present Education graduate students are active in the project, which was highlighted in a recent UBC News article.
Please RSVP Elizabeth Namazzi, the summit facilitator, at bukuschnamazzi7@hotmail.com, by Friday, June 13.
Refreshments will be provided. All welcome!
LLED’s, Samuel Andema, will defend his doctoral dissertation on Friday, July 4th. All are welcome to attend.
Title: Promoting Digital Literacy in African Education: ICT Innovations in a Ugandan Primary Teachers’ College
When: Friday, July 4, 2014 at 9:00 am
Where: Graduate Student Centre, at 6371 Crescent Road, room 200
Supervisor: Dr. Bonny Norton
Doctoral defences are public. Examinations normally take 2–3 hours to complete. Exam room doors are locked once exams are in progress. Late entry is not permitted.
The Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED) in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track Instructor I position in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). The appointment is expected to commence January 1, 2015. Please find details of position here: LLED – Instructor I in TESL. Application deadline is September 26, 2014.
The Department of Language & Literacy Education has an opportunity for a part-time adjunct in the West Kootenay Teacher Education program for the 2014-2015 academic year. We are accepting applications for the following course: LLED 366 (1.5) –Teaching Reading and Literature: Secondary. Please find details 014-LLED 366-WKTEP.
Deadline for applications June 16, 2014.
The Department of Language & Literacy Education has an opportunity for a part-time adjunct in the West Kootenay Teacher Education program for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Deadline for applications is June 16, 2014 by 4pm.