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“...provide training and deliver professional development programs in the
areas of its expertise...”
It is either as an institution or through one or many of its staff members that
Centre Jules-Léger is currently involved or has been involved in the past,
in the following training initiatives:
Demonstration School: Past
- Up
until it was transfered to the Ministry of
Education
from
the
University of Ottawa, the Demonstration School
component
of Centre Jules-Léger had
maintained extensive
training sessions for the benefit of teachers
across
the
province.
From 1980 to
1995,
it may have
trained
in excess of 3,375 teachers in such areas
as learning
disabilities,
learning skills,
metacognitive processes as they apply to
learning, verbal
communication,
reading,
writing, mathematics,
problem-solving, ADHD and the learning disabled.Training
sessions
were
held both
on site and within the province as the later
format
proved
to be more cost-efficient for the school
boards.
- Through all of these years, because of their
known association
to Centre Jules-Léger by
the teaching community,
some of
the staff from the Demonstration School have
been
very active
in delivering parts of or
most of the Specialist
Certificate in Special Education delivered
by
the Faculty of Education
at the University
of Ottawa.
Demonstration School: Current
- Under its current school improvement
plan, training is ongoing at
Centre Jules- Léger. Both teachers
and residence counsellors
and to
some extent,
parents have or
will shortly be involved in training
such as the
teaching of reading, writing, mathematics,
the connection between language and
writing, adaptive
technology. Through a survey brought up by their School Council,
parents have
indicated that they wished to be better informed on the role of language
in learning, on the issues of self-esteem
and on the reinsertion process
of children leaving the Demonstration
School
for the community school.
- As
are many
other
educational
institutions
across the province of Ontario, Centre
Jules-Léger is a registered provider
under
the
Ontario College of Teachers. It has
so
far
delivered such credited courses as the teaching
of Reading, Writing
and
Mathematics
under the general heading of Special Education.
Centre Jules-
Léger is currently awaiting approval for other courses
such as classroom
management and LSQ.
Residential Services : Past
Management
and
team
leaders
from
the
Residential
Services
have
been
instrumental
in
establishing
a partnership
with
La
Cité Collégiale
which was
successful in delivering, on site, a four-year training program for
our
deaf
residential counselors. As recently as June of 2002, seven of our counselors
were
the
first
ever
francophone
deaf
counselors
to
graduate
from
this
tailored
program leading to a Child and Youth Care Worker Certification.
Provincial School: Past
- The Provincial School at Centre Jules-Léger,
has
been
the
catalyst of many
training
initiatives
in the areas of Deaf Education and Blind
Education, mostly
under
a
partnership with
the
Faculty of Education of the University
of Ottawa.
It
has, in the
past years, been the essential component of the Teaching the
Blind Specialist,
both by providing a curriculum compliant with the guidelines
set by the
Ontario College of Teachers and providing the expertise of its
own staff to deliver the program.
- Also in partnership with the University
of
Ottawa,
the
Provincial
School
was
a major
player
in
establishing
a teacher training
program,
tailored
to
the
needs
of
some of
our
deaf
staff wishing to make
a career
in
teaching.Three
years
ago, eight
students
graduated
from this program, making them
some
of
the
first
francophone
deaf
teachers
ever
to be certified under the
Ontario
College
of
Teachers.
Provincial
School: Current
- The
Provincial
School
at
Centre
Jules-Léger
is
currently
striving
to
maintain
its
leadership
in
the
Teacher
of
the
Blind
Certification
and
hopefully
will
be invited
by the University of Ottawa to provide Part II of that
Specialist
next
summer.
- The
Provincial
School
is
also
working
on
a curriculum
which
would
set
the basis
of
a Teacher
of
the
Deafblind
Specialist
tentatively
set
to begin
in
the summer of 2003, pending approvals by the Senate of the
University
of Ottawa.
- Newly
graduated
deaf
teachers
from
the
Provincial
School
are
being
accomodated,
on
site,
jointly
by
the
University
of
Ottawa
and
Centre
Jules-
Léger, in undergraduate studies leading to a Bachelor’s
Degree.This exceptional program will allow our deaf teachers
to ultimately maintain
their
certification with the Ontario College of Teachers.
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