YEAR 2 INFORMATION SESSION

Planning for 2016 - 2017

AGENDA

• Course Registration

• Alternative Placements

COURSE REGISTRATION• Registration will open June 2016• Register in your Education

(Nipissing) courses first• Plan WLU schedule around NU• Register for Observation & Practice

Teaching• Year 3 EDUC 4671/ EDUC 4691• Year 4 EDUC 4686/ EDUC 4696

OPTION COURSESReligious Education in Roman Catholic SchoolsEDUC 1526

Kindergarten; Curriculum Theory & Practice

EDUC 4706

International Teaching

EDUC 4807

English as a Second Language

EDUC 4806

*Offered in 2016/17 and 2017/18, subject to sufficient interest and registration.

WHAT IS AN ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT?

• Use teaching and transferable skills in non-traditional teaching environments, including private schools

• Explore alternative employment options where teaching skills are an asset

• Network and make community contacts that may lead to future employment outside the classroom

• Offer services to the community

An opportunity to:

Alternative Practicum Overview

Observation and Practice Teaching course EDUC 4686/4696

120 volunteer hours required to fulfill credit requirements

Alternative practicum hours can be completed on any day of the week

Alternative practicum is self-selected and arranged by the student

Must be approved and supported by the Practicum Advisory Committee before the placement may begin

Alternative Practicum Placements may begin as early as May 2016

FINDING A PLACEMENT? Criteria:

• Significant connection to human development and service

• Teaching skills may be applied

• Total of 120 volunteer hours in one placement within the time period

from May 2016 – August 31, 2017. Two placements cannot be

combined to provide 120 hours

• Location must appear to be healthy and safe

• Unpaid service

• In Ontario, but outside of a publicly funded school board

• Supervisor is not immediate family, or peer in the program, or a parent

of a child involved in the placement

• International placement is only Nipissing sponsored

• Not more than two (2) Teacher Candidates with the same supervisor

per year

TEACHER CANDIDATES EXPERIENCES… Andrew Henderson and Nick Southen

Nipissing University

Mason Gomes Cube For Teachers

DOCUMENTS & TIMELINES

1. Application

2. Timesheet(s)

3. Evaluation

Submit in April 2016 - for a May 2016 start

Submit by August 31, 2017

Submit by August 31, 2017

Alternative Practicum Placement Applications

Timelines

All forms to be submitted to the Practicum Office

NOTE: You must allow three weeks for the approval process and the placement cannot begin until approved

Failure to Submit an Alternative Placement

Application

• In order to graduate from the Concurrent Education

program, Teacher Candidates must fulfill all degree

requirements

• Detailed Degree Requirements can be found in the

Academic Calendar

• If any of the application, timesheets or final evaluation

are not submitted by the dates outlined, a mark of “F” will

be entered for transcript purposes.

Evaluation of the Alternative Practicum Placement

• There is one final evaluation, but it is desirable

to review the evaluation form and the

expectations at the beginning and middle of the

placement with the Supervisor

• Students are to maintain a time sheet and

submit it at the completion of the placement

with Supervisor signature

• The timesheet and evaluation form are due

to the Practicum Office one week after the

completion of the placement but no later than

September, 2017

Overall Summary1. Pickup an Alternative Placement Teacher

Candidate/Supervisor handbook from the practicum office during April 2016, or find details Here

2. Use the official letter to inform potential Supervisor to determine the feasibility of a placement

3. Complete and submit an Alternative Practicum placement application to Practicum Office for approval 3 weeks prior to placement commencing

4. After approval is received, provide Alternative Placement Handbook to supervisor and placement may begin

5. Complete 120 volunteer hours in the Alternative Placement setting

6. Collaborate in completing the final evaluation and submit the original with the signed timesheet(s) to the Practicum Office, NO LATER THAN August 31, 2017

EXAMPLES OF PRIOR ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENTS COMPLETED

The NU website has a number of opportunities:

http://www.nipissingu.ca/departments/brantford/practicum/general-info/Pages/Alternative-Placements.aspx

Alternative Practicum Placement International

• Planned for May 2017

• Destinations - to be determined

• Accompanied by Faculty Facilitator

• Apply by September 2016; approved in

October 2017

• Approximate cost: $4000-4500

HTTP://WWW.NIPISSINGU.CA/DEPARTMENTS/INTERNATIONAL/EDUCATION-ABROAD/BED-INTERNATIONAL-PRACTICA/PAGES/BRANTFORD-CAMPUS.ASPX

Teacher Candidates in Year 3 for 2016-2017 will be permitted to complete an International Placement

in May 2017

Have you

completed the

email survey sent

to you today?

Questions??

Contact Associate Dean:barbarao@nipissingu.ca

OrPracticum Officer:

deanneo@nipissingu.ca