CONT595: Honour Specialist Physics
CONT 595
Continuing Teacher Education - Ontario
3 Units
Online
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The Honour Specialist Physics AQ will challenge your perspectives on physics teaching and learning. You’ll reflect on your positionality and practice, develop leadership skills through the lens of a physics educator, and investigate innovation in teaching physics, and you’ll walk away from the course with ready-to-use resources for your class and new professional connections.
Learning Outcomes
What You Will Learn and Do
In this course you’ll have the opportunity to
- assess how your background and experiences influence your physics teaching practice
- demonstrate the reciprocity of knowledge through leadership and collaboration
- practice the roles and responsibilities of a leader in physics education
- develop an ethical and critical lens through which to teach and lead
- apply Indigenous ways of knowing and being to your practice in the physics classroom
- employ inquiry and innovation when teaching physics
- use best practices in assessment and evaluation
Assessments
Module 1
Introduction
Module 2
Leadership and Collaboration
Progress Update 1
Module 3
Roles and Responsibilities
Module 4
Developing an Ethical and Critical Lens
Progress Update 2
Module 5
Reflective Pedagogy
Module 6
Assessment and Evaluation
Progress Update 3
Module 7
Culminating Task
Final Report