Childrens' Lit
An author who has many friends in the 100 Acre Wood.
Who is A.A. Milne?
A math manipulative you can use to represent 237.
What are Base Ten Blocks?
A legal document that provides a student with accommodations and modifications.
What is Individual Education Plan?
The Ministry document that will tell you everything you need to know about Assessment and Reporting.
What is Growing Success?
A date when each year Canadians are asked to take a stand against bullying – and to make that stance public by including an article of pink clothing in their ensemble.
What is Pink Shirt Day?
A garishly coloured food created by Dr. Seuss.
What are Green Eggs?
A manipulative with 7 pieces that can be arranged to make a million different things.
What are Tangrams?
The file where all student report cards and legal documents are kept.
What is an Ontario Student Record?
An exit card, a conference, a quiz, or anecdotal observations.
What are an example of Assessment FOR Learning?
A formal statement that recognizes and respects Indigenous Peoples as traditional stewards of this land
What is a Land Acknowledgement?
The thing Roch Carrier didn't want to wear in the iconic story, The Hockey Sweater.
What is a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey?
Six sided cubes used in probability games.
What are dice?
The union for teachers who work in public schools in Ontario.
What is the Elementary Teacher's Federation of Ontario?
Self assessment, where students reflect on their own progress and maybe set goals for themselves.
What is Assessment AS Learning?
A colour-coded conceptual framework that helps students learn to identify their feelings and emotional reactions and learn sensory and perspective-taking strategies.
What are the Zones of Regulation?
Dennis Lee's famous poem that most Canadian students can recite at least the first sentence of.
What is Alligator pie?
The shape of the yellow piece in a pattern block set.
What is a hexagon?
The organization that licenses, governs and regulates Ontario's teaching profession.
What is the Ontario College of Teachers?
Assessment that occurs at the end of a unit of study, like a test or a culminating task.
What is Assessment OF Learning?
In Canada and the US, it's in February. We remember important people and events in the history of the African diaspora.
What is Black History Month?
A company that sells books to kids and provides teachers with all sorts of incentives to send the monthly flyers home.
What is Scholastic?
A pegged board that helps students create 2D shapes.
What is a geoboard?
The person in a school who helps teachers write IEPs, and supports students who have significant learning challenges.
Who is the Special Education Resource Teacher?
A chart that we can use for diagnostic assessment, to find out what they know at the beginning of a unit.
What is a KWL chart?
The day we encourage everyone to think about indigenous students who were taken from their homes to attend Residential Schools.
What is Orange Shirt Day?