Senior instructor (tenure)
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Dr. Carr has demonstrated educational leadership by developing innovative, literacy-based approaches to teaching French as a second language: curriculum reform in BC, authorship of FSL resources used in schools across Canada, award-winning teaching at UBC, and roles as president of provincial and national language teacher associations. Her 2006 research on BC French teachers led to innovations at UBC: a new cohort (FLAGS, 2007-13) and French methods course for all elementary teacher candidates.
Contributions:
Decades of leadership in French second language education, curriculum development and teacher development across Canada: http://ce.educ.ubc.ca/french-education
2007-present: Acting President (2014), Vice-President (2013), Director at Large, Board of Directors (2009-12), National Council representative (2007-09), Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers.
Carr, W., Dicks, J., & Lapkin, S. (Eds.) (2011). Innovations in second language teaching and teacher education. [Special issue]. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 14(2). http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/CJAL/issue/view/1507
2012-present: Canadian expert representative, Empowering Language Networks Committee, European Centre of Modern Languages, Graz, Austria.
2013-14: Coordinated UBC's Year of Teacher Education's (32) events involving Faculty of Education colleagues, teacher candidates, school district personnel and UBC alumni: http://yte.educ.ubc.ca/archived-events
Keywords:
French language education; Teacher education; Teacher professional learning; Second language education; International Baccalaureate.
wendy.carr@ubc.ca
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