Student assessment and evaluation is an integral part of the teaching and learning process. Teachers in Ontario are required to use diverse forms of assessment to support and communicate progress in learning to students, parents, and school administrators. This course will build on your current assessment practice and support you in exploring ways to enhance …
The SOQP is designed to provide opportunities to enhance candidates’ professional knowledge, efficacy, capacities and leadership resources from a system perspective. Candidates will critically explore effective processes for collaboratively working with a wide range of educators, families, caregivers, trustees, the Ontario Teachers’ Federation and its affiliates, principal organizations, representatives from Ministries and stakeholders. Candidates will …
Where are the school libraries? And where are our teacher librarians? Research and experience consistently demonstrate that quality resources and professionally staffed school libraries are strongly linked to information literacy skills, student achievement, aptitude and interest in reading, success at the post-secondary level and Canadian cultural identity. ( Literacy and school libraries — the big …
The focus in Librarianship Part 2 is on the teacher librarian (TL) as a teacher and on the school library as a critical component of every student’s education. Recent, groundbreaking research provides strong evidence that school libraries and teacher librarians have a positive impact on student learning. In this course you will have the opportunity …
In the age of Googling, the job of librarians is more important than ever! Stand up and be counted as a role model for resource-based learning where collections encompass a vast array of information tools from books to bytes in the virtual world. Wherever information is, we should be able to find it. Wherever learning …
