History - Intermediate
History General - Intermediate ABQ - (blended)
EDAQ - 5220C
Winter 2010
Tuesdays January 12 - March 9, 2010 5:30 - 8:30 pm
Plus 2 Saturdays January 23 and February 27 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
In an age of accountability, when literacy and numeracy rule the day, history can be seen as a subject on the periphery of public education. When taught as just names, dates and a myriad of events of bygone days without inviting students to think about their learning, history can disengage even the most eager learner. Engaging the learner is the primary focus of this course by considering the most powerful means to teach history; history classes that encourage learners to do history, encourage critical thinking, historical consciousness, moral judgment, and to assess change and continuity.
History and Civics, by their very nature, lend themselves to critical inquiry. These courses have the greatest potential to engage students when their learning is grounded in meaningful and authentic assessment tasks that invite students to solve problems or meet a challenge. Students learn best about the past and the world around them, when they uncover the curriculum through an endeavor to meet rich critical challenges. Consequently, the primary focus for this course will be help potential history and civics teachers to understand the pedagogy of critical thinking and to build relevant and engaging: courses, units, lessons and assessment tasks around critical thinking and historical consciousness.
Successful candidates will be recommended to the Ontario College of Teachers for the Additional Basic Qualification for History Intermediate Division.
See OCT guidelines for more details about the course.
Prerequisite:
1. OCT Certificate of Qualification
2. An interest and background in history.
Please click here for the ONLINE APPLICATION
