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Teaching Subject Requirements (for all Concurrent Teacher Candidates)
Entrance into final year is contingent upon completion of each of the following items.  Candidates must complete the requirements for the year in which they entered the program.

a)  Teacher Candidates must select two teaching subjects (a subject taught in Ontario secondary schools).  Both teaching subjects must be offered at Queen’s Faculty of Education: Computer Studies, Dramatic Arts, English, French as a Second Language, Geography, History, Mathematics, Music – Instrumental (Queen’s only), Music – Vocal (Queen’s only), Science-Biology, Science-Chemistry, Science-Physics,  Visual Arts.

b)  Teacher Candidates must successfully complete 5 full-year courses (30 units at Queen's) in the first teaching subject (a subject taught in Ontario secondary schools).

c)  Teacher Candidates must successfully complete 4 full-year courses (24 units at Queen's) in the second teaching subject (a subject taught in Ontario secondary schools).

d)   No more than 1 full-year first-year course will be counted toward either the first or second teaching subject requirement.

e)  Teacher Candidates must have a B average in the courses that are being used to meet the teaching subject requirements.  That is, Teacher Candidates must have a B average in at least 5 full-year courses  for their first teaching subject, and must also have a B average in at least 4 full-year courses  for their second teaching subject.

f)  Each course taken in preparation of a teaching subject may be used only once towards either teaching subject.  “Double counting” is not acceptable.

g)  Requirements for Courses Related to Teaching Subjects:
Often Teacher Candidates would like to take courses from a department other than the one that reflects their teaching subject.  These types of courses may be “related” to the teaching subject.  For example, Teacher Candidates who select History as a teaching subject may want to take a course from the Classics Department – CLST (Queen’s) / AHCL (Queen’s-Trent) (that is not listed in the following chart) rather than the Department of History – HIST to count toward their teaching subject.

i. no more than one full-year course will be accepted from an outside department that reflects the teaching subject (this is called a “related” course for the teaching subject); AND
ii. if a Teacher Candidate wishes to request that a course be counted as related to the teaching subject and the course is not listed in the following chart, the Teacher Candidate must request approval PRIOR to taking the course (see section h).

h)  Approval of Any Course for Teaching Subject Requirements:
If Teacher Candidates would like to take a course outside the academic department which reflects the teaching subject AND the course does not appear in the teaching subject requirements for Intermediate-Senior, which outlines previously approved related courses; OR the Teacher Candidate would like to take a course at an institution other than the one they are attending:

i. the Teacher Candidate must send a written request to their respective Concurrent Education office with the course title, course code, and course description of that 'related' course for approval; AND
ii. this request must be approved by the Education Registrar PRIOR to taking the course in order to ensure that the course will count toward the required courses for that teaching subject; AND
iii. the Queen’s Faculty of Education Registrar makes the final decision whether or not a course meets the requirement for that teaching subject.  Teacher Candidates must have written confirmation PRIOR to taking the course.

Some secondary school subjects are not offered through Queen’s Faculty of Education (for example, business, family studies, Spanish, general science, guidance, and native studies).  For more information on curriculum and curriculum subjects, refer to the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum documents.  Secondary documents for grades 9-12 are found at: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/subjects.html; grades 7-8 are found in the elementary curriculum documents at:  http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/grades.html.



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