TEACHER RESOURCES
TEACHER RESOURCES
Developing Your Teaching Statement: serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep/jobsearch/teaching_statement.html
Exploring Your Teaching Philosophy: Sample Exercises: uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-resources/teaching-tips/professional-development/enhancing-your-teaching/exploring-your-teaching-philosophy
Writing a Teaching Statement: cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/teaching-statement
Reflective Practice: sites.google.com/alphaplus.ca/rpr/home
A teaching philosophy inventory (Essentialism, Behaviorism, Progressivism, Existenialism, Perennialism, Reconstructionism) you can try - you do not have to enter any personal information to get a score but I am not sure if you will find the result all that interesting: www.authenticeducating.com/education-philosophy-inventory
Exploring Identity Markers
Use this activity to explore your concept of your identity.
Harvard University’s Project Implicit has an online test you can take to examine your implicit bias.
Strategies to Address Unconscious Bias: diversity.ucsf.edu/resources/strategies-address-unconscious-bias
5 Keys to Challenging Implicit Bias: www.edutopia.org/blog/keys-to-challenging-implicit-bias-shane-safir
9 Questions for Unbiasing Teams: rework.withgoogle.com/guides/unbiasing-hold-everyone-accountable/steps/use-the-discussion-guide-to-start-a-conversation
Liberating Structures www.liberatingstructures.com
This website offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together. It provides a menu of thirty-three Liberating Structures to replace or complement conventional practices. Some of these can be used in classrooms. For a guide to the structures, look at the last section of this document: bit.ly/APbuildcommunity
Getting Started With Culturally Responsive Teaching
www.edutopia.org/article/getting-started-culturally-responsive-teaching
Learning for Justice www.learningforjustice.org
A site geared to students of all school levels – grade school to high school activities and readings.
Learning for Justice’s teaching strategies on facilitating community discussions
MIT Diversity resources diversity.mit.edu/#
The Change Agent changeagent.nelrc.org
Diaspora Studies at University of Toronto (Rima Berns-McGown)
How to tell someone they sound racist from IllDoctrine by Jay Smooth
www.illdoctrine.com/2008/07/how_to_tell_people_they_sound.html
Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable by Black Girl Dangerous
www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/12/calling-less-disposable-way-holding-accountable
Calling In: A Quick Guide on When and How (John Monahan)
everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/guide-to-calling-in Mosaic Institute
Supporting Students with Disabilities in K-12 Online and Blended Learning Companion Resource: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xtl2-9RNHZgCI8T_zl9RaXe7RZ2ph352850IlVsApwo/present#slide=id.g85a80f319a_0_346
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada - LD Basics
www.ldac-acta.ca/learn-more/ld-basics
Literacy and Disabilities from Community Literacy Ontario
literacybasics.ca/training/learning-supports
Addressing the Needs of Students [K-12] with Learning Disabilities
www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/docs/support/learn_disabilities/full_doc.pdf
Learning Disabilities A Guide for Educators who Work with Adult Learners
en.copian.ca/library/learning/ldguide/ldguide.pdf
Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture www.ccvt.org
Your Legal Rights: Abuse and Family Violence cleoconnect.ca/legal-topic/abuse-and-family-violence
Learning and Violence by Jenny Horsman www.learningandviolence.net and www.jennyhorsman.com
'But I'm Not a Therapist' - The challenge of creating effective literacy learning for survivors of trauma. In S. Shore, (Ed.) Australian Council for Adult Literacy 21st National Conference: Literacy on the Line. Conference Proceedings. Adelaide, University of South Australia, 1998. greedymouse.ca/PDF/horsman.pdf
What I Learned in Class Today: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom
Decolonizing the classroom is more than just a checklist
Ryerson educators discuss the need for true collaboration and respect during panel discussion, January 30, 2018
Skunk Girl Goes to School by Nancy Cooper
literacies.ca/literacies/3-2004/pdf/cooper.pdf
What Western Education Didn’t Teach Me by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
thewalrus.ca/what-western-education-didnt-teach-me
The crucial role of Indigenous elders by Doreen Spence via WalrusTalks