Students today are highly immersed in communications media well before entering the senior level courses in the Communications Technology classroom. They bring with them digital experiences and technical skills of all sorts and levels. Because of this, more than ever, our role as teachers in Comm. Tech has evolved to that of facilitator or guide …
The Cooperative Education Part 1 course is an introduction to school-based experiential programs for teachers with limited experience in this mode of delivery. Practical aspects of cooperative education that are introduced in this course are the implementation of school-based experiential learning programs, the location of student work placements, and assisting school administration with experiential education …
The underlying purpose of the Additional Qualification course Cooperative Education Part II is to extend the knowledge learned in Part I and to serve as an introduction to leadership and the design of experiential learning within a secondary school. Candidates taking this course will view cooperative education as an exciting educational process designed to promote …
The Specialist course in Cooperative Education Specialist is designed for professionals who wish to demonstrate educational leadership through a position of added responsibility in Experiential Education within their school or school board. Cooperative education teachers work in partnership with subject-specific teachers, the business community and others at the local, regional and provincial levels to create …
“Environmental education is education about the environment, for the environment and in the environment. It promotes an understanding of the positive and negative consequences, both intended and unintended, of the reciprocal relationships between human-created and earth’s grand natural systems.” (Roberta Bondar et al., Shaping our Schools, Shaping our Future: Environmental Education in Ontario Schools, 2007) The …
