Registration will OPEN SOON for our 2024-2025 program
(If you are a B.Ed. Student and are looking to complete completed an ASP please email teachpeterborough@gmail.com).
TEACH Outside the Box Social Justice Certificate Program and Alternative Placement
Open to:
- community educators and formal educators
- Trent B.Ed Teacher Candidates (Alternative Settings Placement)
- Trent Teacher Education Stream students
- all others interested in Social Justice Education
TEACH Outside the Box is a unique opportunity for teacher candidates and community educators to participate in a series of interactive workshops and an optional community placement. At TEACH Outside the Box you will be part of a collaborative network of educators, learning alongside your peers and from community partners as you build your own social justice education toolbox!
Highlights of TEACH Outside the Box:
- Exploring critical education theories from various perspectives (global, Indigenous, anti-oppression, popular education, the arts)
- Engaging with different ways to teach (in and outside of the classroom)
- Puts theory into practice with an optional community-based alternative placement.
Syllabus – Workshops (2023-2024) –
Format : 40 hours between workshops, meetings, and tasks
Orientation (Tuesday October 3rd 2023- Trent University – Room TBD)
Saturday Workshops (@ Sadleir House in Peterborough from 9:30am-3:30pm – mandatory).
Workshop #1: Education for Change: The Theory and Practice of Social Justice Education (October 14th 2023)
Workshop #2: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning
(November 4th 2023) Outdoors Location: (Camp Kawartha by Trent University)*
Workshop #3: Anti-Racism in the Classroom: Building Resilience through Uncomfortable Conversations (January 13th 2024)
Workshop #4: Queer Intersectionality in the Classroom (February 3rd 2024)
Workshop #5: The TEACH-In – Program Consolidation and Celebration (March 23rd 2024)
Additional Dates (TBA)
Four, one hour Reflection, Action and Dialogue Sessions (RADS) on ZOOM on a weeknight following each workshop (Dates TBA, and will be recorded).
E-mail teachpeterborough@gmail.com for more details or to answer any questions!
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Land Acknowledgement
We respectfully acknowledge that we are located on the Treaty 20 Michi Saagiig territory and in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig and Chippewa Nations, collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations, which include: Curve Lake, Hiawatha, Alderville, Scugog Island, Rama, Beausoleil, and Georgina Island First Nations.
We respectfully acknowledge that the Williams Treaties First Nations are the stewards and caretakers of these lands and waters in perpetuity and that they continue to maintain this responsibility to ensure their health and integrity for generations to come.
We are all Treaty people.
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