Offered by:~Continuing Education-Educatio
Degree:Cert Inclusive Education
Program Requirement:
The Certificate in Inclusive Education is intended for regular class teachers, special educators, adult educators, and other educational personnel. The program provides a sequence of courses that will ensure a sound foundation for adapting curriculum and instruction for students with varying abilities, learning styles, and special needs. It strives to meet the needs of educators who must adapt to their changing roles in contemporary schools: (a) for general educators, to educate students with diverse needs in their heterogeneous classrooms, and (b) for special educators, to collaborate with other professionals working with exceptional students.
Required Courses (24 credits)
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EDPI 309
Diverse Learners
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Inclusion debates; review of the evolution of the history of inclusive education; models of development ( eco-systemic models); characteristics, teaching practices; teachers' roles in inclusive classrooms. Overview of characteristics, causes, needs, and teaching strategies for diverse and exceptional students, teaching and learning for differences in intellectual, emotional, behavioural, sensory, physical and learning domains found in effective inclusive classrooms. Working with families.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. and Concurrent students only.
- Offered through Continuing Education or Summer Studies.
- Prerequisite: EDPI 341
- Terms
- Instructors
- David Hoida, Maxime Cousineau-Pérusse
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EDPI 341
Instruction in Inclusive Schls
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Developing, planning, implementing and evaluating effective learning programs for diverse learners, and consideration of their more general applicability. Adapting curriculum and instruction for learners with varying abilities, learning styles, and needs. Collaboration with students, families, and other educators (or stakeholders) in the instructional process. Application of adaptations at the classroom and school level for all students in inclusive schools.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Restriction: Open to B.Ed. students only
- Also offered through Continuing Education.
- Prerequisite: EDPE 300.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Caroline Temcheff, Gus Appignanesi
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EDPI 344
Assessment for Instruction
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Assessing student strengths, problems and needs; functions and use of different types of student assessment (traditional and alternative assessments); assessing the classroom environment; issues in assessment. Application component: application of assessment process with exceptional students, and use of results for planning and adapting instruction.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Offered through Summer Studies and Continuing Education.
- **This course is only for the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE) for getting people to register online.
- **Web drop deadline is May 21, 2024
- **Web add deadline is June 1, 2024
- **Web withdrawal deadline is June 2, 2024
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EDPI 440
Managing the Inclusive Classrm
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Comprehensive approach to classroom management, including management of student learning and behavior, classroom environment, material and human resources, and teacher growth. Focus on research-based practices, including behavioral approaches, for effectively managing a classroom with diversity of students. Application component: application of classroom management principles in the field.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Offered through Continuing Education
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EDPI 441
Stds with Behav Difficulties
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Theoretical approaches and specific teaching methods appropriate to the needs of students with emotional or behaviour problems, including students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Multimodal team intervention approaches are emphasized. Application component: application of teaching methods with students experiencing behaviour difficulties.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Offered through Continuing Education.
- Terms
- Instructors
- Jo Ann Buckshot, Sasha Zalob
- Gus Appignanesi
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EDPI 442
Stdnts with Learn Difficulties
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Commonalities and differences between students with specific learning disabilities, and related teaching approaches. Emphasis on methods, materials, and technology for teaching academic content as well as social skills. Application component: modifying and teaching content areas to students experiencing learning difficulties.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Offered through Continuing Education.
- Terms
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDPI 526
Supp. Stud. Strengths &Talent
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): The psychology and practice of supporting the strengths and talents of all students across educational and community settings . Strength and talent-based programs and activities, assessments to discover student strengths and talents, classroom adaptations, application of strength and talent-based approaches to curriculum design.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
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EDPI 543
Family, School and Community
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Focus on the examination of three important systems in a child’s life; namely family, school and community, as well as societal influences on student growth, development, and adjustment. Emphasis will be on evidence-based practices in collaborating with families and community organizations to form partnerships, classroom interventions and school-based initiatives to enhance well-being.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Terms
- Instructors
- Michelle E Smith, Jessica Ruglis
Complementary Courses (6 credits)
6 credits chosen from the following:
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EDPE 496
Individual Reading Course
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology): Supervised individual reading course on an approved subject.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- By arrangement with individual instructor. Permission must be obtained from the Department before registration
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year
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EDPI 527
Creativity & its Cultivation
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Recent research, theory, and educational practice concerning creativity, with special attention to creativity in students and educational settings.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Offered through Continuing Education.
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EDPI 539
Field Work 1
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Supervised experience in an approved relevant educational setting.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
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EDPI 540
Field Work 2
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Ed Psych & Couns (Inclusive): Supervised experience in an approved relevant educational setting.
Offered by: Educational&Counselling Psych
- Terms
- Instructors
- Tara Flanagan
- Tara Flanagan
Other courses may be approved by the Program Director. Further information may be obtained by emailing ecpundergrad.education [at] mcgill.ca. Courses listed above are not necessarily offered on a regular basis. Check Minerva for course availability.
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