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Green Industries, Grades 9 and 10

Course Code: VU25GIJ

Availability: Registration opens on Apr 01, 2025

Get ready to get dirty! Get ready to sow and grow! Get ready to explore the biology, the chemistry, the artistry, the culinary, the cultural and the economic areas of Green Industries!

This Green Industries, Grades 9 and 10 ABQ course will offer the participant a true hands-on learning experience to help to inspire new practices in your own classrooms. Professional practice, curriculum planning, lesson plans covering all 5 sectors of the Green Industries umbrella: Landscaping, Horticulture, Agriculture, Forestry and Floristry. The complexity and diversity of this subject area requires proficiency in a wide variety of skills ranging from calculating slope to creating floral displays!

Feedback of various performance based activities will provide the focus for the development of learning modules and instructional materials to be used in your classrooms.

Valuable virtual sessions led by instructors with sector and classroom expertise:

  • Collaborate: join discussions, collect resources, discuss strategies and gain confidence.
  • Create: develop connections and build your learning network of like-minded peers.
  • Build: essential skills to plan and teach engaging courses of your own.

Prerequisites:

A Certificate of Qualification and Registration with a Technological Education Qualification.

Educators without technological education qualifications require:

  • a Certificate of Qualification and Registration
  • an Intermediate division qualification
  • five years’ work experience, including business or industrial experience, or a combined total of five years’ related post-secondary education and work experience, including:
    • at least two years’ business or industrial work experience, at least four months of which were continuous, and related post-secondary education acceptable to the College consisting of:
    • an apprenticeship program acceptable to the College, and…
    • work experience demonstrating competency based on an assessment of advanced skills and knowledge

Documents Required:

  • Official transcript(s) sent directly to the Professional Learning Office from the granting institution before course start date
  • Work Experience Letter(s): previous employer(s) confirming related wage-earning industry experience attesting to the length of employment, start and end dates and the nature of your employment (job description).

Notes:

  • Eligible work experience must use skills and knowledge related to the subject and may include business or industrial experience
  • Self-employed candidates must provide a sworn affidavit with a business license and proof of income. 
  • Related Work Experience may include:

    • Arborist
    • Farming
    • Fish hatchery
    • Floristry/gardening/botany
    • Forestry
    • Greenhouse
    • Landscaping & design
    • Agribusiness
    • Agriculture
    • Horticulture
    Session Dates
    Start Date: Jul 03, 2025
    End Date: Aug 01, 2025
    Online: July 3, 2025 to August 1, 2025.

    Mandatory synchronous sessions: July 3, 4 and 7 - 11, 2025 inclusive (Monday to Friday). Be available between 8:30am - 4:30 pm. Meeting times and duration of the sessions are set by the instructor. All coursework must be completed by August 1, 2025

    This 125 hour course consists of 100 hours of interactive coursework and 25 hours of independent learning. Regular and relevant candidate participation is a requirement. In addition to the synchronous sessions, expect to be online every weekday during a Summer course to complete assignments and collaborate in discussion forums. All deadlines will be communicated by the Instructor.


    Format / Location
    Virtual Blended

    Price
    $755.00


    Availability: Registration opens on Apr 01, 2025

    Course listings are accurate as of Mar. 28 08:00 AM.