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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 student literacy, often focusing the blame on and expecting solutions from English teaching.

This Honour Specialist English course examines some of these critical issues while building on your professional experience as an English teacher and developing strategies you may find useful in a leadership position. Candidates will work with colleagues 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:

• Complex issues and reform initiatives in the teaching of English
• Recent research in English education
• Information and communication technologies
• Strategies for reading and writing
• Literary theories and learning theories
• Assessment practices
• Exceptional students in English education
• Ideas for reshaping high school English
• Leadership strategies.

Please visit website for additional information and registration.

• Organizer: Queen's University
• Cost: $745.00. See website for details.
• Location: Online
• Website: http://www.coursesforteachers.ca/index.html
• Contact: Continuing Teacher Education
• Phone: (613) 533-2387
• Fax: (613) 533-6702
• Email: [email protected]