This course is designed to provide candidates with an overview and awareness of First Nations, Métis and Inuit beliefs that lifelong learning will enhance the candidates’ professional knowledge and counselling practice. The conceptual framework for the course content encourages candidates to reflect on their learning process by considering the building of the connections to mind, body, heart, and spirit. The candidates will be given the opportunity to explore counselling supports that meet the emotional, cultural, spiritual, as well as the academic needs of First Nations, Métis and Inuit students that will contribute to school success.
The course begins with the building of awareness through learning about community and surroundings and then progresses to information gathering utilizing those community resources. This information gathering will inform, guide and support candidates as they begin to understand Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Candidates will explore the importance of connections to self, family/community, land, and the world. This course supports inquiry-based learning which honours candidates’ knowledge and contributions through the learning journey. The idea of holistic, cyclical learning is embedded in the foundation of this course based on the Medicine Wheel (Anishinaabe) as the organizing structure and the Two Row Wampum (Haudenosaunee) as the guiding philosophy.
Withdrawal/Refund Schedule:
- End of first week of class: 100% (minus $50 admin fee)
- End of second week of class: 75% refund (minus $50 admin fee)
- End of third week of class: 50% refund (minus $50 admin fee)
- End of the fourth week of class: 25% refund (minus $50 admin fee)
- After the fifth week of class: 0% refund
- Last day to withdraw without academic penalty: After the 8th week of class
Teachers certified with the Ontario College of Teachers are eligible to take AQ courses. Ontario B.Ed students may take courses prior to membership with OCT, if they have met all the requirements to graduate and if they have applied to the OCT for a Certificate of Qualification.
Special permission may be granted by SNP to allow those without teacher qualifications to enrol.
Candidates must be qualified for admission according to Regulation 184-97 of the Ontario College of Teachers Act.
Certification will be recommended to the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) for those candidates who successfully complete the course, and who hold membership with OCT, and who hold a valid or interim Certificate of Qualification/letter of Eligibility.
Registered with the Ontario College of Teachers
Program Fee: $685 (includes a $50 non-refundable admin fee)
Non-certified teachers will be considered for admission on a case-by-case basis.
Application Fee: $30.00
Six Nations Polytechnic accepts the following options for program and application fee payments: Credit (Visa, Mastercard), e-Transfer
Next Steps
Program Contact
admissions@snpolytechnic.com
(519) 445-0023 ext. 6226