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Senior English ABQ (Queen’s, Late Summer 2023, Online)

August 7, 2023 to September 29, 2023

  • Category: ABQ, Online
  • Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
  • Topic: English
  • Grades: Senior (grades 11-12)

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 outside of their own experience, or writing more deeply or in different modes, and how to teach them to be critical users of a wide range of media. Meanwhile, schooling becomes increasingly political as standardized testing abounds and members of the public worry about levels of student literacy and the accountability of teachers as well as the question, “Will our children be prepared for college or university?”

In the ABQ Senior English, we will consider English in light of current issues and trends with a view to responding meaningfully to our students and shaping fruitful directions for teaching.

Topics in this course include:
– Current research and initiatives in the teaching of English
– Information and communication technologies used in the teaching of English
– Responding to Literature and Literary theories
– Grammar: the Teaching Debate
– Teaching Oral Skills
– Enabling writing, options to the essay, and graphic novels
– Hypertext and hypermedia
– The opportunity to participate in a course culminating activity designed to synthesize your learning for application to teaching practice

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