Challenging Stories

Challenging Stories

Author: Angela Ward

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781551309750

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"This edited collection highlights the value of contemporary Canadian literature for addressing issues of social justice in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms. The collection describes how a group of teachers selected Canadian social justice literature and developed curriculum around this literature. The authors also explore the complexities teachers face in addressing controversial and sensitive topics with their students. The chapters, many co-authored by participating teachers, offer insight into the potential and the challenges of making these curricular and pedagogical changes in the classroom to promote equity, empathy, and social awareness in students. The chosen texts address a variety of issues related to social justice, including discrimination, historical marginalization, racial and gender intolerance, sexual orientation, and language and cultural issues. Although the study focused on teaching Canadian texts, the stories address possibilities for developing culturally sensitive curricula and empowering pedagogies."--


Teaching Resources: Canadian Character Education 1-2

Teaching Resources: Canadian Character Education 1-2

Author: Janet Bartier

Publisher:

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781897457375

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The Popular Teaching Resources Collection has been developed specifically for elementary school teachers to facilitate their teaching. Curriculum-based reproducible forms, checklists, information sheets, and other materials for classroom use are so handy and readily available that teachers no longer need to design and make them on their own, so that they can put their time to better use.


Physical and Health Education in Canada

Physical and Health Education in Canada

Author: Barrett, Joe

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 149252042X

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Physical and Health Education in Canada: Integrated Strategies for Elementary Teachers is a compendium of integrated, evidence-based approaches to physical and health education teaching from leading physical and health educators and researchers from across Canada.


Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Schools

Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Schools

Author: Pamela Rose Toulouse

Publisher: Portage & Main Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1553797469

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In this book, author Pamela Rose Toulouse provides current information, personal insights, authentic resources, interactive strategies and lesson plans that support Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners in the classroom. This book is for all teachers that are looking for ways to respectfully infuse residential school history, treaty education, Indigenous contributions, First Nation/Métis/Inuit perspectives and sacred circle teachings into their subjects and courses. The author presents a culturally relevant and holistic approach that facilitates relationship building and promotes ways to engage in reconciliation activities.


Talking Beyond the Page

Talking Beyond the Page

Author: Janet Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1000115860

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Talking Beyond the Page shows how different kinds of picturebooks can be used with children of all ages and highlights the positive educational gains to be made from reading, sharing, talking and writing about picturebooks. With contributions from some of the world's leading experts, chapters in this book consider how: children think about and respond to visual images and other aspects of picturebooks children’s responses can be qualitatively improved by encouraging them to think and talk about picturebooks before, during and after reading them the non-text features of picturebooks, when considered in their own right, can help readers to make more sense out of the book different kinds of picturebooks, such as wordless, postmodern, multimodal and graphic novels, are structured children can respond creatively to picturebooks as art forms picturebooks can help children deal with complex issues in their lives Talking beyond the Page also includes an exclusive interview with Anthony Browne who shares thoughts about his work as an author illustrator. This inspiring and thought provoking book is essential reading for teachers, student teachers, literacy consultants, academics interested in picturebook research and those organising and teaching on teacher education courses in children’s literature and literacy.


Stories for Every Classroom

Stories for Every Classroom

Author: Beverly A. Brenna

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1551307294

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Academic study of children's literature has explored various aspects of diversity; however, little research has examined Canadian books that portray characters with disabilities. This relevant and timely text addresses the significant dearth of research by exploring the treatment of disability in Canadian literature for young people. Engaging and highly accessible, this text will assist teachers, teacher educators, and teacher candidates in finding and using books about characters where disability is a part of their characterization, supporting the development of curricula that reflect critical literacy and social justice issues. Stories for Every Classroom explores the historical patterns and trends, theoretical frameworks, and critical literacy methods used to understand and teach children's literature and its portrayal of characters with disabilities. It provides educators with curriculum ideas and enriches the body of resources shared with children in K-12 settings for the purposes of developing imagination, empathy, and understanding of self and others. Featuring author portraits, comprehensive annotated bibliographies of contemporary Canadian children's books that depict characters with disabilities, and read-on bibliographies that provide connections with other books in the field, this unique text will be an invaluable resource for educators.


Classroom Voices

Classroom Voices

Author: David Booth

Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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This book uses a structure that can be best described as half textbook, half novel. Presenting language arts information in a straightforward, yet engaging manner, it reflects realistically the state of today's classrooms.


The Multi-grade Classroom

The Multi-grade Classroom

Author: Joel Gajadharsingh

Publisher: Canadian Education Association

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780920315484

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This study is meant as an exploratory study to determine the extent to which multi-grade classrooms exist in school districts in Canada. Specifically, it obtains demographic information on multi-grade classrooms across Canada; describes the type (or classification) of grades and grade combinations in these schools; identifies the range of methodological procedures used and the instructional areas in which teachers need assistance; elicits the opinions of experienced teachers and principals on the psycho-social and cognitive development of students; and derives recommendations on curricula design, the organization of students for instructional purposes, the training of teachers for the multi-grade classroom, and needed research.