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Pinning ceremony marks the pivot from trades to teaching for BEd tech candidates

Smiling woman holding a pin on a cardAnnie Armstrong pivoted from a career in film and television production to pursue a teaching career through the BEd Tech program (SHELBY JOHNSTON/University of Windsor)

By Kate Hargreaves

While July may be summer vacation for schools across Canada, it marks the beginning of the teaching careers of students in UWindsor’s Bachelor of Education in Technological Studies program. 

Hailing from all over the province, the BEd in Tech students spend the month of July on campus in the Faculty of Education before returning to their home school boards to complete their practicum and additional courses online.  

From the shop floor to the classroom: Tech ed alumni bring industry experience to high schools across Ontario

Mona Elkadri teaching hospitalityMona Elkadri teaches hospitality and tourism with the Greater Essex County District School Board (photo: Jeanette Dufour-Amaral)

By Kate Hargreaves 

Angela Langlais’s path to becoming a technological education teacher was a journey in more ways than one. 

A 2024 graduate of the University of Windsor's Bachelor of Education in Technological Studies Program (BEd Tech), Langlais is now a hairstyling and aesthetics teacher with the Keewatin-Patricia School Board at Dryden High School.