Teaching and Professional Resources

Curriculum Planning

• Ontario Ministry of Education Elementary Curriculum Documents
• Ontario Ministry of Education Secondary Curriculum Documents

Lesson, Unit and Long Range Planning

• Check with your CURR instructors about Lesson Planning
• Link to Learning — Ontario Teacher's Webring
• Discovery Student Adventures —  Lesson Plans and Videos

Assessment and Reporting

• Ontario Provincial Report Card
• Growing Success
• EQAO: Education Quality and Accountability Office  — Information about province-wide testing for Grades 3, 6, and secondary school mathematics and literacy.

Teaching Strategies for Special Needs Learners and all others

• Education for All, report of the expert panel on literacy and numeracy instruction for students   this is a key document for all teaching and learning
• Learning For All - this is the latest Ontario key document for all learners K-12
• Teaching Strategies and Techniques— Learning Disabilities OnLine

Finding Ms McArthur: Paul Deir's intro to Classroom Management (Please note that this is a rather large WORD file. You may want to save it the first time you open it.)

Ministry of Education Online Resources

• Ontario Ministry of Education — Curriculum and Policy, publications, support documents, professional learning, etc.
• Ontario Ministry of Education Links -- Many resources available through this links page: Schoolnet, Media Awareness Network and many more.
• Curriculum Services Canada — Curriculum, Course Profiles, Learning Resources, etc.
• Ontario School Year Calendar
• Ontario Teacher Employment Information
• Departments of Education Across Canada

Ontario College of Teachers

• Ontario College of Teachers Web site  

Other Resources

• PEEL Principles (32 KB Microsoft Word)— A distillation of important teaching principles
• Action Research — Details about the Australian Project for the Effective Enhancement of Learning.
• ETFO & OSSTF Publications (108 KB Microsoft Word)  

• PROF 190/191 Professional Responsibilities & Organizations. Find information here about a host of items of concern to candidates and practicing teachers: QECO, OTF, ETFO, OECTA, OSSTF, information about OSR's, IEP's and more....