Direct-Entry-2020 2-Pre-Ed-information-booklet PDF

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York University, Faculty of Education Pre-Education Direct Entry Concurrent Education Thank you for your application and interest in our Pre-Education Direct Entry Teacher Education Program. Please read this information package to assist you with your next steps.

Supplementary Application Deadlines •

April 1, 2020 deadline includes: o Faculty of Education online supplementary application (which includes the Experience Summary and Profile, Personal Statement and two online referee forms (references)).

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April 8, 2020 o Supplementary application fee $50.00 (nonrefundable). Payment is through Eventbrite: https://directentry-facultyofeducation.eventbrite.ca o Glendon BEd French Immersion French Placement Test (applies to Education/Glendon BA OUAC code YGJ).

It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application, fees and all supporting documentation are received by the published deadlines. Applicants must read all instructions carefully. Failure to comply with the admission requirements and deadlines may result in the cancellation of the Pre-Education application. Students who have submitted all required documents by the above deadline dates and received an offer of admission to their Faculty of choice by mid- April 2020 will advance to the Education Admissions committee review. Important: Please note that if you change your subject of major interest but still wish to be considered for the Pre-Education Direct Entry program you must amend your application through the OUAC and select from the Education codes listed in the "101-Instruction Booklet".

The Concurrent Bachelor of Education allows students to work toward their education degree while at the same time completing another York undergraduate degree. Students must be admitted to and eligible to continue in an undergraduate program in one of the York University faculties (Arts, Media, Performance & Design, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Education (BA Educational Studies), Environmental Studies, Health, Science, Lassonde Engineering, or Glendon). The Bachelor of Education degree is awarded only in conjunction with an academic degree. The academic bachelor program, normally requiring three years for completion, will require five years when taken concurrently with the education degree. Similarly, a program normally requiring four years for completion will require six years. Example: Honours York program concurrently with the Teacher Education program (Concurrent BEd) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Undergraduate program and ED/EDUC 1000 3.00 Undergraduate program Undergraduate program Teacher Education program Undergraduate program Teacher Education program

Glendon BA and French Immersion BEd: Year 1 – 4 BA, Year 5 and 6 BEd

ED/EDUC 1000 “Rethinking Schooling” Throughout the first year at university for successful applicants in the Pre-Education option, a three-credit practicum seminar will be required. Students will need to achieve a C+ in ED/EDUC 1000 3.00 credits and maintain an overall average of C+/5.0 in their undergraduate degree to maintain eligibility to continue in the BEd program. After completing ED/EDUC 1000 3.00 “Rethinking Schooling” Students will begin their first year of two years in the BEd program after their third year of university. Students will now enter the program after completing a minimum of 60.00 credits if pursuing a general degree (90.00 credits) with teaching level Primary/Junior or Junior/Intermediate or a minimum of 90.00 credits if pursuing an honours degree (120.00 credits) with teaching level Primary/Junior, Junior/Intermediate or Intermediate/Senior. Please note; Students pursuing the French as a Second BEd at Glendon will begin the first of two years in the BEd after completing their undergraduate program requirements. Offers of Admission Students who have submitted all required documents by the specified deadline dates and received an offer of admission to the Faculty of choice by mid-April will advance to the Education Admissions committee review. Decisions will be sent out second week of May by mail and email. BEd (French as a Second Language) at Glendon Applicants to Glendon French as a Second Language (OUAC code YGJ) are required to do a French Language Placement Test by April 8, 2020. Questions regarding the language assessment, please contact Antoine Ste-Marie at [email protected] or 417-736-2100 ext. 88188 for assistance. Supplementary Application Information Form – Deadline April 1, 2020 You will be required to answer several questions on the supplementary form and submit an experience summary, an experience profile, and a personal statement. Those applicants applying through the Access Initiative are encouraged to reference the individual and/or systematic barriers they have encountered in their personal statement. Please prepare your personal statement and your experience profile before you submit it online. You are encouraged to copy and paste your answers in a simple text editor, like Microsoft Notepad. The MyFile system will not allow you to save and re-edit at a later time. You may login as many times as necessary to read the information, but nothing recorded will be saved until you click “Submit”. If you’ve applied to more than one Bachelor of Education program you only need to fill out one Supplementary Information Form and submit one $50.00 payment. See Supplementary Information Form fee instructions on the last page. Letter of Recommendation (Online Referee Information Form) – Deadline April 1, 2020 Applicants are required to indicate two people who will submit a reference for their application. This person should be able to comment on your ability to work with children/adolescents. Applicants are advised to discuss their plans with potential referees before submitting the referee’s contact information. When you login into MyFile, there is a specific link for you to provide us with your referee’s information (BEd Referee Information Form). Please Note: The online Letter of Reference form will be sent to the referees via email. The Reference is then submitted online by your referee to the Faculty of Education. Copies do not need to be submitted by mail or in person. We encourage applicants to keep in touch with their referees to ensure they receive the online request form. The referees are given two weeks to submit the reference via email from the time they received the online request, however, all references must be in by April 15, 2020 at the very latest.

Faxed or electronic submissions will not be accepted under any circumstances. Selecting a specialized program (optional) The Faculty of Education offers students in the BEd program the opportunity in an additional interest/concentration area along with pursuing the regular Bachelor of Education program: French as a Second Language, Jewish Education, International Specialization and Technological Education. More information is available at http://edu.yorku.ca/program/bachelor of-education/concurrent-bed/ Teaching/Certification Level: • Primary/Junior (JK to grade 6) • Junior/Intermediate (grade 4 – 10) • Intermediate/Senior (grade 7 – 12) Please identify which Teaching Level you are planning to study in the BEd Concurrent program. Information on each of the teaching levels is available at https://calendars.students.yorku.ca/2019-2020/programs/education The faculty of Education understand a student’s interest may change so students are not committed to stay in this level. Access Initiative In keeping with York's commitment to equal access to teacher education, our admissions policies are designed to assess the potential of all candidates, in particular those who have faced individual and/or systemic barriers in educational settings, and in their lives. The Access Initiative is designed to recruit, admit, and support individuals who will make excellent teachers and reflect the diversity of our society. We recognize that certain groups in our society are treated inequitably because of issues related to a number of factors including race, social class, culture, and refugee experience, and we recognize that such biases exist within educational institutions. We invite students from the following underrepresented groups to apply through the Access Initiative: • • •

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Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, Inuit, Status, Non-Status, Aboriginal Ancestry) People with Disabilities (as defined by the Ontario Human Rights Code) Racialized Person (A racialized group is a group of people who may experience social inequities on the basis of their perceived common racial background, colour and/or ethnicity, faith and who may be subjected to differential treatment in the society and its institutions. Examples may include people of African descent, people of Asian descent, Latinos) Other Minoritized Person (Please specify other identity categories that apply to you and have affected your educational experience. For example: people living in poverty; sexual orientation; English Language Learner, refugee or impacted by the refugee experience)

We encourage students who apply through the Access Initiative to also include in their personal statement reference to the individual and/or systemic barriers they have encountered. Explain how learning through these experiences might be valuable when building relationships and working with diverse groups of students. Experience Summary The experience summary asks for the total number of hours of experience in the following categories: Classroom Experience; Work Experience and Volunteer/Community Experience both Related and Not Related to teaching certification level interest. Please note only experiences accumulated up to February 1, 2020 will be considered.

Experience Profile In this section, list the activities you feel are pertinent to your application to the Faculty of Education. Please include start and end dates, number of hours and days per week, locations, contact people and address. As well, for each activity, please describe what you learned from the experience as it relates to teaching and learning. This is restricted to maximum 4000 characters with spaces per box. We suggest that that you type your Experience Profile into a word document and paste into a simple text editor, like Microsoft Notepad before submitting the information. This will allow you to keep your words under the limit and you will have the opportunity to spell check. Experience Profile Examples: Volunteer Classroom – Coop from Sept 2017 to Dec 2017(18 hours per week for 12 weeks, total 216 hours) Child Centred Public School, 1 Academic Road, Lessons, ON, Z1Z 1Z1, Mr. Ed Ucate, (123) 456-7890. I worked as an Education Assistant in Grades 3-4 classes and helped students with cerebral palsy develop gross and fine motor skills using wooden plinth tables and plastic rings. I also helped supervise children with and without disabilities during lunch. I learned how to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team (teacher, physiotherapist, speech pathologist) to reach specific academic goals as well as therapy objectives. I encouraged children to be as independent as possible when they were eating, putting on their coats, and transferring themselves from the floor to their wheelchairs or walkers. I ensured all the students in the classroom were given choices to promote self-esteem. Camp Counselor from July 2017 to August 2017 (15 hours per week for 10 weeks, total 150 hours) Happy Day Camp, 1 Happy Day Avenue, Campground, ON, A9A 9A9, Mrs. Mary Child, (111) 222-3333. As a camp counselor for approximately 10-12 children, ages 6 and 7 years old, I provided childcare supervision and led in ageappropriate activities. I learned to motivate groups of children ages 6-7 and maintain a positive group environment. Camp activities were designed to promote the importance of respecting each other and working cooperatively together. Cooperative activities included craft projects, show and tell, painting a wall mural, and preparing for a presentation for the camp end-of-summer celebration. I learned to organize the children in group activities and lead discussions related to cultural diversity.

Personal Statement In the Personal Statement tell how your experiences with children and adolescents have shaped your understanding of the teaching and learning process in schools and/or in a community setting. Share how the background and educational opportunities have shaped your decision to become a teacher, and the advantages and disadvantages you have experienced. The personal statement is 4000 characters with spaces. We suggest that that you type your personal statement into a word document and paste into a simple text editor, like Microsoft Notepad before submitting the information. This will allow you to keep your words under the limit and you will have the opportunity to spell check. Please note when filling out the supplementary form you may find some technical errors appearing as symbols, this is being resolved and will not affect the information you have submitted. Before submitting the information, you are encouraged to copy and paste your answers in a simple text editor, like Microsoft Notepad. Supplementary Application Fee and Information Applicants will submit the supplementary fee of $50.00 through Eventbrite: The online payment/event system will be open from February 1, 2020 through to April 8, 2020 end of day. Information regarding payment and next steps will be emailed to applicant’s early February 2020. If you have applied to more than one Bachelor of Education program you only need to fill out one Supplementary Information Form and submit one $50.00 payment. For further information and updates on any of our programs, please visit the York U niversity’s Faculty of Education’s web site edu.yorku.ca or contact our office directly. Office of Student Services Concurrent/Consecutive BEd 128 Winters College 416 736-5001

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