Operation Happy to Be Here
Current Highlights
2022 Questionnaire
Orillia student perspectives (n=120)
The following is a brief overview of some of the data collected on the Orillia campus. Participants were asked to reflect on their time in the Professional Program and their responses are noted below:
2022 Questionnaire
Thunder Bay student perspectives (n=61)
The following is a brief overview of some of the data collected on the Thunder Bay campus. Participants were asked to reflect on their time in the Professional Program and their responses are noted below:
This project is also interested in knowing more about its participants. Some demographics explored include the following:
What city do you currently live in? (i.e. your home while you are in the Professional Program?)
(Orillia Students)
(Thunder Bay Students)
About
The Operation Happy to Be Here project holds as its central aim to support learning environments and experiences that might best support our teacher candidates' journeys to becoming exceptional educators. It began in the fall of 2018 as a collection of students, staff, instructors and faculty advisors that came together to discuss ways to ameliorate the Professional Program. The initiative has involved a variety of methodologies to help better understand and respond to the student experience, including a broad-based, annual student questionnaire, follow-up focus groups, targeted focus groups, straw polls, and faculty working groups, and student class projects.
The focus of this website is to house and present constructive feedback, ideas, and recommendations for the program that have been generated by those closest to its implementation. The website contains findings from various data collection methods but also draws on relevant academic literature, faculty expertise, and comparative examples from similar education faculties. This format is intentionally accessible and transparent so that students, faculty and other stakeholders may all participate. It is also a living text, so it is a but also may be further developed, adjusted and updated as the process unfolds.
In sum, this initiative proposes a vision for what this program might offer, constructive recommendations to achieve this vision and ideas and intent for their implementation.
Get in Touch
If you are interested in more information, sharing your perspectives in more depth, or volunteering with the project, please leave your contact information here: