Classroom supports

Classroom supports

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.

WITS Programs

WITS is a widely-used approach to help create responsive communities for the prevention of peer victimization and bullying. WITS stands for: Walk away, Ignore, Talk it out, Seek help. A separate program exists for both primary and junior learners, each offered in both English and French. Visit their site for free lesson plans, book lists, resource guides, and printables.

WITS

Capacity Building Series

A selection of articles from the Capacity Building Series, a production by the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat to support leadership and instructional effectiveness in Ontario schools.
Writing to Learn
Supporting Numeracy
Getting Started with Student Inquiry
Inquiry-based Learning
Teaching and Learning in the Core French Classroom
Canadian-born English Language Learners
Asking Effective Questions

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.

Ready, Set, Green

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.

How to Deal with Inappropriate Behavior

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.

Head of the Class – Focus on Classroom Management

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.

Classroom Management Techniques for the Short Term OT

How to Plan For Differentiated Instruction

This site contains suggestions for planning, strategies, and instructional activities that can be used to differentiate instruction.

How to Plan For Differentiated 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.

Nine Categories of Modification

IEP Resource Guide

This Ministry of Education document explores the individual education plan (IEP) process. It includes a variety of templates, and samples.

IEP Resource Guide

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.

ETFO’s Special Education Handbook