STEG-BC exists....
Purely for the benefit of teachers of Tourism. STEG-BC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external sites. Bob Thompson, Chair
Bob resides in the Comox Valley, on Vancouver Island, where he teaches Tourism at Highland Secondary School. He is also the Career Program Coordinator and head of the Work Experience Program. A long-time Director of Comox Valley Tourism, and Honourary Citizen of Comox, one of several community awards for his contribution to education and business, he was the pilot instructor for secondary Tourism courses in BC, and a founding pilot instructor and coordinator for the national Canadian Academy Of Travel and Tourism program. He has produced numerous curricula documents, classroom resources and conference presentations -- consulted on program implementation in several countries and, following the completion of his MA from RRU, he has branched into developing blended online learning models.
Joanne Bragg Joanne lives in the outdoors as much as possible in Invermere, BC. She works teaching business courses, and coordinating ACE IT, Apprenticeship and Work Experience at David Thompson Secondary School, Invermere. She enjoys skiing, snowboarding, snowshoing, cross country skiing, running, mountain biking, and road biking. These all take place with her husband, 2 dogs, or outdoor enthusiastic friends. Joanne enjoys presenting to groups and has done so in BC, across Canada and the US on multiple subjects including DTSS business ed school model, tourism programs, and Brain Gym. Joanne has her Masters in Educational Leadership. She is a Brain Gym instructor, and is a certified yoga teacher.
Reid A. Nelson, BEd, MEd Reid has
been a professional educator for 26 years with most of that time at the
Secondary level. He began working in the area of Tourism in 1999
enrolling five classes at Mount Elizabeth Secondary School. The
Tourism program at Mt. Elizabeth is highly successful with no less than
two classes of Tourism 11 each year partially due to Reid's enthusiam
for the subject area. Reid was asked to speak at the Tourism Educators
Conference 2002 in Nelson on the success of the tourism program at Mt.
Elizabeth. A world traveller, Reid anually offers students the
opportunity to see Europe during Spring Break.
Loretta Fogarty Loretta Fogarty, who has a Bachelor of Home Economics and teaching certificate from the University of British Columbia, began her career in 1977 for the Quesnel School District, specializing in Foods and Nutrition. In 1992, she started the tourism Career Preparation program at Quesnel Secondary School where she teaches Tourism and Home Economics and is the school’s Canadian Academy of Travel & Tourism coordinator and Career Program Facilitator. Loretta is also Manager of Site Operations at Cottonwood House Historic Site a Conference Board of Canada Partners of Education award-winning project. Cottonwood House is a historic site owned by the BC government and operated by School District 28. (Quesnel). She is also working on the team involved in the development of the new British Columbia tourism curriculum for the Ministry of Education.
Awards
include Canadian Tourism Commission and Canadian Academy of Travel
& Tourism Best Practices Educator’s Award (2004) and the Quesnel
Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award for Community Excellence
(2004).
Dave Hutchings The guy who maintains the BC-STEG website. Happy to be freeee...... Currently running a consulting agency that is multi-faceted. Contact me.
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