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Programming Description

In this course, you’ll deepen your practice as a cooperative education teacher by examining how programs are designed, implemented, and improved. Building on prior learning, you’ll analyze your own context through Ontario curriculum, policy, and research-informed practice to identify strengths, address gaps, and strengthen program quality, student learning, and pathways. You will use a range of evidence, including student experiences, stakeholder feedback, and assessment data to support informed and purposeful decisions.

Equity, inclusion, and meaningful access are central to the course. You’ll explore how systemic barriers affect participation in experiential learning and consider strategies that support diverse students, identities, and pathways. Engaging with experiential learning theory, current research, and emerging workplace trends, you’ll develop practical tools that culminate in a Cooperative Education Program Evaluation and Leadership Action Plan to support your professional growth and leadership in experiential learning.

Learner Outcomes

• Examine Cooperative Education programs using Ontario curriculum, policy, and research-informed criteria.

• Analyze program implementation in school and board contexts to identify strengths, gaps, and improvement priorities.

• Assess equity, accessibility, and inclusion outcomes in experiential learning and propose strategies to reduce systemic barriers.

• Evaluate how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives and reconciliation commitments are meaningfully enacted in experiential learning contexts.

• Apply advanced experiential learning theories to extend and refine Cooperative Education program delivery.

• Extend the application of assessment and evaluation practices by using evidence and data to strengthen student learning and program effectiveness.

• Evaluate labour market, community, and pathway trends to enhance program relevance and responsiveness.

• Develop strategic partnership improvement approaches that strengthen student pathways and community learning opportunities.

• Apply leadership and change practices to support continuous improvement in Cooperative Education.

• Reflect on professional learning, leadership identity and ethical responsibilities in experiential learning contexts.