FHASS Welcomes Paula Ogg!

Paula Ogg has been a professor at Sheridan since 2011 consulting on curriculum design and development, teaching and learning, and instructional design and technology as well as teaching in EASL, COMM, and TESOL Plus classes.

Paula has certification as a TESL Trainer and holds OCELT and ICTEAL, a BA in English Literature, and a MEd in curriculum, instruction, technology. Within TESL Ontario, she is currently a member of the Accreditation Appeals Committee and was formerly a member of the Standards Committee and Board of Directors.

She has over 26 years of experience teaching pre-service, in-service, and service teachers in addition to teaching academic English and language arts. At Sheridan and beyond, she has contributed to a wealth of workshops, projects, mentorship programs, research, conference presentations, and publications recognized in a Collaborative Teaching Award in 2022.

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Paula Answers Alchemy’s Proust Questionnaire

 Most important lesson I learned in kindergarten: Not to judge a book by its cover

Moment in my life I’d like to re-live: Swimming with the dolphins in the Bahamas

The word/phrase/expression I overuse in the classroom: Technology is only as good as it works

If I weren’t a teacher I’d be: A hotelier

My favourite historical, literary, or cinematic character(s): Ophelia played by Daisy Ridley in Ophelia (2018)

My least favourite historical, literary, or cinematic character(s): Ophelia played by Helena Bonham Carter in Hamlet (1990)