Themes in Community

Learn the skills necessary to competently teach texts for youth in the classroom while co-creating a range of pedagogies for teaching diverse narratives in B.C.’s culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. What and how we read alongside youth matters.

Learn how to fill the growing hunger for contemplative perspectives and practices in educational institutions, communities and the world at large.

The MEd in Curriculum and Instruction: Digital and New Media Literacies is a fully online program for educators seeking to engage critically with digital tools and texts. Taught by literacy and language education faculty, the program blends theory and practice to support innovative, equitable teaching with media like podcasts, games, social media, and more.

Explore a variety of different conceptual frameworks and societal perspectives on the environment and address a range of global issues in this program. Reconnect with the natural and technological environments that sustain us in our emerging post-industrial society through: laboratory and research sessions; seminars on important global environmental issues; and independent opportunities for student-led research and guided inquiry both on-campus and to other field locations in the Georgia Basin region.

Explore active and interactive ways of maintaining health, vitality and well-being while learning to integrate scholarly inquiry with your personal and professional aspirations.

This Master of Education (MEd) program focuses on understanding how learners’ imaginations develop and exploring ways to engage and grow imagination in learning the material of the curriculum.

Explore innovations in mathematics education, examine multiple perspectives on teaching and learning of mathematics, and enhance their own teaching of mathematics, while learning the latest research and innovations in mathematics education. Through guided methodologies students will be scaffolded in the implementation of this research and innovations into their practice.

Explore ways to integrate nature-based learning into your teaching practice.

Collaboratively developed by Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Vancouver Community College (VCC). Both institutions have a commitment to the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education and a desire to foster community engagement in the Province of British Columbia.

Explore innovations in mathematics education, examine multiple perspectives on teaching and learning of mathematics, and enhance their own teaching of mathematics, while learning the latest research and innovations in mathematics education. Through guided methodologies students will be scaffolded in the implementation of this research and innovations into their practice.

The K-12 Educational Leadership cohort program is designed for practicing educators and administrators in the public, private, or independant K-12 school system. The program develops the research capacity and leadership skills of K-12 educators and will equip them for innovative practice in their contexts. It offers students a coherent program of study that integrates theory with practice, in addition to an opportunity to engage in a research project.

Collaboratively developed by Simon Fraser University (SFU) and Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT). This two-year MEd in Educational Leadership program takes place on the traditional unceded territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen Nations, on which SFU Surrey is located. 

The Post-Secondary Educational Leadership cohort program is designed for practicing educators across organizations that comprise adult learners (e.g. post-secondary, and healthcare). The program develops the research capacity and leadership skills of educators and will equip them for innovative practice in their diverse educational contexts.

Take a deeper dive into educational theory, research, and practice to bolster your teaching approach and improve student outcomes. This 12-month, part-time professional degree enables you to build on your SFU Graduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Studies in Education (GDE).

Take a deeper dive into educational theory, research, and practice within the context of wholistic participatory pedagogical pathways and Indigenous inquiry. This 12-month, part-time professional degree enables you to build on your SFU Graduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Studies in Education (GDE).

Take a deeper dive into educational theory, research, and practice to bolster your teaching approach and improve student outcomes. This 12-month, part-time professional degree enables you to build on your SFU Graduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Studies in Education (GDE).

Deepen your knowledge of how your students learn mathematics and help them engage with and succeed in the subject. This program is an opportunity to explore curriculum changes at your school to benefit your students, while also upgrading your own qualifications.

Our doctoral students in this program come from a variety of academic backgrounds. They also focus on an array of mathematics education contexts including primary, secondary, or college-level teaching and learning, as well as teacher preparation.