CONT605: Senior Chemistry

Course Schedule

Course Description

In the Senior Chemistry AQ, you’ll work as part of a professional learning community to plan chemistry lessons linked to the Ontario Senior Chemistry curriculum. You’ll develop a greater understanding of the Senior Chemistry expectations, connect expectations to activities, and develop a variety of assessment and evaluation tools and instructional strategies, with a focus on student-centred learning and inquiry. Working both independently and collegially, you’ll reflect on historical perspectives, myths and misconceptions, and you’ll create and share authentic opportunities to incorporate chemistry concepts from historical and social justice perspectives into the classroom. Through the course you’ll document your learning by building a digital portfolio of resources for use in your Senior Chemistry practice. And you’ll finish the course having created another useful resource: a unit of study for a Grade 12 chemistry course.

What You Will Learn and Do

In this course you’ll have the opportunity to

• plan and prepare summative and culminating tasks that assess overall expectations of the Ontario Chemistry Curriculum, using the backward design process  
• develop lesson plans using a Universal Design for Learning approach to meet the strengths, needs and interests of all learners  
• create learning materials using a variety of instructional strategies to improve students’ critical thinking and problem solving in the Chemistry classroom  
• construct scaffolded lessons using a variety of formats to encourage student voice and autonomy
• collaboratively engage in inquiry and discussion to connect key concepts in chemistry to real life examples 
• interpret the historical, societal, and environmental role of chemistry and identify potential myths and biases   
• critically reflect on and refine subject and pedagogical knowledge, skills, and experience to improve professional practice 
• identify key features of a student-centred learning community and the role of stakeholders in this process  
• co-create practical activities, resources, lessons and assessment and evaluation tools within a professional learning community

Application Requirements

1. OCT MEMBERSHIP We will use the OCT number you provide during online registration to confirm you are an OCT member with an undergraduate degree.
2. YOUR UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE UNIVERSITY TRANSCRIPT(S)*

Your transcript(s) must show: The equivalent of 3.0 full-year undergraduate/graduate courses in Chemistry/Biochemistry or the equivalent of 2.0 full-year undergraduate/graduate courses if you already hold another senior qualification.

*If you completed a Queen's undergrad (at any time), or a B.Ed., Honour Specialist, or an Intermediate or Senior ABQ course with us within the last 4 years you are not required to resend your transcripts.

Please email a copy of your unofficial undergraduate transcript to cedmail@queensu.ca

Course Materials

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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 by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee
• If you drop a course 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.