TEACHING HISTORY
Courses Taught
2020-Present
Full Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University
8Y21 – Dance-in-Education (PJ)
8Y22 – Dance-in-Education (JI)
8Y23 – Drama-in-Education (PJ)
8Y24 – Drama-in-Education (PJ)
2018-2020
Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University
8P30 – Language Arts/Literacy
8Y21 – Dance-in-Education (PJ)
8Y22 – Dance-in-Education (JI)
8Y23 – Drama-in-Education (PJ)
8Y24 – Drama-in-Education (PJ)
2013-2018
Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University
8P30 – Language Arts/Literacy
8P48 – Drama-in-Education (PJ)
8P58 - Drama-in-Education (JI)
2012-2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University
8P30 – Language Arts/Literacy
8P33 – Drama-in-Education
2011
Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University
8P33 – Drama-in-Education
Cohort Group
2010
Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University
8P23 – Drama-in-Education
Cohort Group
2004 to 2009
Instructor, University of British Columbia (UBC).
LLED 320 – Curriculum and Instruction in Language and Literacy Education: Elementary and Middle Years
LLED 433 – Drama-in-Education: Kindergarten and Primary Grades
LLED 434 – Drama in education: Middle and High School
LLED 441 – Introduction to Teaching Children’s Literature
Teaching-Related Employment
2003-2009
Creative Writing for Children curriculum developer, teacher, mentor.
Graduate Research Assistant, UBC/Family Services of Greater Vancouver, under the supervision of Dr. Theresa Rogers:
Working with street entrenched and homeless youth
Youth CLAIM project
Collecting and analyzing data about literacy, multimedia, and multi-modal meaning-making
Graduate Research Assistant, UBC/Vancouver School Board, under the supervision of Dr. Theresa Rogers:
Co-writing reading comprehension tests for the IRIS
Testing students’ reading comprehension (grades 3-8)
Collecting and analyzing data
2003-2009
Writer and performer for Tickle Trunk Players, Vancouver Theatre and Education Troupe.
2002-2006: Graduate Research Assistant
UBC/Newton Learning Centre (Surrey, BC) under the supervision of Dr. Theresa Rogers, Associate Professor (Faculty of Education)
Collecting and analyzing dat.
Organizing an end of the year student gallery to demonstrate how literacy and media intersect.
Tutoring reluctant and at-risk teens in the areas of literacy, creative writing, drama, visual art and filmmaking.
2002-2003: Graduate Research Assistant
UBC/Strathcona Public School (Vancouver, BC)
Under the supervision of Dr. Shelley Hymel, Professor (Faculty of Education)
Teaching both academic and social skills to children with special needs.
Assisting students as they are re-integrated into regular education classrooms.
1996-2002
Young People’s Conservatory summer school director, Rogue Music Theatre (Grants Pass, Oregon)
1999-2001
Special Education Teacher, Creedmoor Elementary School (North Carolina)
1999
Writing Composition Instructor, Southern Oregon Correctional Facility (Grants Pass, Oregon)
1998-1999
Special Education Teacher, Credle Elementary School (North Carolina)
1995-1998
Early Childhood Educator, Humberside Village Preschool (Toronto)
Testimonials
Kari is an inspiring teacher. Her interactive techniques in the class are motivating, fun and informative. Using Readers Theatre, she introduced me to a wide variety of children’s literature through a diverse set of activities that I still use in my classroom today. I love the way Kari explores literature through a mixture of subjects – art, drama, music. I try to teach my students to view literature in the same dynamic way that Kari taught me to.
Adrienne Stewardson, Grade 7 teacher Vancouver, BC
I have had the absolute pleasure of having Kari-Lynn Winters as an instructor for a Language and Literacy Education course at the University of British Columbia. She has been an inspiration to me, completely changing my own perception on the importance of literacy and teaching me to discover the “power of words”.
Kari has a very strong belief in an arts-integrated approach for literacy and has introduced to us many different multi-modal strategies, which would keep any class activity engaged, creative, and lively, just as her class is.
Always respectful, encouraging, and thoughtful, Kari has gone above and beyond what any university instructor would be expected to do and has reached out to every single student in our class. I feel very fortunate to have been part of Kari’s class and truly feel that I will carry everything that I have learned from her throughout my own professional career in the future.
Kay Shinada
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