CONT492: Green Industries Grades 9 and 10

Course Schedule

Course Description

In this course you will explore the five sectors of green industries—agriculture, horticulture, floristry, landscaping, and forestry. With universal design for learning in mind, you’ll examine the curriculum to plan and create resources that can be implemented in your green industries teaching practice. You’ll consider green industry career pathways while learning fundamental concepts and skills. Technology and advancements in green industry production will be considered with an emphasis on safety and skill development. You will also explore the principles of environmental sustainability and current global and local challenges.

What You Will Learn and Do

In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to

• acquire a foundational understanding of the five main sectors of green industries: agriculture, horticulture, floristry, forestry, and landscaping
• develop an awareness of environmental and societal issues related to green industry activities
• link curriculum with skill development to better understand green industry career pathways
• reflect on instructional and assessment strategies that address equity, diversity, and inclusiveness
• create an instructional resource portfolio
• reflect on instructional design, differentiated instruction, and authentic assessments that promote a deep understanding of the curriculum and are based on universal design for learning practices
• plan learning experiences that develop safe and healthy working practices
• apply plant and animal classification and the factors affecting their growth and care to design procedures and applications for their production

Application Requirements

1) OCT MEMBERSHIP

We will use the OCT number you provide during online registration to confirm you are an OCT member.

2) WORK EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION

• Educators with existing technological education qualifications do not need to provide additional documentation.
• Educators without technological education qualifications need:
  • a Certificate of Qualification and Registration
  • five years of work experience, including business or industrial experience, or a combined total of five years’ post-secondary education and work experience, including:
    • at least two years’ business or industrial work experience, at least four months of which were continuous, and post-secondary education acceptable to the OCT consisting of:
      • an apprenticeship program acceptable to the OCT, and…
      • work experience demonstrating competency based on an assessment of advanced skills and knowledge, related to a technological education subject listed in Schedule B of the regulation.
  • *Experience teaching Green Industries Grades 9/10 is accepted as part of the five-year requirement at a ratio of two years experience to one year of the required total e.g., four years teaching Green Industries Grades 9/10 is equal to two years of the required five years experience.

• Eligible work experience must use skills and knowledge related to the subject and may include business or industrial experience in the following areas:
  • Arborist
  • Farming
  • Fish hatchery
  • Floristry/gardening/botany
  • Forestry
  • Greenhouse
  • Landscaping & design
  • Sawmill
  • Surveying
  • Veterinarian
  • Use of GPS equipment
  • Interfacing (connecting electronics to the computer and controlling it from software, input and output, such as switches and LED lights)

*One year of work experience can be interpreted as 1,700 hours of work experience.

**If you were self-employed, you must submit an affidavit, a business license, proof of income and a letter from a major supplier/customer to confirm years of work experience.

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.