Special Topics courses are offered occasionally to enhance the graduate program in specific areas. A list of upcoming courses are listed below:
SUMMER 2013
ED 6108: Documentation of Learning
(Offered web-based and mandatory conference attendance July - August)
Web based course with mandatory attendance at Learn2Learn Conference at Rothesay Netherwood School in Saint John, NB - July 14-16 followed by 5 weeks online. Students also must register for Learn2Learn conference. Contact Carol Ann Hatheway with questions (hatheway@unb.ca)
This course will focus on the documentation of learning for students and teachers and will follow the work of Mara Krechevsky following her presentation at the required Learn2Learn conference, taking place in Rothesay on July 14, 15 and 16. The course will examine ways to gain access to student understanding and strategies that support teachers as they investigate their own instruction. This blended course will follow the face to face conference days with five weeks of online course work.
ED 6109: The Politics of Social Media
(Offered face to face in July over 9 contact days - July 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 23 and 25 from 8 am - 12 pm)
This course will engage students in a critically-informed examination of past and current social media practices. It will address questions such as: What various forms of communication constitute social media? Who has access to it and how does this affect its impact? In what ways are the tenuous boundaries separating traditional media and social media transforming/blending/overlapping/invading? Why? Is social media as empowering as its advocates, critics, and educators claim? What role can/does/should social media have in the classroom?
ED 6109: Teaching the History of Canada's World Wars
Deadline for application to the Gregg Centre is March 15 and more information such as tour dates are at the link below:
http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/centres/gregg/tours/cleghorn/index.html
This course introduces educators to the history of Canada in two world wars and the potential for using the subject as a vehicle to foster historical thinking and historical consciousness. The course involves a study tour to some of the most important Canadian battlefields and memorials in Belgium and France. The course considers the 1914-1945 period from a variety of perspectives, including the moral, social, political and economic dimensions in addition to the central military problems. A key focus is considering innovative ways to approach these themes and topics in history classrooms.
ED 6136: Issues in Counselling Psychology II
(Tuesday's and Thursday's 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm face to face May 2 - June 18)
In this course, we will examine and experience aspects of wellness and self-care for mental health professionals. Although the principles may also apply to clients, the primary focus will be wellness and self-care in you, the practitioner. The course involves critical review of existing psychological literature on these related phenomena and learning strategies and approaches for wellness promotion and engagement in self-care. Major components of the course include (a) experiencing a specific self-care practice (mindfulness-based stress reduction) and (b) developing a wellness plan for your own future psychotherapy practice. ED 6071 or permission of the instructor is a pre-requisite for the course.
FALL 2013
ED 6108: Educational Leadership: Preparation, Mentorship and Induction of Beginning Teachers
(Face to face course on Wednesdays from 5 pm -8 pm)
Will count as a required course in the MED Educational Administration program or an elective in most programs.
This course will help educators increase their knowledge about the challenges and issues surrounding the preparation, mentorship and induction of pre-service and in-service beginning teachers. The course would begin with an examination of current research on teacher development. Students will learn about recent and current reviews of teacher preparation programs going on across Canada. The course will also help students increase their understanding of teacher induction programs and practices as presented in the research literature, as well as innovative teacher induction and mentorship programs offered in New Brunswick, Canada and Internationally.
ED 6109: Creativity in Education
(Face to face on Thursdays 5 - 8)
This course examines the meaning of creativity and its educational dimensions. Its relevance in teaching and learning will be discussed from both a theoretical and experiential perspective. Students will explore strategies for enhancing creativity through visual and multimodal literacies.
WINTER 2014
ED 6109: Writing to Learn in the Content Areas
(Online)
This course is aimed at developing educators’ pedagogical knowledge and practice in writing instruction across all curricular content areas at the middle and high school levels. The course will focus on understanding how and in what ways writing facilitates deeper learning in any subject; identifying curricular writing opportunities across subject areas; identifying ways for students to collect, analyze, synthesize, and communicate information in writing; and learning how to teach students to draft, compose, and revise a variety of writing for a range of audiences, purposes, and situations. Educators will be better equipped to integrate writing instruction into everyday classroom practice and establish a classroom writing community that emphasizes in-depth subject area learning.
