EDUC 9N783 - Green Industries, Grades 9/10
Programming Description
Green Industries is one of the broadest and most dynamic subjects within Technological Education, offering unique opportunities to support student growth through wellness, sustainability, science, cultural practice, ecological stewardship, economics, social justice, and both extractive and regenerative agriculture. In this course, you will explore how to design and deliver engaging Green Industries programs that center hands-on learning, inquiry, system thinking, and experiential education while responding to the diverse strengths, identities, and needs of learners. You will examine how curriculum expectations, professional standards, and Ministry policies shape safe, inclusive, and future-focused learning environments, while connecting classroom practice to emerging environmental and agricultural perspectives, evolving technologies, and meaningful career pathways.Learner Outcomes
What you’ll learn and do in Green Industries, Grades 9 and 10:
● Analyse current Ontario curriculum, policies and frameworks to inform program planning and instruction in Green Industries.
● Evaluate theories of learning, teaching and identity formation to support inclusive and learner-centered pedagogies.
● Apply ethical standards, professional standards and legal responsibilities to program design, assessment and practice in Green Industries.
● Design safe, equitable and inclusive learning environments and activities that embrace diversity and well-being and encourage student voice.
● Integrate Indigenous histories, perspectives and knowledge systems meaningfully into teaching and learning processes.
● Demonstrate technical proficiency with tools, equipment, ecological processes and industry practices related to Green Industries.
● Incorporate environmentally sustainable practices, policies and pedagogies into teaching and program design.
● Assess learner growth using equitable and transparent assessment and evaluation practices that reflect Ontario curriculum principles and expectations.
● Facilitate experiential learning opportunities that link classroom instruction to authentic industry contexts and career pathways.
● Engage in critical reflection, collaborative inquiry and professional learning to strengthen practice and advance leadership in Green Industries.
Notes
TIME COMMITMENT: As required by the Ontario College of Teachers all additional qualification courses are 125 hours. This time allotment includes ongoing and active participation in the online discussion area and the completion of readings, assignments and tasks.
OSAP Eligibility: This course qualifies for OSAP funding as a micro-credential.
Prerequisites
1) OCT MEMBERSHIP
2) WORK EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION
• Educators with existing technological education qualifications do not need to provide additional documentation.
• Educators without technological education qualifications need:
• a Certificate of Qualification and Registration
• five years of work experience, including business or industrial experience, or a combined total of five years’ post-secondary education and work experience, including:
• at least two years’ business or industrial work experience, at least four months of which were continuous, and post-secondary education acceptable to the OCT consisting of:
• an apprenticeship program acceptable to the OCT, and…
• work experience demonstrating competency based on an assessment of advanced skills and knowledge, related to a technological education subject listed in Schedule B of the regulation.
• *Experience teaching Green Industries Grades 9/10 is accepted as part of the five-year requirement at a ratio of two years experience to one year of the required total e.g., four years teaching Green Industries Grades 9/10 is equal to two years of the required five years experience.
• Eligible work experience must use skills and knowledge related to the subject and may include business or industrial experience in the following areas:
• Arborist
• Farming
• Fish hatchery
• Floristry/gardening/botany
• Forestry
• Greenhouse
• Landscaping & design
• Sawmill
• Surveying
• Veterinarian
• Use of GPS equipment
• Interfacing (connecting electronics to the computer and controlling it from software, input and output, such as switches and LED lights)
*One year of work experience can be interpreted as 1,700 hours of work experience.
**If you were self-employed, you must submit an affidavit and a business license to confirm years of work experience.
