Differentiated Instructional Approach
Canadian Global School is committed to promoting and accomplishing a differentiated learning environment, focusing on personalized education for elementary and high school programs. We offer well-curated courses to heighten innovation in education, and we deliver a learning environment that is focusing on constant expansion and provides the expertise and skills for our students.
Canadian Global School’s Evolving Approach To Education
The real world is complex and theoretical knowledge is not sufficient. Students need qualified teachers to help them explore new skills and find answers to be prepared for our always-changing world. Having collaborative and creative problem-solving in the classroom has its limits. It can be often restrained by curriculum development.
However, Canadian Global School is improving the classic pathway of education to invest in the development of integrated solutions to advance pedagogy and knowledge, allowing the next cohort of students to become independent, strategic and successful learners.
The Canadian Global School Program is part of the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), and our well-developed curriculum, joined with our differentiated Approach to Learning, includes the fundamental resources required to guide our teachers into international partner schools. Our curriculum provides the tools and support necessary for our students to reach their optimal level of challenge for learning in a constantly changing world.
Our Differentiated Approach to Learning follows the Growing Success model of Assessment & Evaluation which includes: Learning skills and work habits, Making connections with Real-World issues, Personalized teaching style and evaluation, customized pathways and world life skills. We provide high-quality educational content to support our international partner schools to execute our program efficiently while welcoming their local expertise in education. This approach helps transform our students and encourages the “development of learning skills and work habits needed to succeed in school and in life begins early in a child’s schooling. As students move through the grades, they develop and then consolidate their learning skills and work habits in preparation for postsecondary education and the world of work.” (Growing Success, 2010)
Learning skills and work habits
The development of learning skills and work habits is an integral part of each students’ learning. The Key Learning Skills and Work Habits evaluated and reported on include: responsibility, organization, independent work, collaboration, initiative and self-regulation. Individuals who use learning skills and work habits can develop synthesis and analytical skills, and evaluate complex data and use this knowledge to solve queries, generate creative approaches, show insightful argumentation, and assess overall ideas. This encourages critical thinking and helps face the future.
Course Curriculum and Educational Process
Assessments & Evaluation of student performance
Teacher Instructional Resources
Applying to Global Universities as OSSD students
Making connections with Real-World issues
Making connections with real-world issues is an educational method by which individuals engage in sharing solutions to a problem of concern to them or their community. Students learn and gain knowledge by taking measures to fully grasp the problem, research from current sources, and apply their understanding to propose and communicate solutions. When making connections with real-world issues, individuals acquire rich, in-depth subject knowledge and use thinking skills practically.
At Canadian Global School, connections with real-world issues are integrated into all courses of study, allowing students to unite their learning in different subjects, and student-centred thinking and innovation methodologies. This type of learning inspires students to identify and solve significant economic and social consequences and provide scenarios to improve their high-order thinking skills further.
Course Curriculum and Educational Process
Motivating educational content, projects, online interactive activities and projects are designed to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned to new situations. They investigate situations, solve problems, and formulate innovative answers. In STEM courses, particularly, students learn to open their creative capabilities through problem-based learning and practicing through Design Thinking Processes.
Assessments & Evaluation of student performance
Project-based assessments equip students with the opportunity to show their knowledge and application of higher-order thinking skills through real-world problem solving and design thinking processes.
Teacher Instructional Resources
Our course outlines guide teachers on the approaches and methods to motivate learners through the problem solving and design thinking process, including a procedure to lead problem-based learning, form questions, prompt student thinking and contribute with constructive feedback. Differentiated instructional resources also provide teachers with additional material to adjust to individual learning needs.
Personalized teaching style, scaffolding and customized evaluation
Each individual has different forces and learning styles and a flexible approach is necessary for today’s international world. Understanding student strengths and needs will enable the teacher to plan effective instruction and meaningful assessments. Throughout this course, the teacher will continually observe and assess the students’ eagerness to learn, their interests, and their preferred learning styles and individual learning needs.
Through differentiated instructional approaches, teachers create successful learning experiences by personalizing instructions to students’ individual needs.
In the customized Canadian Global School Program, we acknowledge and consider the uniqueness of each individual. We believe each student can thrive in the program and reach their greatest potential with a personalized teaching style, scaffolding and customized evaluation. Differentiated instruction is provided by offering diverse content, instructional strategies and learning environments. In addition, scaffolded evaluations give students opportunities to determine the work outputs that align with their strengths and the optimal way to demonstrate their learning.
Our customized and personalized curriculum provides a wide range of educative formats (interactive prompt, video, audio, infographics, virtual simulation, online quiz and more) and learning activities (projects, digital outputs, essay, discussion posts, self-assessment and others) around essential notions to satisfy all learners and allow them to understand learning content using their strengths.
Canadian Global School OSSD assessments allow students to choose how to show their learning according to their strengths and interest. For example, students may choose written forms such as essays, reports, and notes; visual forms such as PowerPoint presentations and digital posters; or audio-visual forms such as podcasts, oral performances or dramatic productions.
Each CGS-Canada lesson includes differentiated educational resources and strategies for teachers to choose from to support student learning. Our curriculum also provides evaluating rubrics for teachers to assess student learning at different stages of the learning process and adjust and scaffold when needed.
Customized Pathways
Customized pathways allow students to take control of their learning process. It is also a student-centred process where students and teachers work together with alignment to core curriculum standards. In collaboration with our international partner schools, we offer diverse curriculum and learning possibilities to permit students to select courses and experiences to create their customized pathway, focusing on areas of interest and strength and promoting skills necessary to meet their needs university objectives and career goals.
We encourage students to exercise strength-based learning. OSSD university admission criteria also support our customized pathways by allowing students to select the courses that consider their best abilities. With a personalized course pathway, students are given information, skills, and competencies to make informed choices and take control of their goals.
Course Curriculum and Educational Process
Assessments & Evaluation of student performance
Teacher Instructional Resources
World life skills
To have world life skills is to be presented with the skills, attitudes, and values of international citizenship and be aware of the learning and career opportunities around the globe. Accordingly, our future leaders can view problems and opinions from all viewpoints, show an understanding and recognition of other cultures and perspectives and recognize the role they have in the world. The students are motivated to participate in and contribute effectively to the evolving world.
Canadian Global School curriculum is developed to ensure the development of world life skills. It is an integral part of our lessons—combining culture, economics, and opinions while providing possibilities for students to understand all perspectives on a variety of subjects.
Canadian Global School OSSD assessments allow students to choose how to show their learning according to their strengths and interest. For example, students may choose written forms such as essays, reports, and notes; visual forms such as PowerPoint presentations and digital posters; or audio-visual forms such as podcasts, oral performances or dramatic productions.
Our course outlines and educational materials provide teachers in our worldwide partner schools the options to adjust and apply assessments and activities to reflect various outlooks and differences, at all levels. Courses’ content includes instructional strategies and projects that inspire students to share their thoughts, involve in international citizenship and discover from the rest of the world.
Curriculum
Canadian Global School’s comprehensive curriculum is the foundation for instructional excellence and the success of students across our program. We aim to help students obtain their Ontario Secondary School Diploma allowing them access to the best university and college programs in Ontario and the rest of Canada. Through our innovative teaching resources, students develop higher-order thinking skills which will help pave their path to excellence.
Personalized Learning through a Variety of Courses
Canadian Global School offers a variety of high school OSSD credit courses in diverse disciplines such as:
- ESL
- English
- Languages
- Mathematics
- Science
- Business
- History
- Social Science
Engaging Multimedia Content Supports Differentiated Learning
In Canadian Global School, we use Edsby to deliver our curriculum content in diverse multimedia formats designed to engage and cater to different types of learners. These formats include:
- Text
- Audios
- Videos
- Infographics
- Games
- Animations
- Simulations
- Virtual labs
Canadian Global School's OSSD program
Canadian Global School OSSD Curriculum Highlights
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Teachers also promote HOTS development by utilizing rich learning activities, creating lesson plans, and instructional resources that emphasize HOTS-focused teaching strategies.
Differentiated Learning
- Learning Content: Learning activities range from research, presentation, case studies, gamification, project-based learning and more.
- Teaching Methods: Courses and lessons are designed to support a variety of teaching methods to ensure learnings experiences are engaging, effective and productive. Instruction includes methods such as direct instruction, modelling, questioning, ongoing feedback, and collaborative learning.
- Student Products: Evaluations in our curriculum commonly offer students choices in demonstrating learning outcomes. Students may choose to demonstrate learning in written form (e.g. essays, letters, journals), visual form (e.g. infographics, artwork, presentations), or audio/visual form (orations, video journals, dramatic presentations) according to their strengths and preferences.
Real-World Problem Solving
Progressive, Diverse Evaluation
Student Learning Enhancement
Empowering Teachers in Instructional Excellence
Canadian Global School supports teacher development with rich instructional resources, empowering educators to successfully implement a differentiated curriculum with higher-order thinking skills in the classroom.
Each lesson in the Canadian Global School curriculum offers a detailed lesson plan that was strategically crafted for that lesson. The lesson plans recommend instructional scenarios and corresponding advanced teaching strategies, providing detailed guidance to teachers in developing students’ higher-order thinking skills.
Supplemental teaching resources are also available for each lesson. These resources are tools for teachers, designed to enrich the student learning experience further, reinforce lesson concepts and support diverse learning needs.
Academic Quality Assurance
Canadian Global School ensures that students reach their full potential and helps open new doors to their future through the use of comprehensive quality assurance services and the differentiated learning approach.
Personalized Learning Path Advisory
Program Implementation
Operational Support
Our Student Success Office provides ongoing, in-depth support to international partner school counsellors, from providing updated admissions information for top international universities and programs to supporting individual student applications with university admission offices, and more—ensuring student success is paramount to CGS-Canada and our partners.
Canadian Global School-Accreditation
Canadian Global School is registered as an online school with the Ontario Ministry of Education. In the Canadian Global School Program, Canadian Global School offers a digital curriculum, central evaluation, academic administration, and student learning supports through our digital learning platform under MOE accreditation. In addition, students register through our international partner schools to receive classroom instruction, learning facilitation and local student services with dedicated local staff. This collaborative approach provides enhanced student learning experiences and supports holistic student success.
Canadian Global School provides a series of teacher and administrator training programs to international partner schools to ensure the quality and integrity of program delivery. However, this collaboration does not provide any partner institution with the authority to grant OSSD credits. Canadian Global School does not own any campus or affiliated school overseas that offers our OSSD program. Canadian Global High School collaboration model and compliance are communicated in all program materials. In addition, Canadian Global School has Created Marketing Policies and detailed Marketing Guidelines to direct our international partner schools in marketing compliance.