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Honour Specialist Geography AQ (Queen’s, Summer 2023, Online)

June 26, 2023 to August 11, 2023

  • Category: AQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Canadian and World Studies
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), Senior (grades 11-12)

Welcome to Honour Specialist Geography. You are ready to look at Geography from the point of view of teaching and learning strategies and leadership in curriculum and in your school. We won’t be focusing extensively on the development of specific subject-area knowledge as we do in the Intermediate and Senior courses. The overall aim of this course is to help prepare you to take on additional leadership responsibilities, related to Geography education, in your school. These responsibilities may involve teaching and being a leader in the Senior (Grades 11/12) Geography courses. It might include you taking on the role of Department Head for a variety of subjects including Geography or serving as the lead teacher for Geography in a department where the Head does not necessarily have a teaching background in Geography.

Candidates will explore leadership issues in various ways including independent reading and reflection. Candidates will work with colleagues in the class 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:

  • Geographic Literacy
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geography and the Work Place: Real World Connections
  • Leadership in Geography Curriculum Implementation
  • Learning as an evolutional process
  • Multiple intelligences
  • Effective Leadership
  • Partnerships and community collaboration
  • Integrated long-range department plan.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ This  course runs June 26 – August 11, 2017. Please visit website for additional information and registration.