BCTF Public Education Conference 2009
Public Education: Protecting our Children’s Future is the theme for a BCTF-sponsored conference November 13–14, 2009.
Location: Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel, 3500 Cessna Drive, Richmond, BC.
BCTF will fund a teacher and parent from each local. Provincial partner groups, education support staff unions, trustees, MLAs, and advocacy groups have also been invited.
The conference will focus on issues around authentic assessment, standardized testing’s effect on teaching and learning, student engagement, international trends, what parents want for their children, assessing for learning, and alternatives to the testing regime.
Workshop presenters, facilitators, and speakers are from the ranks of parents, teachers, principals, education professors, BCTF staff, superintendents, and secondary school students.
Friday evening’s keynote panel at 7:00 p.m. will be Dr. Sue Montabello, principal of Maywood elementary school in Burnaby; Dr. Ted Riecken, dean of education at the University of Victoria; and Sue Spalding, teacher and parent from Terrace. Workshops and plenaries run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 14.
To register, view the program, see the workshops and facilitator information, click the links below.
Conference Registration deadline is Monday, November 9. Late registrations will be accepted if space permits.