January 2025

Important Note: Students who have not registered for courses for one or more years must apply for Continuance before they can register. More information

Winter PBDE Courses

EDUC-5001-050 ST: Comprehensive School Health

Instructor: B. Button
Dates and Times: Tuesdays; January 6, 2025 to April 25, 2025; 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: 1L04

*TBA

This course counts as an elective in the General stream.

EDUC-5421-770 Theories in School Counselling

Instructor: C. Pitura
Dates and Times: TBA

Delivery Method: LIVE: Scheduled class times will take place using an online platform. Students must be available during the posted lecture times for live streaming and/or group interactions. High speed internet is mandatory.

This course provides an overview of the fundamental theories of school counselling including: the contexts of effective treatment systems, person-centered therapy, existential and gestalt therapy, emerging counselling approaches, rational emotive behavioural therapy, action-focused therapy, reality and behavioural therapy. Also considered are values, objectives, ethical issues, and the counsellor-student relationship. Throughout, emphasis is placed on practical counselling strategies for early, middle, and senior years’ levels. Through lectures, readings, class activities, discussions and video clips, students learn about the fundamental components of the major theories, examine differences and similarities amongst the various approaches, and consider practical issues that school counsellors face.

This is a core course in the Counselling stream and also counts as an elective in the General stream.

EDUC-5427-001 Supervised School Counselling Practicum

Instructor: P. Locken
Dates and Times: TBA
Location: TBA

The practicum in school counselling provides an opportunity for students to synthesize the theoretical information on individual counselling and group counselling from their coursework and apply it in an early, middle, or senior years’ school setting. The course provides both a laboratory experience and a field experience under the joint supervision of a U of W supervisor and a site supervisor. The school counselling practicum is designed to assist students in learning the function and procedures that accompany the role of a school counselor through observation, shadowing, and reviewing relevant documentation. Students are required to complete a minimum of 100 hours in a supervised school setting. Please see website on current application procedures. Field placements are limited and placements will only be arranged by the Faculty of Education Placement Coordinator. Students may not complete their practicum in the same school division, or during the same hours, in which they work.

*Prerequisites: EDUC-5426 with a minimum grade B and have a B. Ed. degree with at least two years of appropriate teaching/work experience.

This is a core course in the School Counselling stream. Students who are not in the School Counselling stream may not enroll in EDUC-5427-001 Counselling Practicum.

EDUC-5432-770 Crisis & Trauma

Instructor: J. DeFehr
Dates and Times: Wednesdays; January 6, 2025 to April 25, 2025; 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Location: LIVE: Scheduled class times will take place using an online platform. Students must be available during the posted lecture times for live streaming and/or group interactions. High speed internet is mandatory.

This course introduces students to approaches and assessment techniques relevant to effective crisis and trauma work with early-, middle-, and senior-years students. Topics include strategies for prevention, intervention, and postvention; Western-based trauma discourse and counter-discourse; gender, colonization, and trauma; suicidal crisis; crisis related to body image, fat prejudice, and eating difficulty; anti-violence resistance and community building; "belonging" students; and self-care.

This course counts as an elective in the School Counselling, Special Ed (Inclusive Ed) and General streams.

EDUC-5441-001 Inclusive Education II

Instructor: TBA
Dates and Times: Saturdays; January 11, 25, February 8, March 1, and 15; 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L08

This course provides a more in-depth look at some of the topics covered in Inclusive Education I. Specifically, assessment, service delivery, adaptations, and individualized educational and behavioral programming are explored. As well, emphasis is placed on examining practical strategies for meeting the needs of at-risk children and youth, establishing mentorship programs, and introducing enrichment activities in the regular classroom. Models, history, current issues and strategies in providing supports, accommodations, and differentiated curriculum in inclusive environments are explored.

*Prerequisites: EDUC-5440 (Inclusive Education I)

This is a core course in the Special Education (Inclusive) stream and also counts as an elective in the General stream.

EDUC-5441-770 Inclusive Education II

Instructor: TBA
Dates and Times: Mondays; January 6, 2025 to April 25, 2025; 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: LIVE: Scheduled class times will take place using an online platform. Students must be available during the posted lecture times for live streaming and/or group interactions. High speed internet is mandatory.

*Prerequisites: EDUC-5440 (Inclusive Education I)

This is a core course in the Special Education (Inclusive) stream and also counts as an elective in the General stream.

EDUC-5443-001 Exceptional Child II

Instructor: TBA
Dates and Times: Saturdays; January 18, February 1, 15, March 8, and 22; 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L08

This course builds on the knowledge from Exceptional Children I. It emphasizes an inclusive philosophy with consideration of how to meet the needs of all students. It focuses on teaming, planning, and intervention for more significant special needs, including cognitive, behavioral, and physical and sensory disabilities and disorders. Students concentrate on strategies that apply directly to their own school situations while learning from the varied experiences of their colleagues.

*Prerequisites: EDUC-5442 (Exceptional Child I) and EDUC-5001

This is a core course in the Special Education (Inclusive) stream and also counts as an elective in the General stream.

EDUC-5443-770 Exceptional Child II

Instructor: TBA
Dates and Times: Thursdays; January 6, 2025 to April 25, 2025; 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Location: LIVE: Scheduled class times will take place using an online platform. Students must be available during the posted lecture times for live streaming and/or group interactions. High speed internet is mandatory.

*Prerequisites: EDUC-5442 (Exceptional Child I) and EDUC-5001

This is a core course in the Special Education (Inclusive) stream and also counts as an elective in the General stream.

EDUC-5450-770 Risk & Resiliency

Instructor: TBA
Dates and Times: Wednesdays; January 6, 2025 to April 25, 2025; 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Delivery Method: LIVE: Scheduled class times will take place using an online platform. Students must be available during the posted lecture times for live streaming and/or group interactions. High speed internet is mandatory.

This course examines the characteristics and issues facing vulnerable children and youth, particularly those children called "at risk". This course seeks to emphasize strengths that might compensate for weaknesses, health instead of illness, normality instead of pathology, and hopefulness instead of professional cynicism. This population of youth is particularly threatening to untrained adults who are regularly lured in counter-aggressive or avoidant behavior. It is important that adults who work with these youth with unmet needs are able to provide corrective responses.

This is a core course in the Special Ed (Inclusive Ed) stream and counts as an elective in the School Counselling and General streams.