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CTL7060H - Intermediate Teaching Subject - Drama

This course of study prepares future teachers to design and deliver contemporary dramatic arts instruction for Intermediate level (grades 7-10) learners. Teacher candidates will examine both the research on adolescent development and strategies for effective dramatic arts pedagogies. The course will also explore how teachers can promote student engagement and how to foster a positive, supportive classroom culture. Special attention will be given to such topics as role playing, improvisation, techniques for infusing drama in other disciplines, and the special role that the dramatic arts can play in examining issues of equity, inclusivity and diversity.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Prerequisites: Students must have three full-year university courses in Drama and Theatre Studies.
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7070H - Sustainability Education: Issues & Practice

The Sustainability course is designed to assist candidates in the Master of Teaching Program in implementing the Ontario curriculum for Environmental Education (MOE 2017) within their subject specializations, and, heeding the United Nations' repeated calls for action on sustainable development, to promote both critical and caring perspectives on the serious ecological and humanitarian challenges we face globally and locally.

The course will survey various aspects of the broad topic space: environmental sustainability education, place-based education, sustainable development goals, global citizenship education, and eco-justice. The course builds upon and compliments learning in the other foundations courses without repeating the content: CTL7074H-Issues in Educational Law, Policy and Ethics; CTL7073H-Indigenous Experiences of Racism and Settler Colonialism in Canada: An Introduction; and, CTL7009H-Anti-Discriminatory Education.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: Online, In Class, Hybrid

CTL7071H - Curriculum and Teaching in Visual Arts and Physical Education

As a part of the Curriculum & Instruction course, this module is designed to introduce you to strategies and approaches for teaching Visual Arts Education and Health & Physical Education (HPE) to Primary and/or Junior learners. This course is designed to help OISE MT students (re)discover the theory and practice of Art Education and HPE, as well as understand and apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for effective teaching and learning that meets the diverse needs of students. Over the course you will become more competent and confident in working with learning tools and resources in each of these areas of the curriculum; developing lesson themes and ideas; and devising questions and learning activities for students. You will become familiar with the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum policy documents: The Arts (2009), and Health & Physical Education (2010), core concepts and teaching techniques, methods for integrating Art Education and HPE with other disciplines, including social justice, environmental education and indigenous approaches to knowing. Current ways of thinking about and teaching Art Education and HPE may differ significantly from when beginning teachers were students; therefore one of the aims of the course is to introduce new ways of thinking about these disciplines and their role in contemporary approaches to teaching and learning.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7072H - Curriculum and Teaching in Social Studies and Indigenous Education

The Curriculum and Instruction in Social Studies and Aboriginal Education course explores the shared histories of Indigenous and settler relationships across Turtle Island and, while recognizing the US/Canadian divisions as colonial constructs, will focus more specifically on the Canadian context. This course provides a practical and conceptual introduction to the teaching of Social Studies (Grades 4-6), History and Geography (7-10) within the context of Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) understandings. This course consists of a series of seminars and workshops designed to emphasize the expectations, pedagogy, methodology and content integrating both Social studies and Aboriginal Studies in the junior/intermediate grades.

The course provides opportunities to develop practical understandings relating to instructional methods and skills through unit and lesson planning, including practical assessment strategies, in a variety of classroom contexts as well as the incorporation of Indigenous and Western knowledges and understandings. It seeks answers to questions of identity, meaning-making, complex issues concerning community and nation, past and present. It looks to bring local histories and traditional ecological knowledges- and to provide a template for understanding the complex interplay relating to constructions of identity (personal, local, and national) and sovereignty.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: Online, In Class, Hybrid

CTL7073H - Indigenous Experiences of Racism and Settler Colonialism in Canada: An Introduction

With a focus on teacher preparation, this course seeks to understand the experiences of Indigenous people in Canada with regard to racism and settler colonialism, focusing on implications for classroom-based, programmatic, and pedagogical practice and reform. Because schooling has a historical and contemporary role in facilitating racism and settler colonialism, especially through the creation of residential schools, this course encourages teachers to become familiar with the consequences of this ongoing history, and to learn strategies to rethink relationships between schools and Indigenous learners and communities.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: Online, In Class, Hybrid

CTL7074H - Issues in Educational Law, Policy and Ethics

As a required course in a professional program, there are both professional and academic rationales underpinning this course. Teachers and high schools are governed by a range of shifting and variably interpreted legal, policy and ethical mandates which have been produced in a range of historical, political and institutional contexts. One key aim of this course is to assure that teacher candidates are aware of their professional and legal rights and responsibilities, as defined by national and provincial legislation, local school board policy, and professional advisories. Another aim of the course is to explore ethical nuances and challenges in teaching while aiming to interpret and respond to relevant legislation that helps to define the teacher's professional role. Using academic research literature, policy documents, and case studies, the course blends theory with the consideration of practical in-school situations in order to enable teacher candidates to analyse policy, ethical and legal tensions in teaching. The course thus aims to rigorously explore teachers' professional contexts so as to inform their daily practice through thoughtful ethical reflection in light of legal and policy considerations.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7080H - Practice Teaching Year 1 (Part 1)

This first year course provides supervised experience in an area of fieldwork, under the direction of faculty and field personnel. Teacher candidates are placed in partnership schools in public and separate school systems and in other settings that use the Ontario curriculum. Teacher Candidates are under the joint supervision of a field teacher on site and an academic staff member at OISE. The teacher candidates will have one placement in each of their divisions. This course is normally open only to students in the Teaching program.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7081H - Practice Teaching Year 1 (Part 2)

This first year course provides supervised experience in an area of fieldwork, under the direction of faculty and field personnel. Teacher candidates are placed in partnership schools in public and separate school systems and in other settings that use the Ontario curriculum. Teacher Candidates are under the joint supervision of a field teacher on site and an academic staff member at OISE. The teacher candidates will have one placement in each of their divisions. This course is normally open only to students in the Teaching program.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Exclusions: CTL7004H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7082H - Practice Teaching Year 2 (Part 1)

This second year course provides supervised experience in an area of fieldwork, under the direction of faculty and field personnel. Teacher candidates are placed in partnership schools in public and separate school systems and in other settings that use the Ontario curriculum. Teacher Candidates are under the joint supervision of a field teacher on site and an academic staff member at OISE. The teacher candidates will have one placement in each of their divisions. This course is normally open only to students in the Teaching program.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7083H - Practice Teaching Year 2 (Part 2)

This second year course provides supervised experience in an area of fieldwork, under the direction of faculty and field personnel. Teacher candidates are placed in partnership schools in public and separate school systems and in other settings that use the Ontario curriculum. Teacher Candidates are under the joint supervision of a field teacher on site and an academic staff member at OISE. The teacher candidates will have one placement in each of their divisions. This course is normally open only to students in the Teaching program.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7084H - Issues in Numeracy

In this course, current issues related to mathematics instruction and their theoretical underpinnings will be explored. We will examine research related to this issues and how the impact they can have on classroom programming. Candidates will have an opportunity to discuss their personal beliefs and views about mathematics education as they bridge theory with practice. Instruction in this course will include lecture, written response, group activities, and group investigations.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.25
Prerequisites: CTL7002H
Exclusions: CTL7010H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: Online, In Class, Hybrid

CTL7085H - Issues in Literacy

In this course, current issues related to literacy instruction and their theoretical underpinnings will be explored. We will examine research related to this issues and how the impact they can have on classroom programming. Candidates will have an opportunity to discuss their personal beliefs and views about literacy education as they bridge theory with practice. Instruction in this course will include lecture, written response, group activities, and group investigations.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.25
Prerequisites: CTL7000H
Exclusions: CTL7010H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: Online, In Class, Hybrid

CTL7086H - Curriculum and Teaching in Music and Dance

This course develops an awareness of and practice in the arts as a means of personal development and as a learning technique. The philosophy and practice of Music and Dance in education will be explored. The possibilities of conceptual development and expansion of THE CREATIVE PROCESS through the art of Music and Dance with a particular focus on the cognitive, social, and artistic development of the child.

This course is designed to assist teachers in the Primary/Junior Division in the development, implementation and assessment/evaluation of Music and Dance focused learning experiences.

Candidates will explore music through singing, movement, musical games, playing instruments (recorder, percussion, djembes and boomwhackers) and developing their listening skills while at the same time creating, composing and improvising.

Current theories of arts in education will be incorporated as participants plan lessons, consider expectation(s) and implement assessment strategies as outlined in the Ministry documents. The use of Music and Dance as art as well as an INTEGRATIVE methodology for learning across the curriculum will provide a framework for the course.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.25
Exclusions: CTL7017H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7087H - Curriculum and Teaching in Drama and Dance

This course develops an awareness of and practice in the arts as a means of personal development and as a learning technique. The philosophy and practice of Dance and Drama in education will be explored. The possibilities of conceptual development and expansion of THE CREATIVE PROCESS through the art of Dance and Drama with a particular focus on the cognitive, social, and artistic development of the child.

This course is designed to assist teachers in the Primary/Junior Division in the development, implementation and assessment/evaluation of Dance and Drama focused learning experiences. Candidates will participate in work that involves games, movement, tableau, role-playing, storytelling, playmaking, writing in role, improvisation, interpretation and presentation. They will learn to explore the elements of dance through creative movement that may be inspired by picture books, visual images, and artworks and music. Candidates will also explore various forms of global dance and genres.

Current theories of arts in education will be incorporated as participants plan drama lessons, consider expectation(s) and implement assessment strategies as outlined in the Ministry documents. The use of Dance, Drama and Music as art forms as well as an INTEGRATIVE methodology for learning across the curriculum will provide a framework for the course.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.25
Exclusions: CTL7017H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7088H - Curriculum and Teaching in Visual Arts

As a part of the Curriculum & Instruction course, this module is designed to introduce you to strategies and approaches for teaching Visual Arts Education to Primary and/or Junior learners. This course is designed to help OISE MT students (re)discover the theory and practice of Art Education, as well as understand and apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for effective teaching and learning that meets the diverse needs of students. Over the course you will become more competent and confident in working with learning tools and resources in each of these areas of the curriculum; developing lesson themes and ideas; and devising questions and learning activities for students. You will become familiar with the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum policy documents: The Arts (2009), core concepts and teaching techniques, methods for integrating Art Education with other disciplines, including social justice, environmental education and indigenous approaches to knowing. Current ways of thinking about and teaching Art Education may differ significantly from when beginning teachers were students; therefore one of the aims of the course is to introduce new ways of thinking about these disciplines and their role in contemporary approaches to teaching and learning methodology for learning across the curriculum will provide a framework for the course.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.25
Exclusions: CTL7071H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7089H - Curriculum and Teaching in Physical Education

As a part of the Curriculum & Instruction course, this module is designed to introduce you to strategies and approaches for teaching Health & Physical Education (HPE) to Primary and/or Junior learners. This course is designed to help OISE MT students (re)discover the theory and practice of HPE, as well as understand and apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for effective teaching and learning that meets the diverse needs of students. Over the course you will become more competent and confident in working with learning tools and resources in each of these areas of the curriculum; developing lesson themes and ideas; and devising questions and learning activities for students. You will become familiar with the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum policy documents: The Health & Physical Education (2010), core concepts and teaching techniques, methods for integrating HPE with other disciplines, including social justice, environmental education and indigenous approaches to knowing. Current ways of thinking about and teaching HPE may differ significantly from when beginning teachers were students; therefore one of the aims of the course is to introduce new ways of thinking about these disciplines and their role in contemporary approaches to teaching and learning.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.25
Exclusions: CTL7071H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7090Y - Practice Teaching Year 2

This second year course provides supervised experience in an area of fieldwork, under the direction of faculty and field personnel. Teacher candidates are placed in partnership schools in public and separate school systems and in other settings that use the Ontario curriculum. Teacher Candidates are under the joint supervision of a field teacher on site and an academic staff member at OISE. The teacher candidates will have one placement in each of their divisions. This course is normally open only to students in the Teaching program.

Credit Value (FCE): 1.00
Grading: Credit/No Credit
Prerequisites: CTL7080H & CTL7081H
Exclusions: CTL7005H, CTL7082H, CTL7083H
Recommended Preparation: CTL7080H & CTL7081H as well as first year of MT program
Enrolment Limits: 25
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: Online, In Class, Hybrid

CTL7099Y - Major Research Paper

The Master of Teaching Research Project is designed to provide a deeper exploration of the interrelationships between educational theory, research, and practice. The overarching goal of this project is to engage students in an in-depth analysis of issues related to curriculum, teaching, and learning through systematic research. The MTRP has value both for students who are intending to pursue a career in classroom teaching, and for students who are planning to pursue doctoral studies. The Project involves the identification of a research problem, a literature review, data collection, data analysis, the construction of a formal report, which is published in a public online repository, and a formal presentation. As part of this process, students develop a variety of research-related skills, including the ability to formulate effective research questions, conduct interviews, review the academic and professional literatures, analyze data, and present research findings.

Credit Value (FCE): 1.00
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7100H - Mathematics Concepts for Elementary Teacher Candidates

This course equips students with the math knowledge and skills needed by Primary/Junior and Junior/Intermediate teachers. A strong foundation in math content knowledge is necessary for teachers to build pedagogical content knowledge capacities. Students will develop an understanding of numeracy concepts in: quantity relationships, operational sense and proportional reasoning. The course will build on problem solving content skills in multiplication, division, order of operations, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, integers, exponents, manipulating expressions and solving algebraic equations. Students will be immersed in meta-cognition as math learners and will reflect on their own math strengths, needs and learning styles. The course will offer various math pedagogies, such as math games and hands-on activities suitable for elementary classes.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.00
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

CTL7200H - Curriculum and Teaching in French as a Second Language – Primary/Junior

This course will help teacher-candidates develop the theoretical framework, skills, knowledge, and professionalism expected of beginning French teachers at the Primary and Junior levels. Since this course is offered in French, teacher candidates will also have the opportunity of practicing their oral and written French. Teacher candidates will be expected to speak French at all times during class and all written assignments will be submitted in French.



Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Successful completion of the OISE French Proficiency Test administered by OISE’s Continuing and Professional Learning Office – see https://cpl.oise.utoronto.ca/course/french-proficiency-test/
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: Online, In Class, Hybrid, Online (Summer only)

DEN1001H - Graduate Research Dissemination Seminars

Graduate Research Dissemination Seminars is required as part of the program for all graduate students at the Faculty of Dentistry. This course is primarily student-led with students providing the seminar content and chairing sessions. The course is designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to present their research in a safe environment and to receive tailored and individualized feedback to improve their performance. The submission of an abstract of the presentation on Quercus is mandatory, at least a week before the presentation. Each student will have 20 minutes to present their research, and this will be followed by a 5-minute question period. Following the presentation, the student will meet with at least one of the Course Directors for 30 minutes to review student performance and to provide feedback. During that meeting, no comments will be made about the research content presented. As part of this course, the student will also be required to chair an oral session to experience timekeeping monitoring, audience management, and questions fielding. All sessions will take place online through Zoom to increase accessibility. MSc students register in DEN1001H while PhD students register in DEN1100H.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
This continuous course will continuously roll over until a final grade or credit/no credit is entered.
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1001Y - Seminars in Oral Health Sciences

Seminars in Oral Health Sciences is required as part of the program for all MSc and PhD students at the Faculty of Dentistry. The course is designed to demonstrate research progress, develop, and enhance presentation skills to a large audience, field questions and chair a seminar session. As part of this program, students must also meet individually with an instructor from the University of Toronto Health Sciences Writing Centre, one to two weeks before their seminar to receive expert advice on presentation skills and the design of their presentation. MSc students register in DEN1001Y and PhD students register in DEN1100Y.

Credit Value (FCE): 1.00
Grading: Credit/No Credit
This continuous course will continuously roll over until a final grade or credit/no credit is entered.
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1002H - Oral Pathology

This is a weekly seminar course that reviews the pathology of oral soft and hard tissues, to prepare graduate students in various Dental Specialty Programs for specialty practice. Students are expected to participate in discussions of the pathology underlying broad categories of disease, for example, infections, developmental defects, reactive hyperplasia, benign and malignant tumors, and to use this understanding to develop rational schemes for differential diagnosis and treatment. Students will also learn about recent advances in oral and surgical pathology, including their potential application to diagnosis and patient management.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1003H - Preventive Dentistry

This course uses a seminar format to discuss and develop critical thinking among graduate students in regards to the aetiology, risk assessment, and prevention of oral diseases and conditions. Preventive dentistry aims to maintain and improve the oral health status of individuals and populations. The typical image of preventive dentistry is to prevent dental caries in a patient. However, prevention of dental caries at the individual level only represents one part of preventive dentistry. Preventive dentistry integrates primordial, primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary prevention, along with considerations at the individual and population level, including the oral-systemic health link, and involvement of other health and social service providers in the prevention of all oral diseases and conditions. The course is available to all graduate students at the faculty.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1006Y - Seminars in Dental Public Health

This course uses a seminar format to survey the discipline of dental public health. This includes the determinants of health, primary health care, oral health care systems, insurance, health economics, health planning and evaluation, and ethical issues in dentistry. The course is available for all graduate students at the faculty.

Credit Value (FCE): 1.00
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1007H - Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

This lecture and seminar course will review fundamental principles of radiobiology and radiation protection, and the application of conventional and advanced imaging modalities in the interpretation of abnormalities of the oral and maxillofacial region that may be encountered in the practice of the dental specialties.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1008H - Cone Beam CT Imaging

This lecture and seminar course builds on the image interpretation concepts developed in DEN1007H Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, a graduate-level course for students enrolled in one of the MSc/dental specialty programs. This new course specifically emphasizes the applications of three-dimensional imaging in the form of limited/small (less than or equal to 8 cm) field-of-view cone beam computed tomography in the dental specialties. Successful completion of this course will enable the student to make an application to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario for a permit to own and/or operate a limited/small field-of-view cone beam CT system on graduation.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.25
Prerequisites: DEN1007H
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1009H - Pain: From Basic Science to Patient Care

This course begins the fundamental neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the somatosensory and pain systems. Next, we review how pain is measured in animals and in humans. Finally, we review pain diagnosis and current and new pain management approaches. The course also includes a flipped-classroom component, where students present some of the key topics. There are no prerequisites for enrolling in this course.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1010H - Research Ethics

This course aims to highlight ethical values and regulations in different topics that are research-related: scientific writing, confidentiality agreements, students mentoring, research with humans, animals, and biological samples, etc. The course involves participation in a seminar and the fulfillment of an online course offered by the Tri-council Funding Agencies of Canada. The same seminar will be offered in two different dates and attendance in one of the sessions is mandatory. Additionally, proof of completion of the online tutorial course "Tri-Council Policy Statement 2 — Tutorial Course on Research Ethics" is required.

Credit Value (FCE): 0.50
Grading: Credit/No Credit
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class

DEN1011Y - Advanced Seminars in Oral Pathology

This course is designed for graduate students in Oral Pathology. In addition to the review of all cases received in the Oral Pathology Diagnostic Service, the course incudes formal and informal seminars on current topics in general pathology, oral histopathology, and clinical oral pathology. The Oral Pathology course (DEN1002H) must be taken either before or simultaneously with this course.

Credit Value (FCE): 1.00
Campus(es): St. George
Delivery Mode: In Class