In this section you’ll find information that will assist you in your role as an Occasional Teacher. It isn’t subject specific but is related to Ontario’s Schools. This is where you’ll find information about classroom management, character education, and safe schools to name but three topics.
Classroom supports
Types of Student Inquiry
This infographic outlines the different levels of student inquiry.
We Were So Far Away: The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools
We Were So Far Away presents the stories of brave Inuit residential school survivors in a virtual exhibit. Includes a timeline, and a list of suggested resources.
We Were So Far Away: The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools
We are the Children: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools
This online exhibit explores the history and legacy of Canada’s Residential School System through Survivor stories, archival photographs, and documents to assist in promoting understanding and reconciliation in Canada about residential schools.
We are the Children: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools
Reading Strategies Poster
This poster, which could be turned into an anchor chart, lists 7 reading strategies with explanations: predict, visualize, question, connect, identify, infer, and evaluate.
Through Mala’s Eyes
This series of lesson plans, built around the first-person narrative of a 12-year-old Inuk boy, will help you and your students appreciate life in the Inuit community of Salluit, in the northern part of Nunavik, Northern Quebec. Although designed for students from 9 to 12 years of age, some of the lesson plans and strategies in this unit can be adapted for other grade levels.
ETFO Members Sharing in Assessment
ETFO Members Sharing in Assessment website provides teachers with a collection of tools and examples to enhance this ongoing process. Exploring the website will allow teachers the opportunity to choose or adapt tools that meet the needs of their students and their daily instruction practice.
Switch Zoo
Make new animals by switching the heads, legs and tails of 142 different creatures
Egg Timer
A simple countdown timer.
End of the Year Activities and Lessons
This website will provide you with great resources to help wrap up your school year in style. Ideas include: poems, projects, craft ideas, lesson plans, writing activities, and internet resources.
5 Quick Classroom-Management Tips for Novice Teachers
This article suggests five strategies you can start using right away for classroom management.