Courses of Interest

Program and Registration Information

Below are programs for teachers/new graduates and courses for students. Students please remember to check courses against your Program Sheet, which outlines the requirements of your degree by listing each course/requirement you must complete in order to graduate.

Professional Development of Pre-Service Teachers

A superb online program for new elementary teacher graduates (and for any teacher who needs to set up a new classroom) called the “R.E.A.D.Y. for School Academy.” The Academy is designed to be a practical bridge between theory and practice for new teachers.

Through this platform, provides vital, real-world guidance to beginning educators navigating the challenges of today’s classrooms, directly addressing the growing teacher attrition challenges in Canada and beyond. Here is a link to her work that would be of interest to Faculties of Education: https://www.drlorifriesen.com/academy-for-universities

Here is a link to the podcast (with 650,000+ downloads in 13 countries worldwide), and which was just nominated as one of the Top 3 Podcasts Worth Listening to in 2025 for Elementary Teachers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beginning-teacher-talk/id1456137677

EDU 563: Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous Students

EDU 595: Special Topics in Educational Theory - Indigenous & Relational Approaches to Assessment

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CSL 370/WGS 498: Walls to Bridges

Identity of self in relationships with others

In this course we will discuss and make art about how we build communities and social change. Each student will consider how their own gifts strengthen their communities, where their gifts are best put to use for change, and how our gifts complement each other. We will examine Euro-centric community institutions, and consider where they fall short of what we can imagine for ourselves. Kokum Bonny Spencer will share teachings on decolonizing our ideas of social change and reciprocity.  Join us as we navigate the possibilities and limits of the idea of "community," and the roles we can play in creating the worlds where we can all thrive.

This course is offered inside a penitentiary involving equal numbers of incarcerated and non-incarcerated students and requires an application process.
Please email lprins@ualberta.ca or hbzhang@ualberta.ca for application details.

EDFX 490: Beyond Four Walls

EDEL 495: Musical Creativity Across the Curriculum

EDSE 401: Outdoor Education and Children

This course can help any education student in numerous ways and be counted as either an education elective course or an open option course.