LEL Toolkit

This site, hosted by OCTE, has been created for educators as a one stop shop for experiential learning resources and opportunities that can be offered to students in face-to-face, blended and distance learning models. The focus has been to share no cost opportunities that support curriculum and pathways exploration. Please feel free to share with educators in your Boards. (FL)

OCTE Guide for Developing Virtual Field Trip Experiences

Virtual Field trips are a great way to engage learners in the 21st century. This document will help educators develop a rich and authentic virtual field trip connected to curriculum expectations, global competencies, assessment, and evaluation, with student well-being in mind.

The experiential learning cycle is composed of three distinct phases that are directly connected to student learning: students participate in an experience; they reflect on that experience to make meaning and they apply what they’ve learned to familiar and new contexts. The experiential learning cycle can be leveraged as an important process when considering criteria for assessment. The assessment and evaluation resources created by OCTE in this package include suggestions for where and when to assess experiential learning; an assessment chart with teacher prompts specific to experiential learning; suggestions for co-creation of learning goals and success criteria and samples for educators to consider.

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Developed by OCTE, these resources provide a suite of Experiential Learning Opportunities related to the Skilled Trades. With an intentional connection between Skilled Trades and global competencies, these resources may be used throughout the year/semester to further engage students. Having virtual and face-to-face delivery in mind you could adapt this to any classroom. All of the resources come in various versions so you can tailor this to your classrooms. (I, S) FL

This resource, developed by OCTE, is intended to be used by Leaders of Experiential Learning as a guide for the multitude of planning and implementation considerations, organizational tools, and teacher-facing resources that can support a successful ‘call for proposals’ for experiential learning projects in their board.

Created by OCTE, this resource provides a toolkit of considerations, recommendations, exemplars and ready-to-use resources for both Leaders of Experiential Learning and classroom educators to successfully recruit and integrate community partners into their experiential learning initiatives. Some of the resources available in this package which are important for educator consideration have been highlighted below.