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Educational and Resource Links
Links from the Provincial OSSTF Website
OSSTF Educational Issues Information
- OSSTF Curriculum Package: Common Threads (Globalization, Sweatshops and the Clothes We Wear)
- Provincial
Educational Services Committee Website contains links to a great
many other documents and research about educational issues.
- OSSTF Monographs about current critical educational issues.
- Resource Lists on Educational Issues
OSSTF Educational Resource Books
- School Law 2002: A practical guide to legislation, case law and issues for educators. Topics include criminal law, human rights, the Young Offenders Act, safe schools, employee rights, negligence, health legislation, College of Teachers, special education and more. A must have for anyone working in public education in an increasingly complex and constantly changing environment.
- Coping With the New Curriculum - Senior Grades: Strategies for working smarter not harder in the context of the new curriculum and secondary school reform. There are lots of tips for planning lessons, assessing, and reporting. There is even a chapter on how to make the electronic curriculum planner work for you. Plus a chapter on Looking After Yourself!
- Survival Strategies: This book will highlight classroom management strategies, starting the school year, coping with student behaviour (both good and bad), managing your time, and working in the Full Service School.
- Crisis Management: Keys to Prevention and Intervention: This book updates Managing Conflict by dealing specifically with myths concerning educators' powers to discipline, proactive programs to prevent violence, harassment and theft, and intervention skills and programs that are safe, easy to implement and effective. Programs like non-violent crisis intervention, Crimestoppers, CAVEAT, Peer Mediation and Break the Silence are highlighted.
- Contacts: Literacy Across the Curriculum: Whole school literacy strategies, diagnostic tests, developing literacy in all subject areas, communication-centred instruction.
An order form for these and other OSSTF resource books can be downloaded from the same page.
Other Sources of Educational Resources
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A Lexicon of Learning
What Educators Mean When They Say. . . - A to Z Teacher Stuff
- A & E Canadian Classroom
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Awesome Library: K-12 Education Directory
- Blogging Basics: Creating Student Journals on the Web
- Cable in the Classroom
- Canada's Cultural Gateway
- Canada's National History Society (includes lesson plans)
- Canadian Mental Health Association
- CanLearn Interactive (the one-stop online source for information on post-secondary education in Canada)
- Children's Mental Health Ontario
- Dave's ESL Café
- Discovery Channel for Teachers
- Dr. Fred Jones's Tools for Teaching
- Education World
- Effective Teaching...Applying For A Teaching Job In A Tight Market, Part 1
- Effective Teaching...Applying For A Teaching Job In A Tight Market, Part 2
- The EduHound
- Encouraging Global Citizenship (teacher resources from UNICEF)
- ExpeditionQuest Classroom
- Gateway to Educational Materials
- Global Voices (main age of columns by the Kielburger brothers; also includes lesson plans and other resources) (Toronto Star)
- Historica
- How to Create a Professional Portfolio
- I Love Teaching .com
- Internet Resources on Child Labor and Children's Rights
- Karin's ESL PartyLand
- Kids Can Free the Children
- Kids Voting Canada
- Leaders Today
- League of Canadian Poets
- Mathworld
- The Memory Project (Sections on Immigration, Peace and War, and Heroes)
- Mental Health and High School
- MoveOn.Org (Democracy in Action)
- Multicultural History Society of Ontario
- Newspapers in Education
- Ontario Curriculum Centre: Course Profiles
- PBS Teacher Resources
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (includes info for school trips, presentations, and teacher workshops)
- Phi Delta Kappan
- The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources
- Schoolnet
- Skills for Life, Learning and Work
- Statistics Canada Learning Resources
- Teachers Institute for Canadian Parliamentary Democracy
- Teachers of English as a Second Language (TESL) of Ontario
- Teachers' Net
- Teaching Help
Anti-Bullying Resources
- List of Anti-bullying Resources from the Provincial Office
- CALM (Crisis Awareness Learning Module) and STAR (Staff/Students At Risk) Workshop Information
- Safe Schools Website from the Thames Valley District School Board
- Bullying.org
- Cyberbullying
- Cyberbully.org
- Bullying Awareness Network
- Workplace Bullying (Canada Safety Council)
- Bullying in the Workplace (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety)
- Workplace Bullying and Trauma Centre
Government Resources
- Ministry of Education Home Page
- Apprentice Search (Research pathways to apprenticeships)
- Worksmart Ontario!
- Passport to Safety
Teaching Elsewhere
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