Our work as English educators seems increasingly complex in a digital world where students engage with computers, video games, text messaging, television, magazines and movies among other multimedia and where reading print literature and writing essays are just two of many choices for creating meaning. Meanwhile, politicians, media and the public decry the level of …
Welcome to Honour Specialist Geography. You are ready to look at Geography from the point of view of teaching and learning strategies and leadership in curriculum and in your school. We won’t be focusing extensively on the development of specific subject-area knowledge as we do in the Intermediate and Senior courses. The overall aim of …
The underlying purpose of the Additional Qualification course Honour Specialist Health and Physical Education is to focus on curriculum leadership. The course addresses contexts and theories underpinning the study of Health and Physical Education. Pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and evaluation, technology, child and adolescent development related to program planning and implementation are addressed. Candidates will explore …
Welcome to our journey through time. Never has history played a greater role on the world stage, although Herodotus might debate this observation. If we are the memory bearers for our society, then we have a challenging duty. Neil Postman remarks in Teaching as a Conserving Activity (1979) that every teacher must be a history …
Welcome to the Honours Specialist in Mathematics! This course signals an important step in your professional growth and in your career. And it is an opportune time to become a Specialist! Never before has mathematics education in Ontario required more leaders – leaders strong in mathematics, capable in leadership skills and passionate about our profession …
