Math Camp 2013

• Math Camp 2013 will focus on building the capacity of those with responsibility for facilitating the learning of educators in order to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics in classrooms.

  Who?	This year’s camp is being offered to educators with responsibility for leading and facilitating professional learning in mathematics in their school board. Space is reserved for two participants from each publically funded English language district school board in Ontario.
  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.
  

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.

Creating the Conditions for Learning Mathematics

• Creating the Conditions for Learning Mathematics, an In-depth Co-Learning Experience for Students and Educators. Through the lens of Dr. Alex Lawson, classroom teacher Margaret Allen and her students, viewers can consider various aspects of student learning of mathematics along with clips from Doug Clements and Lucy West. The Viewer's Guide for this resource includes samples of written student work.
  
  Click on < Webcasts / Creating the Conditions for Learning Mathematics > in the left menu on the LNS Math Resources home page.

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.

Facilitator's Guide for the Adolescent Literacy Guide

• A facilitator’s guide is now available to support professional learning using
  the Adolescent Literacy Guide.
  
  Click on < Adolescent Literacy / Additional Resources > in the left menu on
  the Literacy GAINS home page.

Make Room for… Students to Pose and Pursue Questions

• This ALERT focuses on enabling students to pose and pursue their own questions, which helps them to become self-directed, reflective learners.
  
  Click on < Adolescent Literacy / Additional Resources > in the left menu on the Literacy GAINS home page.

Professional Learning Strategy Evaluation

• The full report from the University of Ottawa for the DI Professional Learning Strategy External Evaluation is now available online on EduGAINS.
  
  Click on < Implementing Effective Instruction / DI Professional Learning Strategy External Evaluation > in the left menu on the DI GAINS home page.

Doing Math with Your Child

• Doing Math with Your Child, a parent guide for students in grades K – 6 is now available online in 13 additional languages. These guides have been uploaded to the LNS Math Resources site for your reference.
  
  Click on < Parent Resources / Doing Mathematics with Your Child > in the left menu
  on the LNS Math Resources home page.

GSP Sketchpad LessonLink

• Ontario teachers can sign up for a free 3-year subscription to Sketchpad LessonLink. LessonLink is a resource library of over 500 Sketchpad activities.
  
  Click <here> for signup instructions.

Teaching and Learning Examples now posted

• Teaching and Learning Examples are now available for elementary and secondary teachers to help plan lessons related to financial literacy education. Included are examples of cross-curricular and subject-specific approaches for teachers to use and adapt as appropriate for the students in their classroom. The teaching and learning examples reflect a number of elementary and secondary grades, subjects, courses and pathways.
  
  Click on <Resources / Teaching and Learning Examples>   in the left menu on the Financial Literacy home page.

January 28, 2013  

Financial Literacy in Ontario Schools: An Introduction

• A new video entitled “Financial Literacy in Ontario Schools: An Introduction” is available to provide an overview of Financial Literacy Education in Ontario. Watch it to see financial literacy education in action in Ontario elementary and secondary classrooms, with comments from students, parents, educators and experts.
  
  This new resource is found on the <Highlights Videos> link above.

Gap Closing Grade 9 French Resources

• The Gap Closing Grade 9 Student Books and Facilitators Guides are now available in French.
  
  Click on <Gap Closing Intermediate/Senior (French)> under Learning Materials/Gap Closing in the left menu on the MathGAINS home page to view or download.

STEP Initial Language Assessment

• Password protected components of the STEP Initial Language Assessment are now available. Intermediate/Secondary Oral Picture Response questions and Grade 4 – 6 Reading passages.
  
  Click on < STEP >under Assessment in the left menu on the ELL GAINS home page.

Adolescent Literacy: Engaging Research and Teaching (ALERT)

• ALERTs are information articles that provide practical ideas for grades 7 to 12 literacy instruction. There are two ALERTS now posted.
  
  Making Room for… Talking to Learn
  
  This ALERT focuses on promoting the use of purposeful learning conversations to support adolescent literacy needs.
  
  Necessary for Some… How to Help Students Who Struggle with Reading
  
  This ALERT focuses on meeting the needs of adolescent students who are struggling with reading.
  
  

Click on <Additional Resources> found under Adolescent Literacy
in the left menu on the Literacy GAINS home page.

December 3, 2012  

Additional K-12 Mathematics Resources

• The LNS Math Resources site has posted the following materials: one new Capacity Building K-12 monograph, Pedagogical Documentation: Leading Learning in the Early Years and Beyond; and one new Mathematics Foundational Principles support document, Paying Attention to Proportional Reasoning K-12: Support Document for Paying Attention to Mathematical Education.