CONT954: Teaching Biology in Grades 11 and 12

Course Schedule

Course Description

Are you interested in taking on the exciting task of teaching BC biology? This course will prepare you to take on this inspiring role. While exploring Life Science 11 and Anatomy and Physiology 12 curricular documents, you’ll develop a personalized methodology that is diverse and learner-focused and seeks to demonstrate biology from multiple perspectives. You’ll reflect on your own culture and perspective and that of your local community and examine how they affect your practice. You’ll consider methods to indigenize your biology curriculum and discover ways to assess and report on student learning.  

You’ll work individually and collaboratively throughout the course to culminate your learning by developing a personal philosophy for teaching biology that you’ll apply to a unit of study you design. This framework for planning will prepare you for future biology unit planning and instruction.

What You Will Learn and Do

In this course you’ll have the opportunity to

• diversify your instruction through an equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accessible (EDIA) lens
• explore pedagogies that facilitate teaching biology from multiple perspectives
• critically examine BC biology curricular documents for implicit, explicit, and null curriculum and use this to plan a framework for units of study in Life Science 11 and Anatomy and Physiology 12
• create learner-focused activities
• explore formative assessment practices to inform your practice and allow students to self-assess
• evaluate and apply summative assessment practices 
• develop a personal philosophy for your approach to teaching biology and apply it to a unit plan you design

Application Requirements

Courses and Post-Graduate Certificates are approved by TQS for Category Upgrade. If you would like these courses to be used towards Category Upgrading, you must have a valid BC Teacher Certificate.

ECEs, EAs, and other education professionals are welcome to take the courses without Certification.

Course Materials

Accommodations

Applicants who require accommodations for a specific learning need (e.g., learning disability) within their AQ/ABQ course, should click here for further information and support.

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Refund Schedule

If you drop a course:

1. by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee.
2. after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee.

For more about our refund policies, visit our Fees & Refunds page.