May-August 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.
EDUC-5001-770 ST: Building Resilience in Trauma Exposed Work
Instructor: K. McCluskey
Dates and Times: May 5th to June 16th: TTh; 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.
Educators play an important role in the lives of youth, often building meaningful connections that provide safety and belonging. As a result of these relationships, we learn their stories and – in most cases – willingly work beyond required curriculum outcomes in an effort to meet additional student needs. Over time, the accumulation of traumatic stories and extended efforts can have adverse effects in our professional and personal lives. This course will look at the causes and symptoms of burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress and encourage teachers to build resilience as they are encouraged to adapt practices conducive to collective and self-wellness.
This course counts as an elective in the School Counselling and General streams.
EDUC-5001-001 ST: Teacher Action Projects to Support 2SLGBTQIA+ Students
Instructor: J. Bergen
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L06
This course enables teachers to design and implement action projects that support Kindergarten to Grade 12 students of diverse sexualities and genders, including Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) students. Topics covered will include current Manitoba policy, curricular, and social contexts, queer and trans theory in education, queer literacies, inclusive/expansive classroom practices, and relevant community resources. Through experiential and place-based learning, teachers will build the knowledge and skills necessary to synthesize theoretical and practical issues related to supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ students in their classrooms, schools, and communities.
*Students who hold credit in EDUC-5447 Sex, Gender, and Diversity can not hold credit in this course.
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-002 ST: Empathic Creativity
Instructor: K. Reimer
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L04
If we are to find solutions to the mounting list of challenges that we face locally, nationally, and globally, K-12 schools need to teach students more about the concepts of creativity, empathy, and inclusion. This course will teach participants about the different theoretical constructs of empathy, creativity, and inclusion, and ultimately align them into one effective framework called "Empathic Creativity". First, the course will define and describe concepts like creativity, empathy, and inclusion. Second, the course will examine and review current literature and research on the concepts of “Empathic Design” and “Inclusive Design”. Third, the course will explore the potential of merging some of the best components of creativity, Empathic Design, and Inclusive Design into a construct that will be referred to as “Empathic Creativity”. Finally, using an inquiry-based learning approach, participants will create a practical K-12 school "unit" involving the principles of Empathic Creativity and present their units to the class.
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-001 ST: Teaching Human Rights and Global Citizenship in Manitoba
Instructor: L. Kornelsen
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L08
Even though the concept of human rights is a universally imagined idea, it is mostly understood and honoured through local experience and day-to-day living. Because of this and because the world—indeed our own society—is made up of myriads of ways of being and knowing, a commitment to human rights necessitates a dance between the universal and the plural, between the global and the local.
And so, while thoughts of human rights give rise to universal imaginaries, they can only ever be taught in the local, in the here and now, in this place. This course examines current and emerging issues in global human rights, often assumed and referenced in provincial K12 social studies curricula, and then explores their various pedagogies, ones that necessarily navigate the ground between global concerns and local responsibilities, recognize the local-global reciprocating nature of rights, and consider the implications in teaching for citizenship in global contexts or global citizenship.
*Students who hold credit in HR-2600 Emerging Issues in Human Rights can not hold credit in this course.
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-002 ST: Play and Pedagogical Imagination
Instructor: C. Dunnington
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L07
This course proposes play in all its guises, while constantly returning to the idea that play offers us a rich space for pedagogical imagination. Topics will range from familiar notions of play (dramatic play, messy play, risky play), to pedagogical schools of play (Reggio Emilia, in particular), to more recent discussions of play as an intriguing site for considering largescale injustices (i.e. environmental degradation and colonization).
This course will locate play. Play is situated and play is political. Thus, this course also proposes that “attending to relational play compositions in small everyday spaces allows us to open pedagogical possibilities for playing”; students are invited to deeply consider play as it relates to their own histories, their own presents, and the histories and presents of their students (Climate Action Childhood Network, 2023).
This course will trouble notions of play that signify innocence, or the childlike. Nevertheless, it is a course in which students will play themselves, and all over Winnipeg at that. In the simplest terms: in this course we are going to “do playing” while asking “what does play do”?
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5411-770 & 771 Violence in Schools
Instructor: N. Gould and T. Eagle
Dates and Times: May 5th to June 16th: TTh; 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.
Youth violence in schools is a symptom of multiple and pervasive societal problems. Child abuse, poverty, unemployment, intolerance, alcohol and substance abuse, lack of sufficient support services for youths and families, and exposure to media violence contribute to a culture of violence. The complex nature of youth violence demands multifaceted solutions. Reducing violence in schools requires early and systematic intervention in classrooms from early childhood to secondary levels. Schools, as influential socializing institutions, can play a central role in prevention and intervention.
This course counts as an elective in the Inclusive Education, School Counselling and General streams.
EDUC-5425-770 Counselling Ethics for Canadian School Settings
Instructor: C. Pitura
Dates and Times: May 5th to June 16th: MW; 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.
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of legal and ethical issues as they relate to the profession of school counselling. The objectives are to provide students with an overview and general understanding of: (1) standards of practice for counsellors; (2) professional responsibilities of counsellors in a variety of settings; (3) ethical counselling relationships; (4) ethical consulting and referral in counselling, and (5) legal and ethical guidelines in school settings. Topics include: informed consent, confidentiality, record-keeping, boundary issues, training and competence, clinical supervision, working with minors and diversity issues.
This is a core course in the School Counselling stream and counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5445-770 Educational Assessment
Instructor: M. Mitchell-Pellett
Dates and Times: May 5th to June 16th: MW; 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.
This course reviews current theories and applications of both formative and summative assessment practices for students in the inclusive classroom. Students explore standardized, normed, and criterion-referenced assessments and the interpretation of specific programming for identified students. This course gives students the opportunity to work with strategies and provides direction in working collaboratively with administrators, classroom teachers, students, parents and auxiliary professional personnel.
*Prerequisites: EDUC-5440 and EDUC-5441 (Inclusive Education I and II)
This is a core course in the Inclusive Education stream and also counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-771 ST: Comprehensive School Health
Instructor: B. Button
Dates and Times: July 14th to August 8th; TWTh; 1;00 p.m. to 4:00 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.
Students will be introduced to the evidence-based comprehensive school health framework. They will develop an understanding of the theoretical foundation, evidence base, and resources specific to the Manitoba school setting. Students will emerge from this course with the necessary tools to become school health champions, using research-based findings as the building blocks.
This course counts as an elective in the and General stream.
EDUC-5401-770 Creative Problem Solving
Instructor: J. Barkman
Dates and Times: July 14th to July25th; MTWThF; 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 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.
This course examines misconceptions that often inhibit creativity, distinguishes between creative and critical thinking, identifies problem-solving styles, and explores ways of developing creative environments in schools and
other settings. After being introduced to various models for learning and applying Creative Problem Solving, students build a personal 'tool box' of pragmatic techniques and have the opportunity to practice them.
This course counts as an elective in the Inclusive Education, School Counselling and General streams.
EDUC-5405-770 & 771 Troubled Children & Youth
Instructor: R. Oliviera-Mendes & J. Perisien
Dates and Times: July 14th to July25th; MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 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 is designed to prepare educators to meet the needs of emotionally fragile and behaviourally
disruptive children and youth. Emphasis is on Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI), an advanced, interactive,
therapeutic set of strategies that help teachers and other caregivers understand the cycle of conflict and its
long-term effects. Students learn to reframe problems from crisis management to crisis teaching, treat disrespectful students respectfully, de escalate aggression and counter-aggression, recover after a crisis, and turn crisis situations into learning opportunities.
This is a core course in the Inclusive Education stream and also counts as an elective in the School Counselling and General streams.
EDUC-5407-770 At-Risk Readers
Instructor: K. Siwak
Dates and Times: July 14th to July25th; MTWThF; 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 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.
Some children and youth have great difficulty acquiring language arts skills. Helping these readers and
writers achieve greater proficiency is an educational priority. The purpose of this course is to provide experienced, practicing teachers with the opportunity to develop a thorough understanding of reading and writing disability within a practical and a theoretical framework. The focus is on mastering the essential components of assessment and remedial strategies.
This course counts as an elective in the Inclusive Education and General streams.
EDUC-5422-770 Early Year & Middle Year School Counselling
Instructor: A. Waluk
Dates and Times: July 14th to July25th; MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 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 provides a thorough study of counselling as it relates to the early and middle years' student. Emphasis is placed on the role and function of the school counsellor within the framework of a comprehensive developmental guidance program model. Contemporary issues related to early years and middle years students are explored and strategies for assisting students are examined.
This is a core course in the School Counselling stream and also counts as an elective in the Inclusive Education and General streams.