Teaching English Language Learners, Part 3 Specialist

Course Code: DF18EN31

The Teaching English Language Learners Specialist Additional Qualification Course builds on the knowledge and skills you have already acquired in Part 2. You will use an inquiry-based learning model as a framework for developing a comprehensive understanding of the role of the English as a Second Language/English Literacy Development (ESL and ELD) teacher-leader within both elementary and secondary schools and school boards/districts.

This course will consolidate the strategies you have acquired for teaching students from diverse backgrounds and representing a range of abilities, backgrounds, and needs. Focused on equity and inclusion, the course will prepare you as a specialist for specialists for leadership in second-language teaching, one who can provide leadership to your colleagues by reviewing and school-wide ESL/ELD programs; facilitating program implementation; evaluating and placing students; and, developing mastery of wide advocacy skills to support all members of the learning community.

Prerequisites

  • Be a member in good standing with the OCT
  • Part 2 completed
  • Minimum TWO years certified teaching experience by the first day of the course, subsequent to certification including ONE year in English as a Second Language

Documents Required

  • Signed Supervisory Officer's Form by course end date confirming teaching experience
Session Dates
Start Date: Sep 26, 2018
End Date: Jan 23, 2019
In Class: Wednesdays: (6:00pm - 9:30 pm) September 26, 2018 - January 23, 2019 (excluding December 19, 26, 2018 & January 2, 2019); PLUS 47.5 hrs. online; PLUS 25 hrs independent assignment.

Location
Langstaff Secondary School (map)
106 Garden Ave Richmond Hill ON L4C 6M1 (Hwy. 7 & Yonge)

Instructors
Choules, David G