This course critically explores various aspects of school safety and social acceptance by delving into some of the major themes that reflect school culture: bullying and victimization, cultural awareness, gender expression, and special needs issues and biases. You will be exploring these topics in a broader sense as they pertain to teaching and learning, and …
This Senior Biology Additional Basic Qualifications course concentrates on the Senior Biology courses of The Ontario Science Curriculum, Grade 11 and 12. The emphasis in this course is on the development of student-centred teaching and learning that support students’ conceptual development and enduring understandings. This course explores the development of adolescents, program planning and delivery …
This Senior Chemistry Additional Basic Qualifications course concentrates on the Senior Chemistry courses of The Ontario Science Curriculum, Grade 11 and 12. The emphasis in this course is on the development of student-centred teaching and learning that support students’ conceptual development and enduring understandings. This course was formed around the questions “what a scientifically-literate student …
Teaching English seems to become ever more complex in a world where our students engage with a wide variety of information and communication technologies such as video games, text messaging, magazines, newspapers and news programs, and the internet. We wonder how we can direct their interest toward reading increasingly complex texts from cultures and contexts …
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 …
