HP Student Commons Closure on Saturdays

Please be advised that for the remaining Saturdays in November and December of 2018, the Heritage Place Student Commons will be closed.  

Thank you.

SCDSB Job Postings

SCDSB is hiring!

The deadline for applications is tomorrow, November 20, 2018 at 4:00pm.

Make Peace with Winter - Bark Lake Leadership and Conference Centre January 18-20, 2019

Your 2019 COEO Make Peace with Winter Organizing Committee is hard at work planning for another amazing weekend packed full of professional development, experiential learning and winter fun. Make Peace with Winter is a retreat-style conference for educators interested in learning how to share the outdoors with their students in the coolest of seasons! Snowshoeing, cross country skiing and winter camping skills; games, crafts, learning activities; snow science, winter ecology and much, much more.

Please visit https://www.coeo.org/make-peace-winter-2019/ for additional information.  

Canadian Student Outdoor Education Conference 2019

Canadian Student Outdoor Education Conference 2019

THE HORWOOD CONFERENCE

"Restoration & Resilience"

Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, February 1-2

The Canadian Student Outdoor Education Conference (aka The Horwood Conference) is an annual event organized by and for students studying outdoor and environmental education, health and physical education, outdoor recreation, adventure leadership, experience-based learning and/or related fields. It is hosted at Queen’s University each year and held on a weekend in February. Graduate, Undergraduate, B.Ed and College students attend the Horwood Conference to present oral or poster contributions on various research topics related to outdoor education, as well as share games and learning activities, lead a variety of workshops, and attend special invited lectures. Students can choose to simply register as a conference participant or complete the attached presentation proposal form and attend as a conference presenter.

The Conference Organizing Committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the February 2019 conference. Proposals for paper presentations, posters, workshops, or creative projects will be accepted up until the submission deadline of December 15, 2018.  Restoration and Resilience is the theme of this year's conference—an open or general theme chosen specifically to encourage a wide range of submissions, diverse in both format of presentation and topics related to outdoor education.

Full details of the conference, including a fillable proposal submission form and conference registration package, may be found at the conference webpage —  https://skhs.queensu.ca/news-events/skhs-annual-conferences-and-seminars/horwood-conference/

               

We look forward to receiving proposals and hope you will be able to join us at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in February 2019.

Sincerely,

2019 Horwood Conference Organizing Committee

As always, American/international students are welcome to attend and present!

The Importance of an APPLY TO EDUCATION Profile - Task Over The Christmas Holiday Break

Good Afternoon B.Ed Students Hoping To Graduate in June 2018,

Have you heard of www.applytoeducation.com?

This website and the profile you create on it, will serve to be an indispensable tool, in your search for Teaching Opportunities in Canada. 215 Canadian School Boards & 299 Private Employers use "apply to education" to post their jobs and receive applications online. Since 1998, ApplyToEducation has helped applicants apply to over 5,500 schools in 49 countries. ApplyToEducation software simplifies how you manage your employment applications throughout your career in Education. One application portfolio in your personal cloud, gives you the ability to easily apply to: Employers Job postings Daily assignments Long-term openings (i.e. maternity leaves) Permanent openings Share your portfolio electronically with employers you’re interested in applying to. Apply to education is the best way to send your application portfolio to employers for the following reasons: YOU SAVE TIME APPLYING:  You fill out ONE application and use it for every job you apply to. You can customize your cover letter for each job you apply to.  You can update your application portfolio as often as you like.  Employers always see the latest version of your application portfolio  YOU SAVE MONEY SENDING YOUR APPLICATION:  Save time and the costs associated with photocopying, mailing, faxing and updating your application throughout your career.  applytoeducation is less expensive than paying for multiple transcripts, photocopies, mailing or faxing an application portfolio.  use applytoeducation to e-courier your application portfolio to unlimited jobs with one school board and private employers  YOU RECEIVE EMAILS ALERTING YOU TO JOBS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN: Search education jobs and set up a 'Job Alert' so you are emailed when jobs you are interested in are posted.  School Board job postings can be viewed at any time free of charge.  applytoeducation not only saves you time — it saves you money.  We encourage all of you to review the benefits of the creation of a profile on this website, over the Holiday Break.

PD Session Planning for January 2019 - Please Complete Survey

Good Afternoon B.Ed students,

The Faculty of Education would love to hear from you!

We are currently busy planning the Professional Development sessions that will occur in the New Year and would like your feedback with respect to the types of topics that are of interest to you.

Please take 1 minute to complete the survey below.

Link to survey:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTYcLaJYdGjnQ7ez7x2xAZYe7qzKDqJw2a4Ht_0AJyRIUHFQ/viewform

All survey submissions should be completed by: December 10, 2018.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Heritage Place Student Commons - Hours of Operation During Fall 2018 Placement

Starting on Thursday, November 8, 2018, the Student Commons will be open the following hours during placement:

                     Monday - Friday      8:30am - 5:00pm
                     Saturday                  12:00pm - 4:00pm   

Library services available during placement

Dear Education Students:

The Lakehead-Orillia library wishes you best of luck during your fall 2018 placements!

HERITAGE PLACE LIBRARY HOURS

The Heritage Place library is offering By Appointment hours this placement period. Please contact us in advance to make arrangements.

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS AT UNIVERSITY AVENUE

You may also arrange to pick up or return education resources at our University Avenue location after hours. Please contact us to discuss this option.

CONTACT US: 

Phone = 705 330 4008 x2252

Email = orlib@lakeheadu.ca

A list of additional services and resources for your placement are listed below.

You can borrow many library materials and bring them with you on your placement.  Ask library staff about the possibility of borrowing print materials for the duration of your placement (some materials excluded). 

Scan and Delivery of book excerpts and journal articles may be possible while you are on your placement. Find the book or journal title in the Library Catalogue and select the Request option on the right side. Log in with your Lakehead username and password, and from the list of options, choose Request an excerpt or journal article, then on the next page, fill in the blanks on the form.  More information may be found in the library FAQs.

Library Guides are available on many Education related topics and are available on the Education Library website.   A list of these guides is listed below:

• Teaching P/J Subjects
• Children / Young-Adult Book Lists
• Aboriginal Education K-12

Access to Online K-12 Lesson Planning & EBook Databases:

While you are on your placement, you have access to many online databases with teaching activities, ebooks, reproducible pages and lesson plans as well as access to OSAPAC software and websites.  

To access these databases, start at the Education Library website  library.lakeheadu.ca/education , and click on “Education Databases” .  A selection of these databases is listed below.  If you are off campus and are asked for a username and password,  enter your LU email username and password (unless otherwise indicated). 

Note that some databases and software (ie OSAPAC) require a login that is not your LU email username and password.   This username/password information is available in a  mycourselink course site named:  "Fac Ed/Library E-Tools for Teaching"  which is available to every Lakehead University Faculty of Education student.  If you do not see this course in your course listing please contact the Education Library.    

AtoZ Maps Online  Database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.

BookFlix (Children's Ebooks)  Scholastic BookFlix is an ebook database that matches children's ebook stories with related nonfiction/informational eBooks. (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Fac Ed/Library E-Tools for Teaching" or contact the Education Library Circulation Desk 343-8718).

**NEW Britannica eBook K-12 Collection   This K-12 ebook database provides access to 1,400 Britannica book titles from 40 popular Britannica series/collections. This database can be searched by keyword, grade and reading levels. It covers 39 specific subjects that are included in Kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum from the areas of science, social studies, and language arts.

**New Crabtree Digital    Access Crabtree books through this online portal. Crabtree Publishing, and Bobbie Kalman, are well-known for their beautifully illustrated books and educational resources on K-9+ curriculum subjects including animals, countries, life and physical sciences, geography, biographies and more. Newer collections include colourfully illustrated books on Mathematics, Makerspaces, Engineering, Explorers and Sports heroes.

Curriculum Resource Center An electronic library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.

Green Teacher Webinar Series Click on Webinars, select Past Webinars, Click here to access the webinar archive for subscribers. (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Fac Ed/Library E-Tools for Teaching" or contact the Education Library Circulation Desk 343-8718). After you enter the password, you should be directed into a page of "Protected Webinar Subscriber Archive".

International Children's Digital Library (Children's Ebooks) Provides free access to high-quality children’s books from around the world in different languages, including Arabic, Afrikaans, Danish, English, Farsi and beyond.

NAXOS Music Library Comprehensive Music Collection with access to CDs and tracks of music and other information. 500+ new CDs are added to the library every month. (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Fac Ed/Library E-Tools for Teaching" or contact the Education Library Circulation Desk 343-8718).

OERB: Ontario Educational Resources Bank Ontario Ministry of Education database. You may search for resources by grade, subject/course, strand, overall expectations, and/or keywords. Videoclips are included in this database. (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Fac Ed/Library E-Tools for Teaching" or contact the Education Library Circulation Desk 343-8718).

Open Culture: The best free cultural & educational media on the web This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress.

OPHEA (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association) Elementary Curriculum Online Resources These online resources, support the implementation of Ontario’s H&PE Curriculum for Grades 1-8 by providing access to downloadable and searchable lesson plans addressing Ontario H&PE Curriculum expectations; access to student materials, planning schedules and writable assessment tools and links to supplemental resources. Click the "Click to Access the HP&E Resources" button on the BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF PAGE to access this database.

OPHEA (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association) Secondary Curriculum Online Resources These online resources, support the implementation of Ontario’s H&PE Curriculum for Grades 9-12 by providing access to downloadable and searchable lesson plans addressing Ontario H&PE Curriculum expectations; access to student materials, planning schedules and writable assessment tools and links to supplemental resources. Click the "Click to Access the HP&E Resources" button on the BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF PAGE to access this database.

OPHEA Safety Guidelines Link directly to the Ontario Physical Education Safety Guidelines. No password required

TumblebookCloud (Ebooks for Middle & High School) A collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic!), and Audio Books suitable for middle school and high school grades. Lesson plans and quizzes accompany the books.

Tumblebook Library (Children's Ebooks) A collection of electronic animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles for children. The Tumblebook collection includes read alongs (chapter books) ebooks, puzzles and games and TumbleResources for teachers and students.

Parking in Lot 6

For those teacher candidates whose parking pass for Lot 6 has expired, you have a  few options. The lot has two kiosks where you can pay for up to 8 hours of parking. You may also choose to use the city's parking app in order to pay during these last few days before placement, when your monthly permit has expired. Information about the app and how to use it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAtJYieT3XA

This means that none of our students need to be at risk of getting a parking ticket. Please share this information with your cohorts!

Frances

Drop-In Lesson Planning Session

On Wednesday, November 7, 2018 there will be a drop-in session for any students wishing to discuss their specific of lesson planning. It will work best if you bring a lesson plan you have completed or are currently working on. We will also have the opportunity to moderate some lesson plan samples, including the kindergarten template.  

If you are planning to attend, please visit the Education Office to sign up.  

Details for the Drop-in Lesson Plan Session

Location: Classroom OH10
Date: November 7, 2018
Time: 10:30 - 12:30

safeTalk Workshop - Monday November 19, 2018

To inquire or register, please visit: http://bit.ly/2RkzhNS