TEACHING

Post Secondary Teaching


Courses taught

2018 Kindergarten Part 1, Part 2, and Specialist combined Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 3, (Blended Model), York University (Fall term)

2018 Emergent Curriculum in Full-Day Kindergarten: A 6 module Certificate Program, “Environments that support learning interactions,” Ontario Reggio Association (Summer term)2017 Kindergarten Part 1, Part 2, and Specialist combined Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 3, (Blended Model), York University (Summer term) 

2017 Kindergarten Part 1, Part 2, and Specialist combined Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 1 and Part 3, (Blended Model), York University (Spring term)

2017 Kindergarten Part 1, Part 2, and Specialist combined Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, (Blended Model), York University (Winter term)

2016 Kindergarten Part 1, Part 2, and Specialist combined Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 1 and Part 3, (Blended Model), York University (Fall term)

2015 Kindergarten Part 1 and Part 2 combined Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 3, (Blended Model), York University (Spring term)

2014 Emergent Curriculum in Full-Day Kindergarten: A 6 module Certificate Program, “Environments that support learning interactions,” York University (Summer term)

2014 Kindergarten Part 1, Part 2, and Specialist combined Additional

Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 1, York University (Summer term)

2014 Kindergarten Specialist Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 3, York University (Spring term)

2014 Kindergarten Part 2 Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 2, York University (Winter term)

2013 Kindergarten Part 1 Additional Qualification Course and Kindergarten Course Certificate for ECE’s Part 1, York University (Fall term) 

Course/Curriculum Development
Kindergarten Part 1 re-wrote course for accreditation with OCT and added detailed version to the York University moodle (2017)

Kindergarten Part 3 re-wrote course for accreditation with OCT and added detailed version to the York University moodle (2017)

Kindergarten Part Specialist re-wrote course for accreditation with OCT and added detailed version to the York University moodle (2017)

Moodle editing of Kindergarten AQ courses

Primary Education Additional Qualification Course Guideline Development/Revisions, Ontario College of Teachers (2013)

Review committee for The Ministry of Education’s English Language Learner’s Continuum (2012)

Reviewed new Full-Day Early Learning-Kindergarten Program draft document for The Ministry of Education Full-Day Kindergarten focus group, Toronto, Ontario (2010)

Review committee Corwin Press Breaking the Bystander Cycle (2009-2010) 

Guest Lectures
2015 Kindergarten AQ. My classroom transformation. OISE, Toronto, Ontario

2013 EDUC 5725. Inquiry and the Arts: Learning for All Children. York University, Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Isabel Killoran

2012 Reflective Practice. My classroom transformation. York University, Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Carol Anne Wien

2012 Kindergarten AQ. The Inquiry Process: Considering Documentation and Arts Integration. ETFO, Thornhill, Ontario

2011 Reading AQ. Assessment in Kindergarten. YRDSB, Richmond Hill, Ontario

2011 EDUC 5546. Pedagogical Documentation. York University, Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Carol Anne Wien

2008-2010 Special Education. AQ The teacher inquiry process. York University, Richmond Hill, Ontario

Similar Courses I Could Teach 

(previously taken at York University)

Undergraduate
Child Development

Inquiries into Learning

Integration of the Arts

Language and Literacy in the P/J Division

Language and Literacy in the Intermediate Division

Graduate
Educating Young Children

The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education

Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood Education

Play, Language and Learning

Emergent Literacy

Family Literacy

Full Inclusion

Oral Language and Discourse in the Classroom

Digital Literacies and Social Media

Proposed New Courses 

Learning environments for young children: A global perspective

Inquiry-based learning in the early years

Social media as twenty-first century documentation

Infant and toddler learning: Experiences from birth through to preschool