CONT789: Intermediate History
Enhance your ability to teach history to students in the Intermediate Division by deepening your understanding of curriculum, pedagogy, and inclusive practices. In this course, you’ll explore historical thinking concepts and inquiry-based learning, allowing you to create engaging lessons that reflect diverse voices and lived experiences, including those of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives. You’ll learn how to foster equity and inclusion in your classroom through trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive approaches. You’ll also learn to assess student learning using strategies that honour individual strengths and needs.
This course is grounded in real-life teaching, encouraging reflection, collaboration, and practical application. You’ll work with Ontario’s curriculum and policies and leave the course with tools, strategies, and inspiration to support your students and your professional growth in the history classroom.
Learning Outcomes
What You Will Learn and Do
In this course you’ll have the opportunity to
- analyze Ontario’s History curriculum to identify key themes, expectations, and opportunities for diverse representation
- apply historical thinking concepts and inquiry-based strategies to design engaging, student-centred lessons
- evaluate classroom resources and historical narratives for bias, accuracy, and inclusion of underrepresented voices, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives
- create inclusive and trauma-informed learning environments that support student identity, well-being, and critical thinking
- develop assessment and evaluation strategies that reflect students’ strengths, interests, and varied learning needs
- examine connections between past and present to help students understand history's relevance to current social and civic issues
- reflect on your professional practice and synthesize new learning to enhance your role as a history educator
Assessments
Module 1
Understanding Today’s History Learners
Module 2
Historical Thinking in Action in the Digital Age
Progress Update 1
Module 3
History for All
Module 4
Reimagining Assessment, Differentiation, and Student Engagement
Progress Update 2
Module 5
Canadian History: Foundations and Indigenous Perspectives
Module 6
History Education for Civic Engagement and Social Justice
Progress Update 3
Module 7
Bringing It All Together
Final Report