Master Teacher Program Fall 2012 Course Schedule

NEW! 15-CREDIT GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE (GC) GRADUATE DIPLOMA (DE)—MASTER OF EDUCATION (MEd)

The new 15-CREDIT GRADUATE To obtain the Graduate Certificate, CERTIFICATE program comple- you must complete 9 core credits and ments the Graduate Diploma and the 6 optional credits. However, if you Master of Education in College are not planning to register for the Teaching. For more information see Graduate Certificate, you may take reverse or contact your college repre- any core or option course offered, up sentative. to a maximum of 9 credits in total, . after which you must register in a Program.

CORE COURSES = 9 Credits OPTION COURSES = 6 Credits

 College Teaching and Course  Inclusion: Issues, Challenges and Design (2cr) Solutions (1cr)  How Students Learn (2cr)  Lecturing to Enhance Learning  Instructional Strategies for (1cr) Active Learning (2cr)  Teaching with Technology (1cr)  Assessment as Learning (3cr)  Group Work to Team-Based Learning (1cr)  Additional 1 credit courses TBA

1 Master Teacher Program Fall 2012 Course Schedule

Graduate Certificate Courses Graduate Diploma Course CORE: (2 credits each) 8. DID-855 Constructing Knowledge in Your Discipline, 3 1. College Teaching and Course Design credits 2. How Students Learn 9. DVP-800 Planning and Preparing Your Teaching 3. Instructional Strategies for Active Portfolio, 1 credit Learning Prerequisites: College Teaching, Psychology of Learning, Instructional Strategies, Assessment as Learning OPTIONAL (1 credit each) 10. DVP-801 Presenting Your Teaching Portfolio, 1 credit 4. Inclusion: Issues, Challenges and Prerequisite: previous 29 credits in DE program Solutions Master Research Course 5. Lecturing to Enhance Learning 11. MEC-801 Exploring Research Strategies, 3 credits 6. Teaching with Technology Prerequisite: Understanding the Research Cycle 7. Group Work to Team-Based Learning

Graduate CERTIFICATE courses Graduate CERTIFICATE courses Graduate DIPLOMA courses MASTER of Education CORE -2 credit OPTIONAL -1 credit REQUIRED-1 & 3 credit REQUIRED course

1. College Teaching and 4. Inclusion: Issues, 8. Constructing Knowledge 11. Exploring Course Design Challenges and Solutions in Your Discipline Research Strategies 2cr 1cr 3cr DID-855 Location: Centennial College Location: Centennial College Location: TBD 3cr MEC-801 Fridays, 3:00-6:00pm Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm Fridays, 3:00-6:00pm Location: Marianopolis October 26, 2012 October 25, 2012 September 7, 21, 2012 College November 2, 9, 16, 30, 2012 November 1, 15, 22, 2012 October 12, 26, 2012 Fridays 3:00-6:00pm December 7, 14, 2012 November 9, 30, 2012 Aug. 24, 31, 2012 December 7, 2012 Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28 5. Lecturing to Enhance Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, 2. How Students Learn Learning Nov. 2, 9, 16, 23,30 2cr 1cr 9. Planning and Preparing Location: Location: Champlain College Your Teaching Portfolio Fridays, 3:00-6:00pm Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm 1cr DVP-800 October 26, 2012 October 18, 2012 Location and dates: TBD November 2, 9, 16, 30, 2012 November 8, 29, 2012 December 7, 14, 2012 December 6, 2012

10. Presenting Your 6. Teaching with Teaching Portfolio 3. Instructional Strategies Technology 1cr DVP-801 for Active Learning 1cr Location and dates: TBD 2cr Location: Champlain College Location: Champlain College Wednesdays 6:30-9:30pm Fridays, 3:00-6:00pm November 14, 21, 2012 October 26, 2012 December 5, 12, 2012 Registration Deadlines: November 2, 9, 16, 30, 2012 December 7, 14, 2012 Courses #1-7: Thursday, September 6, 2012 Courses #8-11: Friday, August 10, 2012 7. Group Work to Team- Based Learning 1cr To register, contact Location: Champlain College your local Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm PERFORMA October 23, 30, 2012 representative (RL) November 13, 20, 2012 See next page for some college contacts

2 IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU NEED TO READ Master Teacher Program BEFORE REGISTERING Fall 2012 Course Schedule

COURSE FORMAT IS BLENDED The New Master Teacher Program Some College Contacts  Face-to-face + VIA (only the partici- In a Nutshell pants from outside the re- Centennial College gion will use VIA online) VERSION OF THE PROGRAM FOR ALL NEW F 2012 Amir Shoham, 514 486-5533 ext. 280 and The program is now divided into three levels [email protected]  VIA online for all participants with optional courses available in the first level Champlain College-Lennoxville only. Students who wish to take courses at ran- Judith Beaudoin, 819 564-3666 ext. 112 [email protected] YOU WILL NEED: dom, not towards a Certificate, Diploma or Mas- ter Degree, may choose from courses available in Champlain College-St Lambert  High-speed Internet access Jim Sparks, 450 672-7360 ext. 324  Headset with mike the first level, up to a maximum of 9 credits. [email protected]  Webcam LEVEL 1: by successfully completing 15 credits (9 Patrizia Polifroni, 450 672-7360 ext. 244 [email protected] CORE + 6 OPTIONAL), students earn a Gradu- Champlain College-St Lawrence NOTES: ate Certificate in College Teaching. 418 656-6921  Each course has additional online, LEVEL 2: by successfully completing the next 15 asynchronous hours. compulsory credits, students will earn a Diploma Julie Mooney, 514 931-8731 ext. 1376  Registration is based on the needs of of College Teaching (D.E.). Total of 30 credits. [email protected] participants within the Consortium of Suzanne Prévost, 514 931-8731 ext. 1378 Anglophone Colleges LEVEL 3: by successfully completing the next 15 [email protected] credits, called the Research Component, students  The consortium of Anglophone Col- Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles leges reserves the right to cancel will earn a Master of Education in College Geneviève Langlois, 418 368-2201 ext. 1582 courses having insufficient registra- Teaching (M.Ed.). A total of 45 credits. [email protected] tion. Collège Gérald-Godin  Course dates are subject to change. Danielle Boulé, 514 626-2666 ext. 5224 PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE PROGRAM [email protected]  To withdraw a course registration Level 1: by successfully completing the first compulso- Heritage College without penalty, you must notify your ry 30 credits, students earned a Diploma of College college contact at least five (5) work- Lee Anne Johnston, 819 778-2270 ext. 1260 ing days prior to the first class date. Teaching (D.E.). ljohnston@-heritage.qc.ca Failure to do so will result in a grade Level 2: by successfully completing the next 15 com- of AB (Abandon) and payment of pulsory credits, students earned a Master of Education Susan Ajersch, 514 457-6610 ext. 5385 course fees will be applicable. in College Teaching. (M.Ed.). [email protected] Diane Wilson, 514 457-6610 ext. 5386 COSTS: [email protected]  A one-time University of Sherbrooke LaSalle College admission fee, due when registering. Claude Zananiri, 514 939-2006 ext. 4461 $70.00 [email protected]  The University of Sherbrooke will invoice you for the following fees Mark Stephen, 514 931-8792 ext. 549 that are subject to change without [email protected] notice: Cégep de Rimouski  Tuition fee per credit $90.43 Annie-Claude Prudhomme, 418 723-1880 [email protected]  Administration fee per Academic Cégep de Sept-Îles Year $30.00 Anik Boileau, 418 962-9848 ext. 236 [email protected]  MTP administration fee, payable to the host college and subject to Cégep de St Hyacinthe change $30.00 450 773-6800  Textbooks, if required, may be pur- Vanier College chased at the host college before Wilma Brown 514 744-7500 ext. 7020 classes begin. [email protected]

3 Master Teacher Program Fall 2012 Course Schedule

Course Title Brief Course Descriptions

1 College Teaching and Educational concepts, beliefs, values, practices, issues, philosophies and outcomes associated Course Design with learner-centered teaching are examined while designing, developing and evaluating a col- lege level course.

2 How Students Learn Participants examine and reflect on the cognitive nature of what is to be learned, how learning occurs, and the intellectual characteristics of the learner.

3 Instructional Strategies for The main objective of this course is to enable teachers to call upon instructional strategies to Active Learning suit particular classroom situations. Participants will design instructional strategies that foster active learning and further the reciprocal relationship between the teacher and the student.

4 Inclusion: Issues, Chal- Participants will gain an understanding of how to adapt their curriculum in order to integrate lenges and Solutions students with special needs into the college classroom. They will also examine the history of inclusion and how the idea has evolved into current local, national and international policies.

5 Lecturing to Enhance This course offers ideas for preparing both the content and the presentation of a lecture. It will Learning address delivering a lecture, evaluating a lecture and ways of using lecture time for more suc- cessful, challenging, and interesting ways of teaching large groups of students.

6 Teaching with Technology This course is the first in a series of courses designed to help teachers blend educational theory with digital tools and media creation. This introductory course will provide a pedagogical basis for using technology to promote student learning.

7 Group Work to Team- Participants will examine different ways teachers can use small groups as well as the instruc- Based Learning tional challenges this approach often presents. Principles and strategies for working with casual groups, cooperative groups, and team-based learning groups will be examined.

8 Constructing Knowledge The purpose of this course is to connect each teacher’s content knowledge with the theoretical in Your Discipline and practical knowledge about teaching and learning that has been acquired in the preceding courses in the program. Its primary purpose, therefore, is to allow for a detailed analysis and integration of principles, theories and assumptions about learning and instruction that underlie expert knowledge and competence in different disciplines.

9 Planning and Preparing This course is the first of two portfolio courses designed to help teachers in this program create Your Teaching Portfolio a teaching portfolio that reflects their own teaching development. The items chosen by the teacher for inclusion in the portfolio will represent what they teach, how they teach, and why they teach.

10 Presenting Your Teaching Participants will have an opportunity to complete their teaching portfolio and demonstrate their Portfolio: an Integrative ability to deal with the complexities of the teaching and learning process in the college class- Activity room.

11 Exploring Research Participants are encouraged to scrutinize scholarly articles in terms of methods used in data col- Strategies lection, tools used for analysis and modes of presentation. Basic concepts in statistics are intro- duced to better understand research studies published in educational journals and to enable those using quantitative data to use a statistical package, such as SPSS, to present, describe and analyze data they will be collecting.

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