Courses

A Meta-Relational Approach to AI

This seven-week course is designed for participants who are engaging—or seeking to engage—with generative AI in ways that challenge modernity’s extractive programming patterns in both humans and machines. Participants will be encouraged to explore what it might mean to engage with AI in ways that are aligned with planetary and intergenerational responsibility.

AI Unleashed: Revolutionizing Science Teaching

This cutting-edge workshop teaches middle and secondary school science teachers how to integrate AI into their classrooms through creative, hands-on projects. Participants will learn to use AI tools to create engaging assessments and innovative assignments like climate action inquiries, electricity songs, plate tectonic video games, and astronomy collages. The course empowers educators to seamlessly blend AI technology with science education to foster creativity and deepen student understanding.

Adult Learning and Development

The content of this course reflects the large body of knowledge in the area of lifespan development. We’ll examine adult development, learning and change, and relate these areas to andragogy.

American Sign Language I

An introduction to language used by the Deaf community in North America. Covers basic vocabulary, essentials of grammar and fundamental structures for everyday interaction. The course also provides insight into the Deaf community and Deaf culture.

American Sign Language II

A continuation of ASL 100A with an emphasis on increasing vocabulary, skills applying grammatical features, facial expression and receptive and expressive signing. Prerequisite: ASL 100A.

American Sign Language III

A continuation of ASL 100B, providing essentials of fundamental structures for everyday interaction. Develops appropriate grammatical features and facial grammar including non-manual signals in addition to receptive and expressive signing skills.

American Sign Language IV

A continuation of ASL 200A. Develops vocabulary and appropriate signing registers as well as skills for role-shifting and point of view when narrating in sign language, including the use of three-dimensional space and placement.

An Overview of Hybrid Learning

Hybrid workplaces are here to stay and many learning professionals are excited by the opportunities this new environment creates for learner engagement.

Assessment and Evaluation in Adult Learning

This course focuses on the place of assessment and evaluation in the context of curriculum design/development/delivery and adult learning.

Backwards Design and Clustered Curricular Competencies

In this workshop, you'll learn to cluster curricular competencies and apply backwards design, simplifying lesson planning, assessment and implementation in your practice.

Beyond Residential Schools: Talking About the Sixties Scoop in the Classroom

This workshop will introduce participants to this time in history where they will learn about the intergenerational effects of these practices, and approaches to support learners. Participants will also be introduced to resources and activities for the K-12 classrooms.

Braiding Indigenous and Western Science

Through a series of four engaging sessions, the Braiding Indigenous and Western Science workshop will provide teachers seeking new approaches to curriculum in Indigenous ways of knowing.

Delivering Learning Experiences in a Hybrid Workplace

The options for delivering learning in a hybrid workplace could seem endless, so how do you choose? This self-paced course will help you to decide which delivery method mix fits best with each element of your learning experience.

Depth Education Design

This advanced course is for individuals who have completed at least one of the Facing Human Wrongs courses and wish to learn about how to design depth education experiences in their own contexts.

Designing Learning Experiences in a Hybrid Workplace

Designing learning for a hybrid workplace is new and exciting to many learning professionals—there is a lot to learn in this quickly-developing area. In this self-paced course, you will have the opportunity to engage with numerous effective design approaches.

Using Backward Design to Support Intentional Literacy for All Learners

This course teaches educators how to use Backward Design methodology to create inclusive literacy instruction that supports all students, with a particular focus on struggling readers in upper elementary grades. Participants will explore practical strategies for building classrooms where students can work at different levels while achieving similar literacy goals. The session features research-based tools and decodable workbooks that make literacy instruction more intentional and purposeful. Teachers will leave with a solid understanding of how to incorporate Backward Design into their lesson planning and receive free literacy resources to support student success.

E-Learning: Design and Development

If you want to learn how to design and build engaging e-learning courses, experiences and activities, then this course is for you.

Evidence-Aligned Literacy Instruction and Intervention

Evidence-Aligned Reading Instruction: What We Know About Teaching Kids to Read

Grounded in a well-established model of reading through a Response to Intervention (RTI) lens, this session will explore evidence-aligned practices to support all students' reading skills.

Facilitating Adult Learning

In this course, we’ll explore the complexity of the teaching/learning process in the education of adults and identify and define the assumptions, values and beliefs that underlie your decisions as a facilitator.

Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability

This six-week online intensive course was designed to guide you through an exploration of the ongoing systemic violence we perpetuate towards one another and the planet we are part of.

Facing Human Wrongs: Leading in the Metacrisis

This is a six-week online course designed to help participants develop leadership skills to navigate complex global challenges. It provides practical tools and guidance to challenge harmful cultural narratives and build trust. The course encourages participants to approach leadership as a flexible, holistic practice suited to uncertain times.

Facing Human Wrongs: Unsettling Wellness

This course is an online, experiential course with an emphasis on mental health, psychology, and various healing practices. The course explores the complicity of care work in systemic violence, unsustainability, and colonialism, while offering decolonial approaches to wellness that emphasize planetary well-being over individual wellness.

Foundations of Adult Education

Examine the history of adult education from both the international and local perspectives, and analyze the underlying philosophical, sociological, historical and political foundations of adult education. Then, apply your insights to contemporary adult education issues.

Foundations of Recreation and Leisure

This course is an introduction to the nature and scope of recreation, a consideration of past influences and future trends, the role of the recreational professional.

From Learning to Performance: Mastering Transfer

Understand the factors that influence learning transfer and gain practical tools to design, support, and sustain performance improvement in the workplace.

Indigenous Literature: A Doorway to Decolonization

This session explores Indigenous literature for decolonization, featuring history, authors and hands-on group work to decolonize classrooms using various genres.

Inquiry and the Power of Professional Learning Networks

An exploration of inquiry as a means of improving practice, and deepening student learning.

Instructional Design in Adult Education

How do people learn? What is an effective instructional model? Instructional design is a complex process with its own history, body of literature, practitioners and research community.

Leadership Methods for Recreation and Health Education

This course is a theoretical and practical introduction to leadership, teaching, communication and decision making skills in recreation/leisure services, sport and fitness.

Multidisciplinary Foundations of Physical Activity

In this course we’ll examine the relationship of physical activity to education, kinesiology, athletics, health, recreation and leisure. We’ll also discuss the contributions made by the sciences of physiology, motor learning and biomechanics.

Once Upon A Time: Indigenous Histories and Stories

This workshop will expose participants to ways of working with aspects pertaining to the history of Indigenous people through story.

Organization and Procedures for Instruction of English to Second Language Learners

The examination of current models for the organization and instruction of EAL students at the elementary and secondary levels. The integration of language and content instruction within the regular classroom is emphasized.

Planning Program Evaluation

This course focuses on the application of program evaluation theory and principles with a focus on application in an adult education setting. Students will learn how to build a practical program evaluation, to understand the real-life barriers that face evaluation projects and the strategies that can be used to overcome these barriers.

Principles of Response to Intervention and Systematic Assessment

A survey of principles and research on systematic literacy assessment including universal screening, to facilitate responsive instruction and/or intervention within a multi-tiered system of support. The examination of various measures and assessment systems that can be used to make reliable and data informed decisions about appropriate interventions for students at-risk for difficulties.

Principles of Teaching English Language Learning

A survey of principles and theories for, and the teaching of, English to second language learners. We’ll examine the curriculum and methodology for use with English language learners in the elementary and secondary schools.

Program Planning in Adult Education

In this course, you will identify and examine the planning procedures and strategies that result in efficient and effective programs for adults learning in a wide variety of social and institutional settings. You’ll also develop basic skills or enhance and redefine your current skill levels.

Strategies and Tools for Teaching Adults Online

This course focuses on the practical aspects of teaching adults online. You’ll learn how to apply adult teaching and learning principles to make your courses more meaningful and memorable.

Strategies for Teaching the New Curriculum: Promoting Self-Regulated Learning in the Classroom

This workshop introduces a suite of evidence-based self-regulated learning tools and practices to support teachers and students to strategically conquer academic challenges both during and beyond pandemic schooling. The workshop will be co-facilitated by teachers and researchers with a focus on the power of student-teacher-research partnerships for promoting self-regulated learning.

Supporting Learners Experiencing Difficulties with Literacy I

The focus of this course is on assessment and instructional issues, practices and strategies for students who experience difficulties with reading and writing.

Supporting Learners Experiencing Difficulties with Literacy II

This course continues the exploration of assessment and instructional practices for elementary, middle and high school students who experience difficulties with reading and writing.

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

This TEFL course will provide you with the skills and confidence you need to teach with authority and find employment with a respected school. It will also prepare you to navigate the demands of a changing marketplace and the stresses of living and working in a new country.

Testify: Indigenous Law and the Arts

The exhibition Testify is a celebration of Indigenous Laws as expressed through art. The TRC Calls to Action identify the need to change the way we think about law, and to challenge the absence of Indigenous laws in the landscape.

Train Less, Deliver Results: Building Job Aids

Loaded with training demands? It’s easy to overlook the goal - not delivery, but improved performance. Job aids are an inexpensive, effective route to accomplishing results on the job.

Training Needs Assessment

This course investigates how to identify needs related to learning and improvement. Through discussions and assignments, participants will develop a practical approach to successfully conducting a needs assessment for the purpose of creating valid, job-related courses and curricula.

Trauma Informed Schools: The What and How of Trauma Informed Practice

In this workshop, you’ll learn how our brains process trauma and how you can best respond to disclosures of traumatic events.

Words for the Soul: Indigenous Literature in the Classroom

This workshop will expose participants to diverse literary genres by Indigenous authors presented in various formats and will propose ways in which such works can be used in the classroom to develop awareness of Indigenous ways of being and knowing.

Designs for Learning in French Immersion

Assessment and evaluation within the context of French Immersion's language and content methodology. Emphasis is on planning, analysis and evaluation.

Children’s and Young Adult Literature in French

Speech Art in French