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
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.
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.
Scratch
Teach students to code with Scratch – a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
Differentiation Is / Differentiation is Not Infographic Poster
This infographic poster looks at the definition of differentiation in terms of what it is and what it is not.
Differentiation Is / Differentiation is Not Infographic Poster
How to Make a Quick and Easy 8 Page Mini-Book From One Piece of Paper
Silent instructions on how to make a simple, quick & easy mini-book out of one piece of paper. Very fun for beginning writers and readers to make their own little book.
How to Make a Quick and Easy 8 Page Mini-Book From One Piece of Paper