About FVDES

Gordon Spann

Hello and welcome!

I am an online instructor at Fraser Valley Distance Education School. My teaching assignment includes Science 8 - 10 and Earth Science 11. I have been teaching full time in the public school system since 1982, teaching Physics, Math, Science and Computer Science, as well as, working part-time as a paramedic (PCP-IV) since 1984.

Other endeavours include being published with Person Education/Prentice Hall Canada. This is after years of work/research in the classroom and in collaboration with the University of British Columbia during the Technology Enhanced Secondary Science Instruction project. The TESSI experience also allowed me to work with educational reform in Mexico. This was an ongoing project for 3 years where we trained Mexican instructors here in Canada as well as in Mexico. It was a very interesting and exciting experience.

I have been involved with BCSPAC (formerly BCARC) since 1991 and the Executive Director of the British Columbia Schools' Programs Assessment Consortium since 1997. In 1995 I was fortunate enough to be a recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in Mathematics, Science and Technology.

Recent initiatives involve being a part of the Cisco Networking Academies. I have obtained my CCNA and CCAI certification in Aug 2000.I am looking forward to helping Distance Education students with their online science courses

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