Queen’s and Queen’s-Trent hold information sessions for fourth year candidates to explain how the final year unfolds and to review entrance requirements and optional program tracks. In the fourth year (and fifth year - if required) Teacher Candidates complete a questionnaire, indicating their intent to enter into their final Education year in the fall.
Teacher Candidates must meet the requirements for the Concurrent Education program for the year they enrolled in the Concurrent Education Program. Teacher Candidates in the Concurrent Education program are expected to complete both Education and Arts, Science, Computing, or Music degrees within six years. Teacher Candidates planning to enter final year Education at Queen’s in the fall must:
1. *complete all prerequisite courses by the second Friday in May;
2. graduate with a 20 full-year course Honours degree (BAH, BCompH, BScH, or *BMus) in the spring PRIOR to attending final year Education; AND
3. must have a minimum of a B average on their best 10 full-year university courses.
4. complete a half-year course in Developmental Psychology; OR
a full-year course in Introductory Psychology;
*Review division specific final year Education prerequisite courses under Programs of Study
Under the Memorandum of Agreement between Trent, Queen's and the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Queen’s-Trent Concurrent Teacher Candidates are NOT eligible to be accepted into Trent’s Consecutive Education Program. Queen’s-Trent Concurrent Teacher Candidates can only proceed on to final year of the Bachelor of Education degree at Queen’s University in Kingston.