The Junior ABQ course provides teachers with qualifications to teach Grades 4-6. If you are an Intermediate/Senior teacher and would like to extend your teaching qualifications to the junior elementary grades, you must take a Junior Additional Basic course. This course will enable teachers to receive additional basic qualifications for the junior division. A variety …
Theories of child development and their application in the planning of individual and group learning experiences. Emphasis on developing skills and planning experiences necessary to assist junior grade children in the curricular areas of communications, environmental studies and the arts. See website for admission requirements and course materials.
This introductory course will allow participants to explore theoretical foundations of early childhood, child development, play-based learning environments, instructional pedagogy that supports the early learner, assessment practices that make children’s learning and thinking visible and the power of shared partnerships with families and other early year professionals. This course is aligned with the Full-Day Early Learning …
A focus on teaching kindergarten within the Ontario Early Learning Framework. Topics include: conceptions of childhood and current models for early childhood education; play-based learning, responsive pedagogies, and emergent curriculum; assessment practices; facilitating childrens transitions from learning in home, preschool, and child care settings to learning at school; and developing mutually supportive teacher/child, school/family, school/community, …
Building on knowledge, skills, and teaching strategies provided in Part 1, this course will emphasize program planning and evaluation of kindergarten programs. An advanced study of kindergarten and emergent curriculum and a review of formal and informal assessment techniques will be included. See website for information on admission requirements and course materials.
