Bachelor of Education

Why Pursue Teaching at Tyndale?

Teachers make a difference in the lives of their students. They interact with learners every day, and can significantly motivate them to grow through self-knowledge, skills development and citizenship. Tyndale’s BEd program will prepare you well for this rewarding career.

Here are eight reasons to choose Tyndale!

Build Strong Literacy and Mathematics Foundations
Leave with More Than a Degree
Learn to Teach Well and Stay Well
Practicum Options
Receive One-on-One Support
Experience Faith-based Learning
Build Knowledge about Indigenous Peoples, Perspectives, and Experiences
Flourish in a Supportive, Close-Knit Community

Build Strong Literacy and Mathematics Foundations

Though the province now requires shorter teacher education programs, Tyndale has kept every literacy and mathematics pedagogy course at full length. You will graduate knowing how to teach reading, writing, and mathematics to the diverse group of learners in your classroom, and build on what each learner already brings.

Leave with More Than a Degree

Stand out as a newly certified educator with an Additional Qualification (AQ) tailored to your professional goals. Whether you choose Environmental Education, Special Education, or another area of interest, Tyndale makes it possible to build specialized expertise. As both an accredited teacher education program and AQ provider, Tyndale enables you to earn this valuable credential just after your degree is conferred, helping you enter the profession with recognized knowledge and a clear professional focus.

Learn to Teach Well and Stay Well

You will complete a full-day certification in social and emotional learning. In the professional seminar course, which meets before and after each practicum teaching block, you will focus on strategies for building emotional vocabulary and the social capital that can sustain a teacher throughout a career. Tyndale believes that caring for your physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health is part of becoming a teacher, and this commitment is embedded throughout your courses.

Practicum Options

Complete your first two practicum placements in your choice of nine public and Catholic school boards in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. For your third practicum, choose to remain within the school board of your choice, apply to complete Practicum 3 in a private, alternative, French language, or faith-based school, or apply to the Northern Placement Option and complete three weeks of your teaching block in a First Nations community in northern Ontario.

Receive One-on-One Support

Your assigned faculty advisor will provide mentorship and guidance throughout the program, visiting your practicum placement schools multiple times and providing the support and encouragement you need to integrate the theory learned in courses with the practicalities of the classroom.

Experience Faith-based Learning

You will join teacher candidates of different backgrounds and faiths, including some who do not identify with any faith tradition. What you believe and value impacts who you are as an educator. Every course you take at Tyndale will provide an opportunity to consider your personal beliefs, including beliefs about students, learning, faith, and morals. You will reflect on how your beliefs shape who you are in the classroom, and how you can positively impact learners of different abilities, socio-economic status, race, language, faith, culture, gender, and sexual orientation.

Build Knowledge about Indigenous Peoples, Perspectives, and Experiences

As part of addressing the calls to action for educators in Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Report, Tyndale maintains relationships with several Indigenous community members. Indigenous scholars will visit almost every course you take at Tyndale, providing an integrated approach to address particular course content from an Indigenous perspective. Upholding a commitment to Truth and Reconciliation is one of the professional standards you will be accountable to as an Ontario Certified Teacher, and Tyndale helps you do this work in relationship.

Flourish in a Supportive, Close-Knit Community

At Tyndale, meaningful connections are part of the everyday experience. With faculty offices just a short walk away, it is easy to drop in with a question or seek advice. Between classes, gather in the community kitchens for complimentary coffee and shared meals, or to work with peers on group projects. Chapel services are held twice a week, and the chapel remains open throughout the day for prayer and reflection. In good weather, pick up one of the School of Education's picnic quilts and take your break under the trees by the ravine.