This website educates people who work with children about collaborative problem-solving. This is a method used when working with students with behavioural needs but can be used when working with any students.
Think:kids
ETFO Professional Learning in the Early Years
This photo and video-content driven website contains professional learning for educators teaching in the Kindergarten context. Topics include observation of children, mathematics, conversations, and classroom tours.
ETFO Professional Learning in the Early Years
The Heart and Art of Teaching and Learning blog
This blog shares the learning journey of educators like you who are living the heart and art of teaching and learning with students. Teachers share their advice on classroom layout, building inclusion, classroom management, report cards and much more!
The Heart and Art of Teaching and Learning blog
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.
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
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.
Including Students with Exceptionalities
OCUP Special Education Companion (2002)
This document is a companion piece to the now defunct Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner. It has a great deal of information regarding identification and placement, IEPs, accommodations and modifications, teaching strategies, specific skill strategies, and assessment.
OCUP Special Education Companion (2002)
The Educational Implications of ADHD
This article examines research into treatment outcomes, and teaching practices that work with students who have ADHD.
The Educational Implications of ADHD