Assessment in the Elementary Mathematics Classroom

Three credits · Graduate

This course challenges traditional views of assessment as a standalone event, emphasizing its integration with teaching and learning. Grounded in current research, the course explores how assessment, when interwoven with teaching, enhances student motivation, engagement, and growth creating an inclusive space of learning. Formative assessment is presented as a continuous process involving both teachers and students in gathering and using quality information to guide decisions throughout the learning journey. The course also critically analyzes summative assessment tools, focusing on aligning assessment practices with research to ensure they support meaningful learning outcomes. Three credits. Certificate in Outdoor Education This program is designed to fulfil a need identified by practitioners across the province in response to curriculum changes in the physical education curriculum in Nova Scotia. The Certificate in Outdoor Education is recognized for a licensing upgrade in Nova Scotia and consists of a sequence of eleven courses which focus on the skills and pedagogy required to offer outdoor pursuits to students of all ages in Nova Scotia schools. This certificate is offered to cohorts of in-service teachers on a part-time basis. In addition, to EDUC 405A - 405J, students will also complete EDUC 464. EDUC 405A Teaching Co-operative Games & Leadership in Public Schools This course is designed to provide teachers with the skills and teaching strategies for enacting student leadership development through experiential strategies that focus upon co-operative games and team building initiatives primarily for outdoor settings. Teachers will learn to create an experiential-based program to meet the needs of various groups of students by developing strategies for delivering activity-based initiatives for individual and group learning. Teachers will learn to facilitate initiatives ensuring student connections to curricular outcomes. Three credits. EDUC 405B Teaching Cycling in Public Schools This course provides teachers with the knowledge and skills for teaching the fundamental skills and safety practices for urban cycling and mountain biking. It also helps teachers to understand how to teach their students knowledge about active transportation. Active transportation in this course is specific to cycling and based on teaching children road awareness, rules of the road, cycling skills, and cycling safety to help them consider cycling as a potential life-long activity. Three credits. EDUC 405C Teaching Archery in Public Schools This course is designed to provide teachers with the teaching strategies following the skill progression of the National Archery in the Schools Program. The course will guide the development of safe-range practices, tournament play, inclusion adaptations, and how to develop a comprehensive unit plan, supported by outcome specific lesson plans, with current assessment practices. Furthermore, this course will also address yearlong planning that targets cross-curricular applications and inclusion strategies that are essential for teaching in schools. Three credits. EDUC 405D Teaching Canoe Tripping in Public Schools This course is designed to provide teachers with the skills and teaching strategies for planning a skill-ability appropriate canoe trip for public schools. It prepares teachers to lead canoe excursions as day trips, as well as extended canoeing expeditions (multiple day and night trips). The focus will be on-water safety, environmental hazards, adaptive equipment, portage management, and in- camp preparations. Embedded into all the units taught in this course are practices attuned to wilderness travel and cross-curricular connections and Indigenous knowledge. Three credits. EDUC 405E Teaching Canoeing in Public Schools This course is designed to prepare teachers to be able to engage in flat water canoeing instruction and to help them learn the pedagogical approaches that will assist them in promoting paddling as a life-long activity. The course includes on-water and dockside safety, environmental hazards, adaptive equipment, skill-based games, and helps attune teachers to on-water risks. Teachers will also develop skills and strategies for planning a progression of paddling skills for students in elementary and secondary schools. Three credits. EDUC 405F Teaching Core Camping in Public Schools This course is designed to provide teachers with the skills and strategies for planning and teaching a progression of core camping skills from primary to grade 12. The focus of the course is to prepare teachers in the areas of trip planning, on-the-land skills and managing outdoor risks associated with leading students. Leave-no-Trace approaches are embedded throughout all dimensions of the course to assist teachers to provide a curriculum with an ethic of sustainability and environmental preservation. Three credits. EDUC 405G Teaching Kayaking in Public Schools This course is designed to prepare teachers to be able to engage in flat water kayaking instruction and to help them learn the pedagogical approaches that will assist them in promoting paddling as a life-long activity. The course includes on-water and dockside safety, environmental hazards, adaptive equipment, skill-based games, and helps attune teachers to on-water risks. Teachers will also develop skills and teaching strategies for planning a progression of paddling skills for students in secondary schools. Three credits. EDUC 405H Risk Management in Outdoor Education This course provides teachers with the skills and strategies for emergency planning, conducting risk assessments for their outdoor program. Supporting the preplanning is learning about injury movement in wilderness/remote contexts and training to respond to environmental hazards. The course is structured to include outdoor lesson preparation, safety plans, and emergency response plans. Teachers will review provincial safety guidelines that govern outdoor teaching, as part of the outdoor pursuits listed in the Public Schools Program. Three credits. EDUC 405I Teaching Navigation & Orienteering in Public Schools This course is designed to provide teachers with the skills and strategies for teaching basic and advanced elements of navigation, GPS, and orienteering, as part of their curriculum for public school teaching. In addition to the course hours devoted to development of lessons and assessment skills, additional study will also be completed in general and specific inquiry-based methodologies related to the teaching of the curricular topics to meet P-12 learning expectations. Three credits. EDUC 405J Teaching Winter Trekking in Public Schools This course is designed to develop the skills and knowledge associated with the winter trekking activities of the physical education curriculum which are Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, and winter trekking camp skills. Teachers will also develop their abilities for teaching these trekking activities as part of their physical education curriculum while taking into account seasonal realities. Teachers will develop their ability to engage in comprehensive yearlong unit, and lesson planning including assessment practices that target progressive fundamental movement skills. Three credits. 9.18.2 Master of Education Graduate courses in education are offered in the fall, winter, spring and summer terms, primarily online. Students are normally required to complete a residential component during the month of July following acceptance into the program. During this residential component, students will normally complete EDUC 505 and EDUC 534. EDUC 505 is a prerequisite for EDUC 506, 507, and 508. Normally, EDUC 506, 507, and 508 are taken after the core courses are completed. EDUC 506 or 507 is required for those students completing a thesis. Educational Administration and Policy Stream Credits 505 Introduction to Educational Research 3 533 Dynamics of Change 3 534 Introduction to the Foundations of Education 3 561 Leadership and Administrative Theories 3 573 Professional Development and Supervision 3 Electives: in the course-based option 15 In place of electives, thesis-based students take the following courses: 599 Thesis 12 506 Quantitative Research Methods in Education or 507 Qualitative Research Methods in Education 3 Electives are to be selected from the graduate courses offered in education and should reflect the focus of study chosen by the student. Curriculum and Instruction Stream Credits 505 Introduction to Educational Research 3 527 Principles of Learning 3 532 Curriculum Theory 3 534 Introduction to the Foundations of Education 3 536 Program Development 3 Electives: in the course-based option 15 In place of electives, thesis-based students take the following courses: 599 Thesis 12 506 Quantitative Research Methods in Education or 507 Qualitative Research Methods in Education 3 Electives are to be selected from the graduate courses offered in education and should reflect the focus of study chosen by the student. No substitution or transfer of credit will normally be allowed in the core courses.