TEACHING LAW IN HIGH SCHOOL
Concurrent BA JURI / BEd
Laurentian University offers a concurrent BA / BEd. The BA is in a discipline of your choice, which can include Law and Justice. Only primary/junior and junior/intermediate divisions for the BEd are currently offered, but law is taught only in grades 11 and 12 so a senior qualification is necessary to teach it. However, upon completion of the BEd you can immediately do an Additional Basic Qualification (ABQ) Senior with Law as a teachable. It is offered in distance formats at various times of the year, both as an intensive course and over a full term, by OISE, Queens and Western, and may sometimes be offered in class as a spring/summer course at other universities. You could take it immediately after graduation in the spring or summer, or during the year following graduation while teaching full time.
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/aq/Additional_Qualifications_Course_Offerings.html
[look for Law in drop down menus, online ABQ]
http://coursesforteachers.ca/OurCourses/ABQSenior/Law.html
[Queen’s University, online ABQ]
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/programs/continuing-education/aq/courseDescr/CourseDescr.asp?CRSE_ID=012926 [Western, online ABQ]
BEd after a BA JURI
If you are applying to attend teacher’s college after completion of a four year degree in Law and Justice and want to teach high school then you should apply to York University as they have Law as a teachable. They require 36 credits in Law for the first teachable, including at least 6 credits in criminal law, a course in philosophy of law and a course in criminology.
If you are admitted to another program that does not have law as a teachable and are unable to meet the requirements for senior teachables, then do junior/intermediate and then upgrade as explained under the Concurrent BA / BEd above.
Many teachers colleges have “Individual and Society” as a teachable for which many courses you take for Law and Justice may count, e.g. Psychology and Sociology, so that completing even a 30 credit first teachable within a Law and Justice degree should not be difficult. It is also possible to plan your electives carefully so that you can meet the requirements for other senior teachables while completing a Law and Justice degree so that you can do an intermediate/senior qualification immediately. With that you would be able to teach law in high school if the opportunity arose – it is not necessary that you have declared it as a teachable in teachers college. It is in any case wise to have a good second teachable in a subject you enjoy as few if any schools would be able to provide a full teaching load in law.
If you are in 3rd or 4th year when you decide you want to go to teachers college, and you have the appropriate grades, but cannot quite complete the teachables (apart from law), you can do spring session courses to complete what you need.