CONT789: Intermediate History

Course Schedule

Course Description

Enhance your ability to teach history to students in the Intermediate Division by deepening your understanding of curriculum, pedagogy, and inclusive practices. In this course, you’ll explore historical thinking concepts and inquiry-based learning, allowing you to create engaging lessons that reflect diverse voices and lived experiences, including those of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives. You’ll learn how to foster equity and inclusion in your classroom through trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive approaches. You’ll also learn to assess student learning using strategies that honour individual strengths and needs.

This course is grounded in real-life teaching, encouraging reflection, collaboration, and practical application. You’ll work with Ontario’s curriculum and policies and leave the course with tools, strategies, and inspiration to support your students and your professional growth in the history classroom.

What You Will Learn and Do

In this course you’ll have the opportunity to

• analyze Ontario’s History curriculum to identify key themes, expectations, and opportunities for diverse representation
• apply historical thinking concepts and inquiry-based strategies to design engaging, student-centred lessons
• evaluate classroom resources and historical narratives for bias, accuracy, and inclusion of underrepresented voices, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives
• create inclusive and trauma-informed learning environments that support student identity, well-being, and critical thinking
• develop assessment and evaluation strategies that reflect students’ strengths, interests, and varied learning needs
• examine connections between past and present to help students understand history's relevance to current social and civic issues
• reflect on your professional practice and synthesize new learning to enhance your role as a history educator

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 History or the equivalent of 2.0 full-year undergraduate/graduate courses if you already hold another intermediate 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.

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.