July 3, 2023 to July 24, 2023
- Category: AQ, Online
- Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
- Topic: Special Education/Exceptionalities
- Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), JK-SK, Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)
- This Additional Qualification course is for those with an interest or background in special education and a desire to extend their knowledge. The course looks at the social, emotional, and environmental factors contributing to student behaviour and growth. Candidates will explore program design, implementation, and assessment. You will develop strategies to promote positive learning experiences for students with behavioural needs. You will add to your repertoire of skills/resources to help you guide and support prosocial skills.The undergirding of the course is based on the following understandings:
- behaviour is purposeful and serves a function
- behaviour and environment affect each other
- behaviour is predictable and manageable based on principles of applied behaviour analysis
- understanding the theories of human behaviour promotes self-management
Key Course Tenets include:
- instructional strategies and curriculum adaptations that promote self-esteem, autonomy, and self-regulation, and well-being
- conditions that promote a positive, safe, inclusive, and healthy school culture and climate
- how to incorporate community-building strategies and effective classroom management
- designing positive behaviour support plans for whole-school, classroom, or individual students
- using proactive, preventative, and positive approaches to manage students’ behaviour
- collecting and analyzing data
- desired outcomes, inappropriate behaviours, and appropriate replacement behaviours
- discover ways to advocate for students, parents, and teachers
- explore the broader role of the teacher working with students with behavioural challenges
Overall candidates will explore:
- The guiding concepts for pedagogy,
- Ministry of Education curriculum and district school board policies and guidelines,
- The theoretical foundations of the topics as they impact teaching and learning,
- Program design and implementation,
- Learning environments and instructional strategies conducive to the intellectual, social, emotional, physical, linguistic, cultural, spiritual, and moral development of the student,
- Reflecting and Documenting learning,
- Effective communication, engagement, and collaboration amongst all stakeholders.
- Organizer: York Catholic District School Board
- Cost: $650.00. See website for details.
- Location: Online
- Website: http://www.ycdsb.ca/aq/
- Contact: Dr. Pat Bucci, Additional Qualifications Program Officer
- Email: [email protected]