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Director's subject files

Series consists of records made or received by the Director of the Professional Programs division of the Faculty of Education in the course of administering the program area.

Activities documented include policy development, budget planning, and staffing, including the hiring and orientation of school and faculty associates (professionals from the BC school system seconded to assist in the delivery of the PDP program); curriculum and program planning, including First Nations education, French immersion, and decentralization of SFU's PDP program; conferences, colloquia, liaison with school districts, and administration of external PDP sites; liaison with faculty task forces and committees, other units in the faculty, other SFU departments, other universities, provincial government ministries and agencies, and educational and professional associations; and student relations, advising, and post-graduation employment.

Records include correspondence, reports, proposals, statistics, program information, orientation packages and handbooks, lists of faculty associates, policies and procedures, event schedules, notes and working papers, and printed reference material.

For a list of organizations included in the correspondence, see the "Access points" section below.

External programs year-end reports

Following the faculty's 1972 re-organization, it initiated a series of "external programs" designed to offer components of the PDP program from sites outside the SFU Burnaby campus. External sites included Coquitlam, Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Chilliwack, Kelowna, Kamloops, Penticton, Nelson, Vernon, Cranbrook, Salmon Arm, Mount Currie, Prince George, Dawson Creek, and Terrace. This sub-sub-series consists of the year-end annual reports summarizing the activities and administration of the various external programs.

Reports and studies

Sub-sub-series consists of papers and reports relating to the SFU PDP program collected by the Faculty of Education as a library and research reference resource. The papers include Director's reports, program proposals and evaluations, studies by faculty members on various topics relating to teacher education, interviews, and consultants in-service program reports (reviewing support provided to school associates supervising PDP students in the classroom-teaching component of the program).

Course development files

Sub-sub-series consists of records relating to the planning, administration, delivery, and evaluation of the course-work component of the PDP program and its modules. PDP course numbers fall in the 400 block: EDUC 401, 402, 405, 406, 407.

Records include course descriptions, workshop and project outlines, reports, proposals, evaluations, program information, orientation handbooks, reading lists, teaching material and guides, registration procedures, student lists, schedules, forms, questionnaires, notes, working papers, and correspondence.

SITE 1983: New Directions in Counselling and Education

The theme of the SITE 1983 was "New Directions in Counselling and Education". Speakers were Dr. David Aspy (Texas Women's University), Dr. Bernard Berenson (American International College), Dr. Lloyd West (University of Calgary), Dr. Jack Martin (SFU), and Dr. Bryan Hiebert (SFU). Records comprise audio cassettes.

SITE 1984: Computers in Education

The theme of SITE 1984 was "Computers in Education". Speakers were Daniel Watt, Nancy Flodin (British Columbia Teachers' Federation), Molly Watt, Seymour Papert, Gordon Lawrence (University of Florida), and Sandy Dawson (SFU). Records consist of audio cassettes.

SITE 1985: Quality School Through Staff Development

The theme of SITE 1985 was "Quality School Through Staff Development". Speakers were Marv Wideen (SFU), Leo Marshall (North Vancouver School District), Linda Kaser (BC Ministry of Education), Kit Grauer (Richmond School District), Anna Steffin (Delta School District), Robert Stake (University of Illinois), Michael Fullan (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Walter Doyle (University of Texas), Maurice Gibbons (SFU), David Hopkins (West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education), Lou Rubin (University of Illinois), Stan Shapson (SFU), and Ian Andrews (SFU). Records consist of audio cassettes.

SITE 1987

Speakers at SITE 1987 were Tom Schroeder (University of Calgary), Robby Fried (Brown University), Wanda Cassidy (SFU), Milton McClaren (SFU), Robert Walker (SFU), and Kim Campbell (MLA). Records consist of audio cassettes.

SITE 1988: Global Issues

The theme of SITE 1988 was "Global Issues". Speakers recorded were Lucy McNeil (broadcaster), Robert Moore (Canadian International Development Agency), Milton McClaren (SFU), Fred Knelman, Stephen Owen, David Selby (University of York), and George McRobbie (University of Pennsylvania). Records consist of audio cassettes.