Recent Publications
Cover letter
Dr Hopper has taught at all levels of the school curriculum both in Canada and the UK. He maintains strong links with local schools through a teacher education approach known as school integrated teacher education (SITE) where observed and assisted by pre-service teachers, he teaches PE to classes of children with the eventual goal of the pre-service teachers taking over the teaching process. He has given keynote addresses in Australia and South Korea applying complexity thinking to TGfU and creative dance respectively. Dr Hopper is currently the chair of the TGfU Special Interest Group affiliated to the AIESEP. He was co-editor of the book published from the last TGfU international conference entitled TGfU...Simply Good Pedagogy: Understanding a Complex Challenge. He is currently engaged in a three-year study with Dr Joy Butler entitled “A Study of Situated Ethics in Inventing Games: Teacher Perspectives and Student Learning.”
RECENT PEER REFEREED CONTRIBUTIONS
Dr Tim Hopper publications is a group in Education on Mendeley.
Interests
Keen tennis playing. Now play age-group tournaments and local open doubles tennis events.
Contact information
| Postal address | School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, University of Victoria PO Box 3015 STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 3P1 Canada |
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| Town | Victoria |
| City/region | BC |
| Country | Canada |
| Fax number | 12507216601 |
| Business phone | 12507218385 |
Personal information
| Date of birth | 12 June 1066 |
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| Place of birth | Margate |
| Citizenship | British |
| Visa status | Permenant Residence Canada |
| Gender identity | Man |
| Marital status | Married |
Personal goals
Develop my ability to play tennis to my full potential for my age group.
Academic goals
- Explore how complexity thinking can inform teaching and learning in higher education.
- Use research to explore how learning happens within communities of practice focused on a common goal.
- Develop the teacher education programs I work in to become more engaging across courses, inquiry focused and authentically linked to both pre-service teachers learning and the learning of students in schools.
Career goals
Develop my SSHRC research projects together to enhance our understanding of learming in a complex society.
Personal skills
Wide array of digital literacy skills with different popular applications including but not limited to iMovie, Prezi, Googledrive Apps, Word, Powerpoint and other Cloud based applications like Youtube and Mendeley.
Tennis to high level having been a assistant professional coach and a nationally rank tennis player in my age group. Have established myself as one of the better senior players in the province of BC.
Academic skills
Research on teacher education and digital portoflios
Research on PE pedagogy
Application of Complexity theory to teaching and learning
Work skills
Tennis coach
Educational Technology
Digital Portfolios
Physical Education content areas
Teacher Educator
Employment history
Association Professor at Univeristy of Victoria
1998 - present
Program lead Physical Education
Education history
Doctor of Philosphy (Graduate) at Univerisity of Alberta
1993 - 1996Certifications, accreditations and awards
LTA assistant professional tennis coach certificate
1989
The part 2 qualification is equivalent to club coach award in Canada and USA.
Profile Information
This eportfolio lists open source software I use in my courses to enhance student learning. I am using these digital technologies to explore how I can make my courses develop the conditions that would allow learning to emerge from students becoming more socialy connected around a common intent. My goal is to explore challenges that the self-organizing group can experience as it adapts to the challenges of the environment. Technologies such as MOODLE (learning management system), MAHARA (open source ePortfolio) and Prezi allow a richer connection between students, the world wide web and their experiences in courses. The technology allows a more decentralized network between students to form as neighbourly interactions enable each students learning to inform the collective learning as learning through recursive elaboration and recall of ideas n context.
- Display name: Dr Tim Hopper
- Email address: thopper@uvic.ca
- Official website address: http://education2.uvic.ca/Faculty/thopper/index.htm
- Town: Victoria
- Occupation: Associate Professor
- Industry: Education