Thursday, 30 January 2014

Simon Fraser Field Programs-Graduate Diplomas


Exploring Arts Education, Burnaby


This Graduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Studies has been developed in partnership with School District 41 (Burnaby) for elementary and secondary teachers who seek to deepen their understanding of arts education and creative curriculum integration.

PROGRAM THEMES
  • Examining contemporary issues in Arts Education
  • Designing learning activities that effectively integrate the arts across the curriculum
  • Using the arts to address the diverse needs of learners
  • Seeking to understand the expression of cultural, inter-cultural, and Indigenous (articulated as Aboriginal in BC Ministry documentation) identities through the arts
  • Exploring multiple literacies and emerging digital media technologies within arts education
  • Exploring the arts as a form of personal and professional inquiry
  • Developing an understanding of the ways in which the arts are transformative in the education and life of each learner

Contacts



http://www.sfu.ca/education/gs/degreediploma/graddiplomafp.html

Information Sessions:
http://www.sfu.ca/education/gs/explore/information-sessions/gde.html



Learning Through Exploration in the Formative Years, Abbotsford


This Graduate Diploma in Advanced Professional Studies has been developed in partnership with School District 34 (Abbotsford) for teachers who seek to deepen their understanding of learners aged 4-8.


PROGRAM THEMES
  • Intentional design of instructional space and selection of materials
  • Historical images of teaching, learning, and play
  • Frameworks to support the holistic development of young children (e.g., learning through the arts)
  • Relationship between formative assessment and responsive curriculum
  • Co-construction of curriculum with children and families
  • Family and community as partners in learning
  • Scaffolding during exploration and play-based learning
  • Deepening understanding through re-representation of learning
  • Project-based learning
  • Supporting successful transitions across the primary years

http://www.sfu.ca/education/gs/degreediploma/graddiplomafp.html

Information Sessions:
http://www.sfu.ca/education/gs/explore/information-sessions/gde.html

Contacts




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