Teacher Jargon
A document outlining accommodations, modifications, and/or alternative expectations for a student.
What is an IEP (Individual Education Plan)?
The year that MPC was first built.
What is 1965?
The strand in English that focuses on interpreting and creating media texts.
What is Media Studies?
This phrase often signals a student didn’t read the instructions.
What is “what are we doing?”
The most relied-upon beverage during a long teaching day.
What is coffee?
Short, focused tasks at the start of class meant to engage students right away.
What is a Minds On activity?
A common gathering space where assemblies or large events are held and where Mrs. Whittaker and Mr. Sasaki perform all kinds of magic?
What is the auditorium?
This principle ensures that curriculum content is adapted to reflect diverse identities, perspectives, and lived experiences in Ontario classrooms.
What is culturally responsive pedagogy?
When a student is out of class for more than 15 minutes, this is the appropriate next step for the classroom teacher.
What is contacting the main office to have a school-based safety monitor locate the student and return them to class?
The act of covering a colleague’s class during your prep.
What is an on-call?
Assessment used during learning to give feedback and guide instruction.
What is assessment for learning (formative assessment)?
The system teachers use to take daily attendance.
What is PowerSchool?
The four categories used in the Ontario Achievement Chart.
What are Knowledge/Understanding, Thinking, Communication, and Application?
This recently updated policy regulates the use of student cell phone use during instructional time.
What is the TDSB Cell Phone/Mobile Device Policy?
This practice helps teachers manage workload by sharing resources, lessons, and assessments with colleagues.
What is collaboration?
The three-part lesson structure used in Ontario classrooms.
What is Minds On, Action, and Consolidation?
This Olympic gold medalist attended Monarch Park Collegiate between 2013 and 2017.
Who is Olympic swimmer Penny Oleksiak?
The type of expectations that describe overall learning goals for a course.
What are Overall Expectations?
This approach to student behaviour in Ontario focuses on gradual discipline, restoration, and keeping students in class whenever possible.
What is progressive discipline?
The unwritten rule about sending your copies to the photocopy machine.
What is staying in the copy room until your job is finished?
A strategy where teachers adjust content, process, or product to meet diverse learner needs.
What is differentiated instruction?
Monarch Park Collegiate has been an International Baccalaureate world school since this year.
What is 2007?
The policy document guiding assessment, evaluation, and reporting in Ontario schools.
What is Growing Success?
The mental and emotional exhaustion resulting from making a high volume of choices, leading to poorer decision-making quality over time.
What is decision fatigue?
These digital platforms are commonly used for posting assignments and materials.
What are Brightspace and Google Classroom?