Faculty of Education

The Field Experience office arranges practicum placements for student teachers each semester, placing ED2500, PSI, PSII, and PSIII students in various schools around southern Alberta, across Canada, and beyond, and connects each one of them with a teacher mentor to guide them on their journey.

"Education entails nurturing the life of the mind. Teachers are and have always been the guardians of that life," Dr. Jane O'Dea.

For the first time, in coordination with the University of Belize, the Faculty of Education offered its master’s program to a cohort of international students. The program extension arose from Dr. Pamela Winsor’s long-standing affiliations with educators in Belize.

n 1967, Art Loewen received a phone call from a former colleague, Dr. Russell Leskiw, then acting president of a new university in Lethbridge, with a request that would change Loewen’s life.

Born in Calgary, Andrew Doyle (BA/BEd '10, MEd '20) moved to Lethbridge while in junior high when his mom attended the Faculty of Education. Coming from a family of schoolteachers, including a great-aunt who is a past Alberta Teachers’ Association president, Doyle enrolled in 2007.

In 2004, the Faculty of Education rolled out the Educational Leadership MEd program accepting 22 carefully screened students. “We have some fairly tight criteria that require successful teacher background,” says Aitken. “It sets the tone for a successful program.”

The FNMI Master of Education Curriculum Leadership program is slated to begin in January 2009 and will be offered jointly by the Faculty of Education in collaboration with Mi’Kai’sto Red Crow Community College. It is one of a kind in Canada.