Liz Coulson

Liz Coulson

Title/Position
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Education Studies
Department of Language Studies

Elizabeth (Liz) Coulson is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Education Studies Minor program at UTM. For over a decade, she served as Secondary Practicum Coordinator in the initial Teacher Education Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education where she was appointed liaison to the Ministry of Education. She holds a PhD in Education from Western University in curriculum design and was a former elementary and secondary teacher in the Halton and Peel District school boards. Her research investigates instructional modalities pushing innovation in teaching and learning forward by launching a variety of culturally responsive social entrepreneurship projects. She is co-founder of UTM’s first supplemental education course and was recently appointed co-chair of the Dean’s experiential learning group designing several international experiential learning courses for UTM students in Southeast Asia, Europe and South America.