The Alberta Teachers' Association
Anna Liza Ponce is an experienced educator at Calgary Catholic School District, serving as a High School Social Studies Teacher, Social Studies Coordinating Teacher, Theory of Knowledge Teacher, and International Baccalaureate Programme CAS and Extended Essay Coordinator since May 2002. Anna Liza also holds the position of Professional Development Coordinating Teacher and has been involved with AB Ed as a Social Studies 30-2 Standards Confirmer, Table Lead, Marker, and Item Writer since January 2006. Additionally, Anna Liza has been an Association Instructor with The Alberta Teachers' Association since September 2016, where workshops on pedagogy and best practices are facilitated. Academic credentials include a Master of Education in Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice from Western University, a Certificate of Global Education from Rice University, a Master's degree in Education/Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Phoenix, and a Bachelor of Education in Secondary Social Studies and English/Language Arts from the University of Alberta.
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The Alberta Teachers' Association
The Alberta Teachers' Association, as the professional organization of teachers, promotes and advances public education, safeguards standards of professional practice and serves as the advocate for its members. As set out in the Teaching Profession Act, the objects of The Alberta Teachers' Association are as follows: To advance and promote the cause of education in Alberta; to improve the teaching profession by promoting and supporting recruitment and selection practices that ensure capable candidates for teacher education, by promoting and supporting adequate programs of preservice preparation, internship and certification, by promoting the establishment of working conditions that will make possible the best level of professional service, by organizing and supporting groups that tend to improve the knowledge and skill of teachers, by meetings, publications, research and other activities designed to maintain and improve the competence of teachers, and by advising, assisting, protecting and disciplining members in the discharge of their professional duties and relationships; to arouse and increase public interest in the importance of education and public knowledge of the aims of education, financial support for education, and other education matters; to cooperate with other organizations and bodies in Canada and elsewhere having the same or like aims and objects.