Courses

Action-Oriented Education in FSL

This workshop aims to present the foundations of the action-oriented approach in order to help teachers (re)orient their pedagogy towards “a competence perspective” (see CEFR, 2018).

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.

Anti-oppressive practices in French teaching in BC

This workshop will provide participants with tools for teaching French through an anti-oppressive lens. Via an inquiry-based activity, we will demonstrate the utility of simple concepts drawn from linguistics to drive student engagement and student appreciation for the connection between language education and social justice.

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.

Assessment in a French Immersion Classroom Part 1

Let's explore assessment and share updates from the BC Ministry of Education. We will also explore the Reporting Order to share updates on reporting for BC teachers grades K-12.

Assessment in a French Immersion Classroom Part 2

Gradebooks, reporting out, rubrics, and more!! How to design effective tools for todays' classrooms. Let's explore triangulation of assessment using proficiency scales, observations, conversations, self and peer assessment, and more.

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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.

Being and Learning Outdoors Viewed Through the Core Competencies

The workshop focuses on being outdoors as a learning option. The idea is to encourage educators to view being outdoors as a viable option for which planning and assessment are made easier.

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.

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.

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.

Educational Resources for French Immersion Teachers

This workshop aims to help immersion teachers improve their pedagogy and French immersion teaching skills from the comfort of home! Find out about new resources available in the ACPI Education Zone, CASLT Learning Center and other national associations. Learn to navigate the goldmines of professional development tools.

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.

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Facing Human Wrongs 2.0: 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.

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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.

First Peoples Principles of Learning in French Immersion Context

Exploring the reciprocal relationship between Indigenous knowledge/worldviews and Western educational perspectives. ‘How can Indigenous perspectives be applied to the teaching and learning of the Frim/FSL classroom?

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.

FPPL: Bring the Poster With You!

The workshop being offered focuses on encouraging educators to be mindful of the FPPL when planning and organizing projects outdoors. It is about developing key understandings regarding the principles of learning and recognizing land as teacher.

Grammar and Social Justice in BC: for the Teaching of a Queer Approach to Grammatical Rules

This interactive workshop will provide participants with tools for teaching speaking and writing that makes visible - and audible - the full spectrum of SOGI identities. We will model the difference between SOGI-inclusive and SOGI-expressive French teaching and we will present the benefits of the latter for the school community.

Improving Performance through Learning Transfer

One of the biggest challenges facing today’s training professionals is ensuring that what’s learned in training is applied to the job.

Indigenization of French Courses and Greater Well-being in BC

The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with tools for teaching that integrates knowledge of Indigenous language (Southern Michif, Chinook wawa), communication technology (Wampum), and Indigenous notions of collective rather than individualist literacy.

Indigenous Creative Practice

Indigenous Creative Practice supports music and all educators who are on the journey of embedding Indigenous ways of knowing and being in their classrooms in alignment with the new BC music curriculum, the educational Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and UNDRIP. Practical and experiential strategies are explored including, but not limited to, drumming, singing, story sharing, and exploring/making through Indigenous creative practices.

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.

Introduction to Depth Education

This advanced course is for individuals who have completed "Facing Human Wrongs 2.0: Climate, Complexity, and Relational Accountability" and wish to learn about how to design depth education experiences in their professional contexts.

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.

Part 1 - What is Reading and How to Teach it in a Fun and Effective Way?

Becoming a good reader is not simply related to reading more. Isabelle Payne will introduce you to a collection of strategies and activities for learning and teaching to read in French, by practicing all parts of the reading process.

Part 2 - What is Reading and How to Teach it in a Fun and Effective Way?

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 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.

Resources and Activities within a BC French Immersion Setting

Do you feel like you don’t have enough time to teach and assess what is required of the BC Ministry of Education? Project-based learning can help you cover the curriculum and maximize your time. In this workshop, you will be introduced to teaching activities and inspiring resources to motivate your students and help you save time.

Shxun’utun Sul’hween/Footprints of the Ancestors: Pathways to Reconciliation

Please see the Pathways to Reconciliation program page for full details about this offering.

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 Classroom Management

Would you like to be better organized and offer effective follow-up on learning progress to your students and their parents? Do you want to help your students continue their learning process while also helping those who need more time and attention? This workshop will offer simple solutions to allow everyone to learn at their own pace and remain motivated throughout the year.

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.

The Role of Interactive Technology in Teaching

This workshop aims to explore the role of interactive technology in teaching and learning in an ever-changing world. Participants will be able to deepen their knowledge and/or skills of current technological tools through practice and through different activities.

Thematic Literacy Circles – Interdisciplinary Literacy

This workshop will provide guidance for participants to start current literary circles as well as lists of books appropriate for students' reading levels and their cognitive levels. Cet atelier donnera des pistes pour les participants pour démarrer les cercles littéraires en cours ainsi que des listes de livres appropriés pour les niveaux de lecture des élèves et leurs niveaux cognitifs.

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.