Cathrine Froese Klassen (B.A. Hons., B.Ed., M.A.) is a former Faculty member at the University of Winnipeg, now retired. Her teaching assignment featured Gifted Education; English Language Arts–Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment; and Learning Theory.
She began her career as a high-school teacher. Besides holding key leadership roles in provincial curriculum committees and professional associations in the Gifted Education, German, and English areas, she was English Department Head, Advanced Placement Coordinator, and Coordinator for Gifted and Talented Programming and Critical Thinking in her school division in Winnipeg.
From 2007 to 2011, she held the position of Executive Administrator of The World Council for Gifted and Talented Children at its Headquarters at The University of Winnipeg. She has taught courses in Gifted Education; German Language; German Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment; and Learning Theory at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg. Her publications include two volumes of conference proceedings, as editor, and numerous articles in the field of gifted education, as well as in science education, particularly on the use of stories in teaching science.
In 2011, she was invited to join a five-country, Europe-based research team as co-investigator, sponsored by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Union. This project consisted of a web-based, teacher-training system utilizing historically based stories in science.