My qualifications are in Technological Education. Which Additional Qualifications (AQs) can I take?
If you have qualifications in Technological Education subjects, your Certificate of Qualification and Registration enables you to take several AQs, including any in Schedule C.
If you hold an undergraduate degree, you can take an AQ in the Primary, Junior, Intermediate or Senior Divisions with subjects from Schedule A.
Technology teachers with any combination of education and experience can complete courses from Schedule B in any broad-based technology with certain provisions if:
- The program is for a Grade 9 and 10 AQ, you do not need any specific prerequisites beyond the technological qualifications you already hold.
- The AQ is for a Grade 11 and 12 technology, you will need at least one year of work experience and competence in that technology.
You can also complete the following three-session AQs from Schedule D:
- Actualisation linguistique en français / Programme d’appui aux nouveaux arrivants
- Anti-Black Racism
- Co-operative Education
- English as a Second Language
- Guidance and Career Education
- Holocaust Education and Countering Antisemitism
- Inclusive Classroom
- Integration of Information and Computer Technology in Instruction
- Media
- Music – Instrumental
- Music – Vocal, Intermediate and Senior
- Music – Vocal, Primary and Junior
- Reading
- Religious Education in Catholic Schools
- Special Education
- Teacher Leadership
- Teaching Students Who Are Blind
- Teaching Students Who Are Deaf-Blind
- Visual Arts
- Writing
In addition, teachers with technological qualifications who hold a degree can complete:
- Principal’s Qualifications providing they meet all the other prerequisites identified in regulation.
- Supervisory Officer’s Qualification providing they meet all the other prerequisites identified in regulation.
Pathways to Leadership for Technological Education Teachers Without a Degree
Teachers with technological qualifications who do not hold an acceptable postsecondary degree can enroll in Primary Education, Part 1 from Schedule D or Junior Education, Part 1 from Schedule D to satisfy one of the below prerequisites for Part 1 of the Principal’s Qualifications Program (PQP).
Upon completion of Part 1 of the PQP, these OCTs are eligible to enroll in Part 2.
Technological education teachers who:
- hold qualifications in Grades 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 in a technological education subject listed in Schedule B
- have a minimum of five years of successful classroom teaching experience verified by an appropriate Supervisory Officer
- do not hold an acceptable postsecondary degree.
Prerequisites for PQP Part 1
- Primary Education, Part 1 OR Junior Education, Part 1
AND
- Two Specialists OR One Specialist and one Honour Specialist OR Principal’s Development Course, as well as one Specialist or one Honour Specialist
Technological education teachers who:
- hold qualifications in Grades 9 and 10 in a technological education subject listed in Schedule B
- have a minimum of five years of successful classroom teaching experience verified by an appropriate Supervisory Officer
- do not hold an acceptable postsecondary degree.
Prerequisites
- Supervisory Officer attestation of candidate’s teaching experience in Grades 11 and 12 in a technological education subject listed in Schedule B
AND
- Primary Education, Part 1 OR Junior Education, Part 1
AND
- Two Specialists OR One Specialist and one Honour Specialist OR Principal’s Development Course, as well as one Specialist or one Honour Specialist
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