Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant awarded to UBC
Pedagogical Assemblage: Building and sustaining teacher capacity through mentoring programs in British Columbia, a BC-focused research project on mentorship, has received a 2014 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. This three-year research project brings together the aligned interests of the Teacher Education Office (TEO) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), the British Columbia Ministry of Education, the British Columbia School Superintendents’ Association (BCSSA), and the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) to establish a leadership network focused on creating strategies and policies to support and strengthen new teacher practice. This project will work alongside the NTMP to explore the efficacy of mentorship programs and the ways teacher mentorship can enhance teacher effectiveness, grow leadership capacity, and mobilize teacher knowledge. The resulting research aims to provide a greater understanding of how to effectively build and sustain teacher capacity through mentoring programs, and subsequently inform the development of a province-wide teacher mentoring program in British Columbia.
