79-494 - ABQ Communications Technology, Grades 9 and 10
Course Description
This course is offered two times a year (Winter and Fall Semesters)
This course addresses student development, program planning and delivery issues, the school environment, and other issues related to teaching and learning in Technological Education programs.
Course Outline
Topics include:
- understanding theories of student development and learning
- exploring fundamental technological concepts
- incorporating a broad-based pedagogical approach that embeds problem-solving
- integrating community, print electronic and collegial resources that link to the Ontario curriculum
- engaging instructional strategies to create real-world contexts
- integrating differentiated instruction and universal design in planning and implementation
- using a range of assessment and evaluation strategies
- implementing safety strategies and environmental standards
- collaborating with parents/guardians
- understanding and demonstrating compliance of workplace health and safety legislation and standards
Notes
OSAP Funding for AQ Courses
This AQ course is on the list of eligible courses for OSAP funding. Students must enroll in courses prior to the semester deadline date. If you are eligible, OSAP will reimburse funds after the semester drop date and will do so directly to you.
For questions regarding Micro-credential funding, please contact Student Awards and Financial Aid at OSAPMC@uwindsor.ca
For additional details, visit:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/micro-credentials-ontarios-postsecondary-schools and
https://www.uwindsor.ca/studentawards/osapmc
Prerequisites
- General Certificate of Qualification and Registration
- an entry for the same technological education subject in grade 9 and 10 and in grade 11 and 12
If a candidate’s area of study in the program of professional education was NOT in a technological education subject, the candidate must meet the following requirements:
- five years of work experience, including business or industrial experience, or a combination of postsecondary education and work experience that totals five years and includes:
- at least two years of work experience, including business or industrial experience, at least four months of which were continuous, and
- postsecondary education acceptable to the College consisting of:
- a program leading to an acceptable post-secondary degree, or a certificate, diploma or advanced diploma granted under the Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002, or a predecessor act, or under the Private Career Colleges Act, 2005, or a predecessor act, or by another institution acceptable to the College, OR
- an apprenticeship program acceptable to the College, and
- in the work experience referred to above, demonstrated competency based on an assessment of advanced skills and knowledge related to a technological education subject listed in Schedule B
For the purposes of fulfilling the work experience requirements outlined in (a) and (b) above, up to one year of work experience completed as part of a work placement or co-operative work placement in a postsecondary education program may be counted if the placement was a required element of the education program and the work experience occurred after the applicant had completed at least 50 percent of the program.
Information for educators who do not have tech qualifications
To submit documents complete Technological Education ABQ Application.
