David Karbashewski

Year: 2010-2011 – Province: Alberta

Certificate of Achievement Recipient

Western Canada High School
641 17th Avenue S.W.
Calgary AB T2S 0B5

Principal: Kim Hackman
School Tel.: 403-228-5363
School Fax: 403-777-7089
School Email: westernCanada@cbe.ab.ca
School Website: www.cbe.ab.ca/b816

Subjects and grades taught Physics 20 and 30 for grades 11 and 12

Teaching Approach

“Talk it up,” says David Karbashewski to his students, encouraging them to think through problems and find solutions for themselves. If he’s not coaching the swim team, or volunteering his time at a football game, Mr. Karbashewski is leading students in fundraising challenges, travelling with them to robotics competitions and encouraging and prepping them to participate in a panoply of physics competitions, challenges or exams.

Outstanding Achievements

• In the last 15 years, six of Mr. Karbashewski’s students have made the Canadian team for the World Physics Olympiad, traveling to all parts of the world to compete. His students also often place within the top ten in various other competitions and exams, like the Sir Isaac Newton Exam, the Physics Bowl Exam and the Canadian Association of Physics Exam.
• The University of Toronto was so impressed with the level of creative thinking demonstrated by students taught by Mr. Karbashewski, that they sent a representative to see why the physics program produced such outstanding students. The U of T then created a scholarship for their engineering faculty that only Western Canada High School students can apply for.
• As the learning leader for the science department, Mr. Karbashewski challenged his colleagues to place classroom notes online for student access and facilitated the use of a D2L program as a chat room for students, as well as for professional development.

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