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This Green Industries Additional Qualification course will offer the participant a true hands-on learning experience to help to inspire new practices in your own classrooms. Professional practice, curriculum planning, lesson plans covering all 5 sectors of the Green Industries umbrella: Landscaping, Horticulture, Agriculture, Forestry and Floristry. The complexity and diversity of this subject area requires proficiency in a wide variety of skills ranging from calculating slope to creating floral displays!

Feedback of various performance based activities will provide the focus for the development of learning modules and instructional materials to be used in your classrooms.

Get ready to get dirty! Get ready to sow and grow! Get ready to explore the biology, the chemistry, the artistry, the culinary, the cultural and the economic areas of Green Industries!

Applicants to this ABQ course must be OCT certified teachers in good standing with formal technical education or proof of competence and skilled wage-earning experience in the area of study. All inquiries about experience in a specific field are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Prerequisites

• Be a member in good standing with the OCT
• One Technological area listed on your OCT Certificate

If you do not have Technological Education on your OCT certificate, you must submit work experience letters and meet one of the following options:

• 5 years of full-time related wage-earning experience OR
• 3 years of full-time related wage-earning experience after successful completion of a related 2 year diploma program OR
• 2 years of full-time related wage-earning experience after successful completion of related 3 or 4 year degree program

Note: Related work experience must be proof of use of skills and knowledge related to the technological education subject for entry and may include business or industrial experience. One year of full-time work experience can be interpreted as 1,700 hours of work experience. If you are self-employed you must submit a sworn affidavit, a business license and proof of income. Related Work Experience may include:

• Arborist
• Farming
• Fish hatchery
• Floristry/gardening/botany
• Forestry
• Greenhouse
• Landscaping & design
• Agribusiness
• Agriculture
• Horticulture

• Organizer: York University
• Cost: AQ Course Tuition: $685, ABQ Course Tuition: $735, Honour Specialist: $750
• Location: Online
• Website: http://edu.yorku.ca/profdev/
• Contact: Office of Professional Learning
• Phone: 416 736 5003
• Fax: 416 736 5023
• Email: [email protected]