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2014-15 Education Student Council.

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Outgoing student council ‘an excellent team,’ says departing senior stick

March 20, 2015 — 
Year's highlights included new EdCon, successful socials and breakfast events

Melanie Baruch presented her research on 'The Business of Therapy' during this year's Graduate Student Symposium.

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Graduate Student Symposium succeeds in exploring ‘educational minds of the future’

March 18, 2015 — 
Attendees impressed by quality of event and variety of research presentations

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M.Ed. graduate wins national award for cyberbullying research

March 16, 2015 — 
Main finding was that students used online and offline strategies to deal with aggressors

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Fund the future recipients headed to France, northern Manitoba

March 9, 2015 — 
Four students presented with bursaries to help with trips to the north and France

The Education Student Council for 2015-16.

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New student council hopes for improved EdCon, collaboration between undergraduates, graduates

March 6, 2015 — 
Freshly elected group hoping to expand on programs introduced this year

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Article introduces new Bachelor of Education program

March 5, 2015 — 
The new B.Ed. will provide beginning teachers with a solid foundation, associate dean (undergraduate) writes

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Teacher candidates learn innovative method of mathematics instruction

February 27, 2015 — 
In a Grade 8 classroom in the lower level of Arthur A. Leach School, students and teacher candidates watch as a group of math students stands at the front of the room, calculating how many combinations of icing can go on nine different cupcakes in a scenario about a baker.

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Panelists dole out sage advice to EdCon attendees

February 21, 2015 — 
Bachelor of Education students attending this year’s EdCon were treated to various panelists who provided different perspectives on their teaching careers.

Gerald Farthing, Deputy Education Minister.

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Be there for every student, deputy education minister tells teacher candidates

February 21, 2015 — 
The first school that Gerald Farthing attended was a one-room schoolhouse with only nine other children. But when the deputy education minister sent his own children to school, theirs had 800 students, he told Faculty of Education teacher candidates during his keynote speech at EdCon, held during Reading Week.

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Faculty of Education Professor applauds mandatory indigenous course

February 19, 2015 — 
Frank Deer, Director of Indigenous Initiatives in the U of M's Faculty of Education, recently penned an opinion piece in the Winnipeg Free Press following the proposal at the University of Winnipeg to introduce a mandatory indigenous content course for all undergraduate students.

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