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Guidance and Career Education, Specialist AQ (OECTA, Winter 2024, Online)

February 5, 2024 to April 19, 2024

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

The Additional Qualification Course: Guidance and Career Education Specialist fosters leadership, critical and collaborative inquiry and exploration of the dimensions associated with children and adolescent development from K- 12 and post-secondary destinations.

Beyond that, the course cultivates leadership in program planning, development, implementation strategies and frameworks related to Guidance and Career Education as well as critically exploring effective, collaborative transition planning to support student learning including marginalized, and those who learn differently. The course also fosters shared leadership in critically exploring, developing and implementing programs that respond to students’ lived experiences, development, strengths, interests and needs.

The assessment and evaluation strategies reflect effective, collaborative and inquiry-based practices.

This course is open to all elementary teachers or secondary teachers who have a basic qualification in general studies or technological studies. In addition teachers, must have taught two years, with at least one year in the field of Guidance and Career Education as well as Guidance and Career Education Part 2.