Post-Graduate Certificates

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Our Programs Are Made for BC Teachers

Our course packages are shaped around BC Ministry of Education curricula and taught by experienced BC teachers. That means your professional learning experience at Queen’s will be directly applicable to the challenges you face in your BC classroom.

Approved by the BC Teacher Qualification Service

Our certificate programs for BC teachers consist of five full-credit (6.0 non-degree credit-units per course) post-graduate courses in education. Each successfully completed course is recorded on a Queen’s University transcript. Candidates who successfully complete the program will receive a post-graduate certificate from the Faculty of Education at Queen's.

The BC Teacher Qualification Service recognizes these Queen’s certificate programs as one-year post-graduate integrated programs in education. Completion of these course packages may qualify BC-certified teachers for a teaching category upgrade within the BC provincial framework.

Candidates from BC who complete a Post-Graduate Certificate and receive a TQS category upgrade and wish to receive advanced standing into one of our graduate programs will be required to take three additional elective courses. TQS Regulation 5.04 states: “Where the content of one part of a program overlaps the content of a second program, the common portion shall not be counted twice in assigning a teacher’s category.” For more information regarding the TQS regulation, please refer to this TQS Policy document.

Gain Advanced Standing in our Graduate Programs

Queen’s University Faculty of Education grants students who complete a Post-Graduate Certificate advanced standing in our Graduate Diploma and Professional Master of Education.

More information about our graduate programs can be found on the Faculty of Education website or by contacting us at edonline@queensu.ca.

Online and Interactive

Queen’s Faculty of Education has been a leading provider of online professional development courses for teachers for more than 15 years. Our success is based on the overwhelmingly positive response of Ontario teachers to online professional development.

We recognize that dynamic online learning experience require meaningful interactions with instructors and other course candidates. At Queen’s, you will learn online with up to 15 education professionals from across British Columbia, sharing ideas and feedback. Readings, assignments, discussions, and a rich array of teaching resources are all available online to participants.