The Master Teacher

First Edition: y press (Vancouver, BC), 2001.

Second Edition: BCTF Lesson Aids (Vancouver, BC), 2001.

Third Edition: Island Scholastic Press (Quesnel, BC), 2002. Available at the University of Northern British Columbia, The Geoffrey R. Weller Library: LB1025.3.L85 2002.

Fourth Edition: BCTF Lesson Aids (Vancouver, BC), 2004.

Fifth Edition: Island Scholastic Online (Quesnel, BC), 2006.

Sixth Edition: Island Scholastic Press (Quesnel, BC), 2014.

Revised Edition: Island Scholastic Press (Sardis, BC), 2015.

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Table of Contents

Sunglasses and Education

You Have Learned to Think

The Curriculum God

Hostility Surrounds them Like Thunderclouds

That’s When I Gag

A Plethora of Variables

How Big is the Universe?

A Walk Down Memory Lane

Why Did Aboriginal Children Leave Home to Live in Residential Schools?

Aboriginal Education in Quesnel Now, Cultural Genocide in Canada Then

Motivation from a Humanistic Point of View

Lukiv’s Principles of Instruction

Burnout

The Master Teacher

The Teacher

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The Author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer—and an independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. His formal apprenticeship includes intensive personal direction from writers such as Canada’s Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA’s Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England’s D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry), and includes studies at The University of British Columbia (The Creative Writing Department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer’s Digest School (novel writing program).

He and his wife have four daughters, one granddaughter, and two grandsons. Over many years he taught a variety of subjects (English, English Literature, communications, guitar, drama, social studies, mathematics, science, consumer education, career planning, Response Ability Pathways®, physical education, composition, and creative writing) at award-winning McNaughton Centre (Quesnel, BC), a school for troubled teenagers. Since 1978, he has edited CHALLENGER international, a literary journal that, over many years, focussed attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets, and, since 2001, he has edited The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education, a scholarly forum of research, practise, and theory. Through Island Scholastic Press, he has published many poetry collections, some by well-established poets such as George Swede (Canada), Paul Gotro (Canada), Elana Wolff (Canada), Bill Caughlan (Canada), Dimitar Anakiev (Slovenia), Neal Leadbeater (Scotland), Robert Lavett Smith (USA), Simon Perchik (USA), Michael J. Vaughn (USA), Esther Cameron (USA), Michael Zack (USA), Richard Luftig (USA), Luis Benitez (Argentina), and Coral Hull (Australia).

He serves as an elder in a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Sardis, BC. For part of 2015, his wife and he served together as pioneers (full-time ministers). Hobbies include longboarding, searching for haiku moments, singing and playing guitar, studying mathematics, and hybrid biking.