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Reading, Part 1 – Adolescent Focus Grades 7-10 AQ (York, Winter 2022, Online)

January 18, 2022 to April 1, 2022

  • Category: AQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: Language Arts, Literacy
  • Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10)

Reading Part 1 – Adolescent Focus: Grades 7-10 Additional Qualification Course equips teachers to meet the reading comprehension and application needs of in the Intermediate Division. Specifically, it enhances the teacher-candidate’s repertoire for instructing, modeling, encouraging, and supporting learners as they engage in curriculum-based reading tasks and respond to the increasing literacy demands of life in a complex, mediated society. To this end, Reading Part 1 focuses, for example, on approaches to and strategies for comprehension and application such as close reading, analytic reading, text-dependent questioning/inquiry, critical appreciation of perspective and detection of bias in text.

Prerequisites

  • An undergraduate degree acceptable to the Ontario College of Teachers
  • Be a member in good standing with the OCT

Documents Required

  • NONE
  • Organizer: York University
  • Cost: AQ Course Tuition: $685, ABQ Course Tuition: $735, Honour Specialist: $750
  • Location: Online
  • Website: http://edu.yorku.ca/profdev/
  • Contact: Office of Professional Learning
  • Phone: 416-736-5003
  • Fax: 416-736-5023
  • Email: [email protected]