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June 18, 2013  

New Financial Literacy lessons available on the OAME website

  • Classroom ready lessons and accompanying SMART notebook files are now available for educators of Grades 4, 5 and 6 and Grade 12 (MAP4C and MEL4E) mathematics. Financial literacy is the focus of these lessons that encompass mathematics curriculum expectations. Grade 11 (MCB3C) resources will be posted soon. These resources complement financial literacy resources previously posted for grade 7-10 educators.
    Click < here > to access all of the grade specific resources developed by OAME for Financial Literacy.

June 13, 2013

Literacy Camp 2013

  • Registration is now open. Educators responsible for professional learning in English/Language, French as a Second Language, Geography, History, and Science/Science & Technology, grades 7-12, (e.g. consultants, coaches, leaders of collaborative inquiry, professional learning facilitators, department heads, program leads, division leads, etc.) are eligible to apply.

    When and where?
    CAMP 2013 will take place from noon on Monday, August 19th to noon on Thursday, August 22nd at the Kempenfelt Conference Centre in Barrie.

    Who?
    This year's camp is being offered to educators with responsibility for leading and facilitating professional learning in English/Language, French as a Second Language, Geography, History, and Science, grades 7-12, in their school or school board. Educators from publically funded district school boards in Ontario are eligible to apply.

    What?
    The focus of the learning will be to:

    • advance adolescent literacy in and across subject areas
    • identify leadership practices that support learning
    • reflect on and build capacity to enhance personal leadership practices

    Click < here > for further information and registration form.

Math Logo June 10, 2013  

Math Camp 2013

  • Registration is now open. Educators responsible for professional learning in mathematics in their school or school board (e.g. coaches, leaders of collaborative inquiry, school facilitators, etc.) are eligible to apply.

    Who?  This year's camp is being offered to educators with responsibility for leading and facilitating professional learning in mathematics in their school or school board. Educators from publically funded English language district school boards in Ontario are eligible to apply.

    What? The focus of the learning will be:

    • developing effective facilitation skills;
    • connecting  learning models to the needs of the adult learner;
    • building mathematics content knowledge for the learning and teaching of proportional reasoning, algebraic reasoning and fractions.

                         Click < here > for further information and registration form.

June 9, 2013  

Additional Teaching and Learning Examples for the revised Social Studies, Grades 1-6 and History and Geography, Grades 7 and 8 curriculum now posted

  • Five new Teaching and Learning Examples are now available for elementary educators to help plan lessons related to the newly released revisedSocial Studies, Grades 1-6 and History and Geography, Grades 7 and 8 curriculum policy document. Included are approaches related to financial literacy education in social studies and history and geography for teachers to use and adapt as appropriate for the students in their classroom.

    Click on < Resources /Teaching and Learning Examples> in the left menu on the Financial Literacy home page.

June 9, 2013  

Regional Financial Literacy Educators Summit – August 2013

  • Registration and information regarding the Investor Education Fund’s Summer Financial Literacy Educators Summit is now available. The free workshops will take place in Sudbury, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Ottawa.  Participants will engage in an exciting professional learning opportunity with a goal to deepen their understanding of financial literacy education and the revised curriculum.

    Click < here > for further information and the registration website.
June 6, 2013

ILE Reource Guide

  • The new ILE Resource Guide outlines essential information for ILE instructors and includes several classroom resources such as lesson planners and graphic organizers. Get ready for a new ILE EduGAINS website launching September 2013!

June 6, 2013

Planning Assessment with Instruction Viewing Guide

May 7, 2013  

Support for ELLs and Literacy Camp 2013

  • Registration and information regarding Support for English Language Learners Summer Camp 2013 is now available. Participants will engage in an exciting professional learning opportunity with a goal to deepen their understanding of adolescent literacy and build their capacity to lead the learning of others in order to support the programming for English language learners across the curriculum.

    Click < here > for further information and the registration form.



May 2, 2013

Creating the Conditions for Learning Mathematics

April 16, 2013   

Capacity Building Series - Canadian-born English Language Learners

  • Most English language learners (ELLs) in Ontario classrooms are Canadian-born. This new monograph is a starting point for conversations about how to set the stage to appropriately program for Canadian-born ELLs.

    Click on < Monographs / Canadian-born English Language Learners > in the left menu on the ELL GAINS home page.
 

 

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