Aboriginal Teacher Education (ATE)
This program track is especially suited to Aboriginal students (Status, non-Status or Métis) who are interested in Aboriginal education. It may be of particular interest to mature students and those with experience in Aboriginal education. It features courses with Aboriginal-specific content, as well as practice teaching placements in First Nations schools. There are two ATE delivery options:- ATE Campus-based (full-time, fall/winter)
- ATE Community-based (part-time)
Refer to the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program website for further details about this program track.
Admission
Concurrent Education candidates are eligible to apply to the ATE campus-based program track in the year immediately preceding their final BEd year. Interested applicants should refer to the above link for details outlining the required supplemental documents and deadlines. The deadline for submitting program track supplemental documents is the same as Consecutive Education program track applicants. Concurrent Education candidates do not apply through OUAC for the program track, but rather they submit supplemental materials directly to the Education Registrar's Office. Concurrent Education candidates will use their Queen's student number in place of the OUAC application number on all supplemental materials.
ATE has an admission policy which incorporates the following special features:
a candidates may complete some prerequisites to admission as exit requirements rather than entrance requirements;
b applicants of Aboriginal ancestry who hold a secondary school diploma, or equivalent, are eligible for admission to the Primary-Junior program option leading to the Diploma in Education (community-based option only);
c ATE candidates may be granted prerequisite equivalencies for skills such as fluency or functionality in an Aboriginal language;
d affirmative action is employed in the provision that candidates for the DipEd must be of Aboriginal ancestry, and candidates for the BEd will ordinarily be of Aboriginal ancestry;
e Aboriginal community representatives are participants in the application screening process in recommending candidates to the program through letters of community support.
Awarding of Degree/Diploma
Upon completion, candidates holding a previous university degree receive the Bachelor of Education degree and the Certificate of Qualification as a teacher. Candidates of Aboriginal ancestry who hold a secondary school diploma, or equivalent, are eligible to receive the Diploma in Education and the Certificate of Qualification, allowing them to teach in the Primary and Junior divisions.
Holders of the Diploma in Education who submit to the Education Registrar proof of having been granted an acceptable degree, will be awarded a Bachelor of Education. The degree considered for the awarding of a BEd degree must have no transfer credit that was counted toward the program requirements for the DipEd.