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Honour Specialist Visual Arts AQ (Queen’s, Spring 2024, Online)

April 8, 2024 to June 7, 2024

  • Category: AQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Arts
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)

The underlying purpose of the Additional Qualification course Honour Specialist Visual Arts is to focus on curriculum leadership. The course addresses contexts and theories underpinning the study of Visual Arts. Pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and evaluation, technology, child and adolescent development related to program planning and implementation are addressed. Candidates will explore leadership issues in various ways including independent reading and reflection. Candidates will work with colleagues in the class and participate in projects including a course culminating activity which is designed to synthesize learning from the course for application to teaching practice. The course is designed to promote strategies that support students’ conceptual development and enduring understandings.

This leadership course has been developed for teachers who already have a deep level of learning about subject content and pedagogy gained from practical teaching experience, professional reading and previous course work.

Topics in this course include:
– Theories of learning, multiple intelligences and transmediation
– Review of scholarly writing
– Contemporary art – practices and issues
– The scope and sequence of curriculum expectations
– Assessment and evaluation in Visual Art education
– Effective leadership and decision making
– Designing inspiring units

Please visit website for additional information and registration.