CONT590: Honour Specialist English
This Honour Specialist English course is an opportunity for you to experience leading pedagogies and learning research. Learning goals direct your personal and professional development in a way that meets your unique instructional, assessment, and leadership needs. Approaches and learning experiences promote the principles of equity and inclusion, to build a collaborative community that finds enrichment in diversity.
A strong foundation in the understanding and implementation of English policy documents enables you and your students to develop the most essential skills for 21st-century learning, including criticality, collaboration, reflection, problem solving, transfer of knowledge, and innovation. Tasks provide examples of evidence-based practices and activities that educators can immediately implement in their own teaching and leadership practice. The course culminates with the design of an innovative project or collaborative inquiry that celebrates ongoing professional development, educational reform, a community of collaboration, and the work educators do to maximize achievement and well-being.
Learning Outcomes
What You Will Learn and Do
In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to
- reflect on the Ontario curriculum and related Ministry of Education resources in the context of professional practice
- describe and apply strategies, technology, and research that promote accessibility and inclusivity for all learners
- evaluate and apply current pedagogy and practices in your professional practice
- analyze practices and strategies that support learner mental health and well-being and safe learning environments
- develop knowledge of and apply policies, practices, and strategies that support anti-oppression; antiracism; and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit histories, perspectives, and knowledge systems
- develop instructional strategies that foster critical thinking, inquiry, critical literacy, the use of media, and digital literacy
- analyze and design assessment and evaluation practices that align with Ontario policies
- develop instructional leadership in the implementation of the above learning
Assessments
Module 1
English Curriculum
Module 2
Assessment and Evaluation
Progress Update 1
Module 3
Pedagogy and Program Planning
Module 4
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Progress Update 2
Module 5
Indigenous Knowledge
Module 6
Critical Literacy and Transferable Skills
Progress Update 3
Module 7
Course Culminating Task
Final Report