Information for future teachers interested in direct-entry teaching programs at both campuses. De l’information pour les futurs enseignants intéressés par les programmes d’éducation avec admission directe offert sur les deux campus.

1. Pre-Education Direct Entry
Education Applicants
Glendon Fall Campus Day
Faculty of Education

2. AGENDA
• Education
• Glendon BA/BEd
• Amended BEd program
• First Year Seminar
• After first year
• Admission Requirements
• Timeline
• Early Admission
• Online Supplementary Form
• Advising
• Practicum
• OCT Requirements for Certification
• Questions

3. EDUCATION
The Faculty of Education offers programs that provide
candidates with the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the
teaching profession as confident and effective teachers.
Graduates of the BEd program can be certified to teach in
Ontario for the following divisions:
Primary/Junior (JK to grade 6)
Junior/Intermediate (Grade 4 to 10)
Intermediate/Senior (Grade 7 to Grade 12)

4. Why BEd (FSL) @ Glendon
• Special niche – preparing future high caliber French as a second language
(FSL) teachers where there is a demand
• French as a second language teaching qualifications built in, FSL
specialized professors
• Some Education courses taught in French – double benefit of improving
your French while learning to teach it!
• Strong cohort identity around passion for FSL language and culture.
• Leader in practicum hours
• Practicum within FSL settings : Core French, Extended French and French
immersion placements (also includes placements in English Language
elementary settings)
• Placements in communities around schools with a focus on FSL
• Bilingual milieu, Campus that inspires well-being,
• Small classes, caring professors who know your name and offer
individualized help.
• Relationship to Keele Campus

5. Preparing to be a French as a second
language teacher
The Concurrent BEd (French) program is placed on ensuring
excellent French language proficiency and a deep
understanding of francophone cultures.
During your BA at Glendon you will :
• Enroll in a one-year study program in a francophone context
or
• Enroll in course equivalents (12.00 credits) in francophone culture as
part of the bachelor’s degree requirements.
or
• Choose a combination of both exchange programs and courses :
This allows you to take advantage of shorter exchange programs
like ORA (French courses + trip to France), Explore (5 weeks in
Québec) or USMB (in France + French language courses +
observation and placement in a bilingual classroom in France) !

6. GLENDON BA + BEd Options
1. Future Core/Extended/Immersion French Teacher
• Pre U - Direct Entry BEd French OR
• Upper year entry Glendon BEd French
• All teaching levels available
• Major in French Studies
2. Future Teacher (Not French)
• Pre U – Direct Entry BEd English
• Upper year entry Keele BEd
• All teaching levels available
(Note: After Glendon BA: opportunity to apply to Consecutive BEd at Keele )

7. BEd program
Over the five or six years of studies Teacher Candidates will take 60
credits of Education courses/practicum experience credits
Admission requirement to the concurrent program
Students will enter the program after completing the BA program
requirements and continue an additional two years of the BEd.
Concurrency rule: graduate with both degrees at same convocation
General degree – PJ and JI
• Year 1 (EDUC), 2 and 3 – UG. Year 3 and 4 ED.
Honours degree – PJ, JI and IS
• Year 1 (EDUC), 2, 3 and 4 – UG. Year 5 and 6 ED.

8. FIRST YEAR SEMINAR - 2020
• ED/EDUC 1000 3.00 Rethinking Schooling:
A "Re Introduction" to Education
• rethink and reflect upon your own experiences with education and learning
• develop an awareness of the transformative and disruptive power of learning
• a more critical understanding of the dynamics of gender, race, ethnicity, class,
sexuality, culture, ability/disability and structures of privilege in knowing and
learning
• 3 credit course goes towards the Glendon degree as an elective
• Taught in French in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere !

9. Maintaining ED program
Successfully complete ED/EDUC 1000 3.00 Rethinking
Schooling with a C+ and achieve an overall C+ in your Glendon
BA program.
Invited to group advising appointments and workshops to
prepare for the BEd. Ensure you’re on track with your studies
when enrolling in the BEd program.

10. Education courses
60 credits of Education courses
Common Foundations Courses (PJ, JI and IS)
• Child Development & Health OR Adolescent Development &
Health
• Foundations of Education
• Inquiries into Learning
• Theory into Practice
• Teaching for Diverse and Equitable Classroom in Ontario
• Content into Practice
• Inclusive Education
• Research into Practice
• Teaching and Learning in French Immersion Settings

11. PJ and JI
PJ and JI (Primary/Junior or Junior/Intermediate)
• Language and Literacy
• Mathematics
• Science and Technology
• Health and Phys Ed
• Social Studies and Culture
• Integration Through Arts
• JI Teaching subject in the Intermediate Division (French)
• Teaching and Learning French in a Core French Context and/or
Extended French
• Teaching and Learning French in an Elementary Classroom
• One elective

12. IS
IS (Intermediate/Senior)
• New Media Literacies and culture
• Teaching 1st Teaching subject (French)
• Teaching 2nd Teaching subject
• Elective 1: free choice
• Elective 2: free choice

13. PRACTICUM EXPERIENCE
Semester 1 and 2
Community based Placement with 8
seminars
First Practicum Placement
(observation)
Semester 3
Second Practicum – Twice a week
and a 2 week block
Semester 4
Third Practicum Placement a 6 week
block
Over 80 days in a school placement

14. Glendon Practicum Experiences
Classroom Placement including Teaching Blocks
• Minimum 80 days in a school
• French Immersion, Core French or Extended French Programs
(Public/Separate schools)
Students will have a community based placement and three
school-based practicum placements under the mentorship of
an Ontario Certified Teacher.

15. OCT REQUIREMENTS FOR
CERTIFICATION
Bachelor Degree & Bachelor of Education

16. ADMISSION CRITERIA

17. 101 OUAC application
• YGJ Faculty of Education (FSL) /Glendon BA
• BA French Studies required as Glendon major for J/I and I/S
teachable and encouraged for P/J
• YYI Faculty of Education (English Keele)/Glendon BA
• BA French Studies encouraged as major for P/J, J/I and I/S
OUAC code creates two applications at YU
1. Concurrent BEd
2. Undergraduate program BA French Studies

18. SUPPLEMENTARY APPLICATION FORM
 Online Supplementary Information Form application
 Available on MyFile www.yorku.ca/myfile
Supplementary Application:
 Basic Information
 Experience Summary
 Experience Profile
 Personal Statement
Two online letters of reference

19. ADMISSIONS: KEY STEPS & TIMELINES
Deadlines:
April 1, 2020
• French Language Assessment April 8, 2020
• Online supplementary Information – MyFile
• Includes experience profile and experience, personal statement
and two online letters of reference
• April 8, 2020 $50.00 supplementary application fee instructions
will be available on MyFile end of January 2020.
Must be conditionally admitted to your Glendon BA by mid April, 2020.
Decisions will be released in early May

20. Early Consideration – BEd French
We are welcoming early round of offers to Glendon Pre-U BEd
applicants
• All deadline steps completed by March 9, 2020
• Complete online supplementary form
• Two online letters of reference,
• French Language Assessment
• Supplementary fee
• Offer of admission Glendon BA program
• Offers of Admission will be extended on April 6-8, 2020.

21. COMMITTEE REVIEW
• A holistic review of applicant files for the Direct Entry
Education supports the faculty’s initiative to recruit, admit
and support individuals who have the potential to become
excellent teachers
• Access Initiative: Applicants who reflect the diversity in our
society and or who have faced systematic barriers in
educational settings but have the potential to be great
teachers

22. TIPS ON PUTTING TOGETHER YOUR
STRONGEST APPLICATION
• Give yourself time to prepare, write, edit your personal statement
and experience profile.
• Show depth of reflection on teaching and learning
• Highlight what are your motivations to learn in a bilingual
program and to teach French and Francophone cultures.
• We value experience in the context of a group, and experience with
children of a similar age to the age group you want to teach
• Prepare it in Word and transfer it into the online form.
• Follow deadlines and directions carefully.
• Try not to leave your French assessment or supplementary
submission until the last minute. Immerse yourself now!

23. ADVISING
MyFile
Accept offer and book advising appointment with the Glendon
Office of Student Programs
Advising
Enrol in ED EDUC 1000 at the time of your Glendon Advising
appointment. Offer letter from Faculty of Education will share
how to enroll in the pre-education course for the Fall 2020
session.

24. QUESTIONS