This course will support teachers new to Ontario. A wide range of topics will be explored allowing candidates to effectively teach in Ontario from Kindergarten to Grade 12. The OCT’s Standards for the Teaching Profession & Standards of Practice will frame the learning, using an anti-racism, anti-oppression, and anti-colonial stance.
The focus of this course will be on school safety and social acceptance and on how staff and students can create and maintain safe, inclusive, and accepting learning environments. Effective strategies related to caring for the emotional resilience of students and staff will be an important component of the course.
Addressing Anti-Black Racism to Change Pedagogy and Practice, Part 1 seeks to challenge candidates’ current understanding of pedagogy and practice by centering Black/Africentric ways of knowing and amplifying the lived experiences of Black students, families, and community members. Through collaborative activities and deep reflective practices, this course employs Critical Race Theory, concepts of Blackness and …
OECTA’s Anti-Black Racism course, is aimed at fostering inclusive, respectful classrooms rooted in the Catholic values of dignity and equality. This course offers practical tools to ensure every student can thrive, emphasizing unity, fairness, and the moral duty to uphold justice. Module 1 – The Elephant in the Room addresses truths that need to be …
Course Description Teaching LGBTQ course candidates will be on an educational journey through the complex struggles of gender and sexual/sexuality minorities (GSM) students. Educators will learn about queer history and queer theory, queer culture, critical pedagogy, and, most importantly, the challenge to meet our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, intersexual, queer, questioning, ally, pansexual and two-spirited youth in a safer, inclusive, evolving, and celebratory space. Candidates will collaborate, conduct inquiries, …
