Apply To Education - New Grad Teacher Job Fair

Event Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021

Event Time: 12:30 – 3:30PM EST

This event is exclusively for students graduating from a Canadian certified education program who have no, or up to two years, of experience. The New Grad Teacher Job Fair is your chance to network with school boards from across Canada and learn more about what opportunities they have to offer.

School boards from across Canada will be attending this fair. As space is limited, please only apply if the participating school boards are of interest to you. 

For additional information, including participating School Boards and how to register for the event, please visit New Grad Teacher Job Fair

Save The Date -- Virtual NCCIE Events - Sharing Indigenous Education Resources

 

Further information and registration links to follow​.​

Hillsdale's PRO Grant Project: Fit Family Fridays

Hillsdale's PRO Grant Project: Fit Family Fridays - We are providing families with easy fitness activities that will be completed on each family's property on Fridays. This will be our way to build a sense of community during a time that we cannot gather together (we will all be doing the same activity at the same time). 

How would B.Ed. students participate?

B.Ed. students would provide easy to follow directions for a physical game/activity &/or a video explaining the game/activity keeping in mind that family sizes are different (some may only have 2 people participating and others may have 8). B.Ed. students could use an activity they may have planned for movement breaks in class or something for a physical education class that they would teach in the future.

If interested in this initiative or have any questions, please contact Laura Crawford-Awrey at crawfo2@lakeheadu.ca

Designated Early Childhood Educator - Job Opportunity in Peel District School Board

 

Message from the Orillia LU Library - Library Resources on Placement

 Dear Lakehead-Orillia Education Students:

Library Staff hope that your fall 2020 placements are going well, and we would like to remind you that the library's online resources and services are available during your placement period.  We have outlined some of these resources and services below.   Please remember that if you need assistance accessing library resources please contact the library directly at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

Library Services/Resources:  

Scan and Delivery of book excerpts and journal articles may be possible while you are on your placement.  As pictured below, you can find the book or journal article in Omni , click "Sign In" to login with your Lakehead username and password , then click on "Request Scanned Excerpt"  ,  and fill in the blanks on the form.   As long as your scan request is within our copyright guidelines, you will receive a scanned copy by email of the excerpt you are requesting.  If you have trouble locating an item in Omni, please contact us by email at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

Curbside Pickup of items from the Orillia Education Library is also available.  Find the item in Omni , click "Sign In"to login with your Lakehead username and password, then click on "Request Physical Item".  The Orillia Education Library is closed, but if you choose the Harvie Legacy Library location (at the Orillia University Avenue location), you may pick up your books there. You will receive an email from the library with information regarding pickup.

Library Guides are available on many Education-related topics  and include links to many freely available resources.  These include a series of P/J Teaching Topics; I/S Teaching Topics; K-12 Indigenous Education; Language Arts Mentor Texts; K-12 Makerspaces; Children/Young Adult Booklists and more.

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 and more.  Start at the Education Library website  library.lakeheadu.ca/education , and find the "Resources" box .  Here you have access to journal databases, ebook databases, lesson planning databases and streaming databases.   If you are off campus,  login with your LU username and password unless you are directed to  "Education Passwords"  a course site which lists unique password information.   A selection of these databases is listed below:

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.

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. (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Education Passwords" or contact the Education Library at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

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, "Education Passwords" or contact the Orillia Education Library at orlib@lakeheadu.ca). 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.

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, "Education Passwords" or contact the Orillia Education Library at orlib@lakeheadu.ca).

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.

TumbleMath  A comprehensive collection of math picture books, all in the amazing TumbleBook format complete with animation and narration. The books are accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes. Click on Quiz Portal and you will find a Portal containing thousands of quizzes created by math teachers specifically for your state/provincial standards.

 

Follow the Education Library on  Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/LULibraryEducation  or Twitter @LakeheadLibEduc

Please remember that if you need assistance accessing resources please contact the library directly at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

All the best to you on your teaching placement!

Lakehead-Orillia Education Library Staff

Lakehead's Festivus Celebrations start November 30

Festivus – a celebration for the rest of us! – will celebrate the season with holiday movie trivia, a cookie decorating contest, and many more virtual events. 

Sign up today at lakeheadu.ca/orilliafestivus

 

Teach For Canada - Applications Now Open!

Applications for teaching in northern Ontario and Manitoba First Nations are now open! 

Teach For Canada is looking for exceptional teachers to help make education more equal in the North. We work with First Nations education leaders, principals, teachers, and many others to recruit and select teachers who have the motivation, aptitude, and fit to be successful in a northern First Nation.  Once selected, we provide two weeks of community-focused summer preparation and provide ongoing support during a teacher’s minimum two-year teaching commitment in the North. Inspired by the leadership of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action on Education, Teach For Canada teachers emphasize a spirit of reciprocal learning in the classroom and community.

We currently partner with 20 First Nations communities. If you are interested in learning more about the communities we partner with, you can read their profiles here. You can also join Teach For Canada for our virtual events to learn more about living and teaching in the North.

If you are interested in starting an application, you can apply here.