David Telles-Langdon
David Telles-Langdon is a Canadian academic living in Winnipeg.
Marriages and family
Telles-Langdon has one child from a previous marriage:
- Dory Telles-Langdon (born circa 1992)
In about 1997, he remarried, to Shar Telles-Langdon. He has two children with her:
- Sara Michele Telles-Langdon (born 11 December 1998)
- Neill Michael Telles-Langdon (born 27 June 2000), named for Neill Currie, her great-uncle and academic mentor.
Career
Telles-Langdon is Associate Professor Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Health, at University of Winnipeg.
My research interests encompass a variety of areas related to the impact of coaching, and coach education on youth sports experiences as well as competency-based education, a popular approach to professional preparation that refers to the systematic incorporation of practice-based assessment and evaluation. I served on the Advisory Panel on Healthy Children and Youth to Canada’s Federal Minister of Health and on the Advisory Panel on Children’s Fitness Tax Credit to the Federal Minister of Finance.
— David Telles-Langdon, autobiography at "theconversation.com" [1]
Education
2011 Western University, PhD Educational Studies