TRU Associate Professor Dr. Laura Doan discusses a province-wide peer-mentoring network to support early childhood educators and encourage them to stay in the field. It…
Dr. Laura Doan How do you define success in research? Two years ago, Dr. Laura Doan embarked upon a project designed to develop a provincewide…
Canada Research Chair in Indigenizing Higher Education Shelly Johnson writes about the wary relationship Indigenous peoples have with Canada's post-secondary institutions and how to move…
Teaching children how to read is primarily a teacher’s job, but parents play a valuable role. Learning to read is one of the most important…
TRU BEd graduate Breana Paulos is spending the summer working at the Ashcroft Museum on The Project of Heart. It's a tile-decorating program that gives…
Excited, giggling kids marching about, adults scurrying after them, joyful exclamations, and abandoned, half-eaten mandarin oranges filled the ordinarily peaceful, serene space of the round…
News that TRU is starting a new Trades Assistant Program in February was picked up by several media outlets, including Academica Top Ten. The program…
Thompson Rivers University is launching a new Trades Assistant Program for students with diverse abilities needing additional supports who are interested in working in construction,…
Your practicum is around the corner. You’re nervous, yet ready. But do your clothes suit the occasion? "Practicum is a topic that's discussed in class…
Three Thompson Rivers University students studying abroad are among 50 recipients of the Premier’s International Scholarship. Read more
A Williams Lake campus TRU student is spending this summer in an old schoolhouse, sharing and preserving the history of the area where she grew…
TRU researcher Laura Doan recently got great news and InfoNews Kamloops has her story. She's receiving $575,000 to study supports needed for early childhood educators.…
When Roxane Letterlough was in school, she didn’t see many faces like hers at the head of the classroom. The girl from the St’át’imc Nation…
In BC, more than half of all early childhood educators (ECEs) leave the profession within five years which limits the sector’s capacity to grow, and…
Roxane Letterlough spoke to CHNL's Howie Reimer about the 16 spaces in the Bachelor of Education program dedicated for Indigenous students who aspire to become…
TRU is adding 16 seats to its Bachelor of Education program that are dedicated for Indigenous students and come with supports such as an Elder…
KAMLOOPS–Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is expanding its Bachelor of Education program by 16 seats in September to help address a shortage of Indigenous teachers in…
Thompson Rivers University has won two of three prestigious national teaching awards from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STHLE). On Wednesday,…
Language makes it possible to share knowledge, culture and identity across generations and diverse peoples. After millennia of Secwepemctsín being a powerful language of the…
Updated April 4, 2019 Teaching is a great career choice for a few reasons. The overall enrolment of K-12 students, which was in decline from…
