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
Ready Set Green: Tips, Techniques and Resources from Ontario’s Educators
This document, published by the Ministry of Education, offers practical tools and strategies for environmental education. Resources include project ideas, successful practices, and resources for developing lesson plans.
How to Deal with Inappropriate Behavior
This ETFO document is an excerpt from Classroom Beginnings. It is a list of common student behaviors, i.e. power/revenge, attention seeking, fear of failure, and boredom as well as specific strategies to handle each one.
Head of the Class – Focus on Classroom Management
This ETFO document, written specifically for occasional teachers, provides classroom management strategies, effective discipline techniques, and suggestions for supporting students with different learning styles.
Classroom Management Techniques for the Short Term OT
This action research project was completed as a part of the ETFO Teachers Learning Together (TLT) project by a team from the Niagara Occasional Teacher Local. They examined what the impact was of specific classroom management techniques in a short term occasional teacher’s classroom. They also conducted a literature review and gathered information related to best practice in this area.
How to Plan For Differentiated Instruction
This site contains suggestions for planning, strategies, and instructional activities that can be used to differentiate instruction.
Nine Categories of Modification
This document describes nine strategies that may be used to modify classroom programs. It excerpt from Classroom Beginnings a joint project of ETFO and SDCO.
IEP Resource Guide
This Ministry of Education document explores the individual education plan (IEP) process. It includes a variety of templates, and samples.
ETFO’s Special Education Handbook
These excerpts from ETFO’s excellent special education handbook examine specific areas of student needs and strategies for assisting students with those needs.
Education for All Expert Panel Special Education Needs Grade K-6 (2005)
The report of the Ontario Expert Panel on Literacy and Numeracy Instruction for Students with Special Needs in Grades Kindergarten to Six. This comprehensive document recommends practices, based on research, that would allow Ontario’s teachers to improve and reinforce effective instruction of reading, writing, oral communication, and mathematics to students who have special education needs.
Education for All Expert Panel Special Education Needs Grade K-6
Including Students with Exceptionalities
This document explores the issues related to the inclusion of students with exceptionalities in the regular classroom setting.