Additional Qualification Fall & Winter Registration Open with New Tuition Fees
2010 Fall Additional Qualifications now open for registration. 2011 Winter registration will open in late September. Please note that there is now a new fee structure in place:
| Three-Part AQ | Additional Basic AQ | Honour Specialist | Tech Studies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 675.00 | 675.00 | 725.00 | 725.00 |
Western’s Faculty of Education is well known to teachers for its top quality AQ programs. For more information, including details of a recently reduced fee structure, visit the AQ home page:
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/programs/continuing-education/
Key Information about Additional Qualifications at the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario:
- Western Faculty of Education is releasing a new tuition fee schedule for fall 2010 with greatly reduced tuition for additional qualifications courses for teachers; registration for fall is available now on our website at AQcourses.ca
- Western is a pioneer in the development of online Additional Qualifications courses for teachers; offering the first online AQ course in 1998
- Western offers a wide variety of AQ courses; 150 online offerings ? along with many 3-part programs: Art, Business, Co-Op, ESL, Reading and Special Education; we also offer Technological Education courses; a full range of intermediate and senior courses for teachers who wish to upgrade their teaching areas and Honour specialist courses for those seeking leadership roles in their schools
- All Western AQ courses appear on a Western university transcript and are accredited by the Ontario College of Teachers
- All Western AQ courses are admissible to OSSTF and QECO for salary purposes
- Western AQ students have direct online access to electronic journals through the Western Libraries catalogue
- Candidates taking AQ courses through Western benefit from the research-based focus of a university
- Instructors are highly experienced professionals with expertise in their individual subject areas as well as the pedagogy of online learning
- Twice annually students are offered an opportunity to nominate their AQ Instructor for an Award of Teaching Excellence if they feel the instructor provided an exemplary class experience
- Kathy Gillies and Jane Begy were the award winners for 2009/10 ? we?re proud to have such quality instructors teaching in our program
