• Career Centre  Visit Career Centre and find out about the services and opportunities available to you.
• The FESA Facebook employment page
• The York U Mentoring and Teaching Resource Room
• The Faculty of Education  News & Events feed

UPADATE January 6, 2022
In December, students were notified winter and full year courses (Y or FW)  will be switched to remote until Jan. 23. 2022.  YU has since made the decision to further delay most in-person activities in the winter term:

• All courses will be delivered in remote format until Jan. 31. 2022. There are some exceptions and students in those courses will have already been notified by their course instructor.
• Food on campus will only be available for takeout and in accordance with provincial guidance, dedicated dining spaces will be unavailable for use.
• Libraries are offering contactless curb-side pickup only, with few exceptions, effective Jan. 10.

IMPORTANT DATES

• The University is CLOSED from Friday, Dec. 24 to Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Administrative offices will reopen (most will be remote)  Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 and  Winter term classes resume Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. For exceptions, visit Important Dates.
• Visit the BEd Program Calendars to see when you're back to class https://edu.yorku.ca/current-students/undergraduate/
• Fees for Winter undergraduate course enrolments for Year (Y) and Winter (W) courses are due Monday, Jan. 10, 2022.

In light of recent guidance issued by the Ontario Government aimed at limiting the spread of the Omicron variant, York will be reducing on-campus activities in December and into January.

The Winter 2022 academic term will commence as planned on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022; however the in-person delivery of courses and on-campus activities are planned to resume on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 (revised date to January 31, 2022).

Between Jan. 10 and Jan. 31, 2022, all classes and support services will be delivered in a remote format unless it is essential that they be delivered in person.

The Faculty of Education BEd Academic Calendars provide weekly information about the BEd courses offered, workshops/information sessions planned and holiday breaks.  Look at the cohort/certification you are studying and students will see the monthly schedule.https://www.yorku.ca/edu/students/undergraduate-programs/bed-program-calendars/

York U. Better Together - Return to campus and York's Vaccination Mandate   Students need to visit the YU Better Together website to get up-to-date information. Visit Current Students  https://www.yorku.ca/bettertogether/category/student-updates/current-students/

YU Screen. For the Winter 2022 term, all York students are required to disclose their vaccination status on regardless of your current location and whether or not you are seeking access to the campus. Disclosure of vaccination status includes unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, fully vaccinated or seeking an exemption from vaccination.

Finding your way around campus in January

1. What you need to know and do before coming to campus: https://currentstudents.yorku.ca/start-strong/campus-access
2. Find your way to classes and get familiar with the campus - York U. Keele campus Map: https://maps.info.yorku.ca/files/2013/02/KEELE_Map_Colour.pdf and Glendon Campus https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/about/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/GLENDON_Map_June-2020-Colour.pdf

Faculty of Education BA and BEd courses will be offered  in a number of buildings.  Look at your course schedule to see where your courses are being offered and check the map for location.  Classroom location could change by January 24th, so check regularly for any updates.  BA students will also be in courses that are not offered by Faculty of Education, and those classes can be in other locations on the campus.

AC = Accolade East   #92
ACW = Accolade West #93
BC = Norman Bethune College #11
DB = Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building # 39
FC = Founders College #50
MC = McLaughlin College #51
TM - Tait McKenzie Centre #4
WC = Winters College #53
YL = York Lanes #26YH = York Hall #6 (Glendon campus)
PFH = Proctor Field House (Gym)  #3  (Glendon campus)

Announcement - OCT Temporary Certificate
The Faculty of Education will be sending out a E communication to Year 2 BEd students mid to end of January 2022.  Please visit OCT for information that was recently posted   https://www.oct.ca/becoming-a-teacher/requirements/temporary-certificate

(REMINDER) YEAR TWO BEd – ED Electives
TCs were encouraged to enroll in the education elective courses in the summer session.  If you weren’t able to complete the required electives (EDUC) by summer 2021, the following electives have and will be posted. Please note, ED/EDUC 2300 section M has been cancelled and students who were enrolled in the course have been removed.  Communication was sent on Oct 6, 2021 and another email to those not enrolled yet, the week of October 18th.     See below for listing of electives/seats still available.

ED/EDUC 2720 3.00   Teaching English in International Contexts   Section N ~  Catalogue #: P26U01.  This is a LITERACY elective    (only a few seats available)

ED/EDUC 2594 3.00 Hands-on Mathematics to Support Interdisciplinary Learning   Section N ~     Catalogue #: Z38B01   Open to all year 2 BEd students and will meet Math elective for PJ, JI and Glendon FSL students.  IS students may also enroll and use as OPEN elective.

ED/EDUC 3600 3.00    Literacy and Culture  Section N ~ Catalogue # U91P01 Open to all year 2 BEd students and will meet Literacy elective for PJ, JI students and CEC students.  IS students may also enroll and use as OPEN elective.

ED/EDUC 3592 3.00 Teaching for Understanding in Math Section N   ~ Catalogue #:   X73G01  Open to all year 2 BEd students and will meet MATH elective for PJ, JI students and CEC students.  IS students may also enroll and use as OPEN elective. (only a few seats available)

Maximum numbers of electives required to completed for the BEd:

• Primary/Junior candidates must complete three elective courses - one math based, one language/literacy based and one open choice to satisfy their BEd degree requirements.
• Junior/Intermediate candidates must complete a total of two elective courses - one Math or Literacy based and one open choice to satisfy their BEd degree requirements.
• Intermediate/Senior and Technological Education candidates must complete a total of three elective courses to satisfy their BEd degree requirements.
• Glendon FSL BEd –  PJ and JI one Math elective and IS one open elective