Online Resources to Support Aboriginal Teacher Candidates

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This page supports Instructors and Teacher Candidates in the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP).

ATEP Instructors and Teacher Candidates are invited to contact the Education Library by email at education.library@queensu.ca to request that books be sent to them by Canada Post. Please use your Queen's email and include your name and student number. Materials can be signed out for 4 weeks. The package we send you will include a paid return label that can be used to return materials. This service is new and will be evaluated at the close of the school year in 2013.

Please see the PJ Teacher Candidate pages for resource suggestions across the primary-junior curriculum.

Also, your suggestions for this site are most welcome! Please email us at education.library@queensu.ca or contact Cory directly at lavertyc@queensu.ca.

Full Circle: First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Ways of Knowing. 2012. OSSTF. This comprehensive document consists of sixty lessons that cover four broad themes: Land, Health, Residential Schools and Identity. The lessons use a holistic teaching approach that honours traditional knowledge and Aboriginal values. All lessons are classroom-ready, with associated black line masters and assessment rubrics. Differentiated instruction is embedded in the lessons and there are a variety of assessments for learning, as learning and of learning. Also watch the Full Circle video.

Getting to know Turtle Island: Incorporating First Nation, Métis and Inuit perspectives K-8. 2011. This book was written by the Limestone District School Board under the leadership of Kevin Reed, Aboriginal Consultant to the LDSB, with a team of K-8 teachers. It is an integrated aboriginal curriculum and includes provincial learning expectations, suggested teaching strategies, resources (some websites and other print materials), and summative tasks. Freely available to anyone in the world.

Turtle Island Resource List. This is the list of print resources included in Turtle Island, in case you would like to request them from the Education Library or purchase them for your own collection.

Learning Circles – Grades 3-6, Curriculum Links for Ontario Teachers
This resource was created in partnership with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). It is a
companion document to INAC’s teacher resource package, The Learning Circle, Classroom Activities
on First Nations in Canada – Ages 8-11. Both documents must be used together.

The learning circle : classroom activities on First Nations in Canada : ages 8-11- INAC

In our own words: Bringing authentic First Peoples content to the K-3 classroom - First Nations Education Steering Committee

Math First Peoples: Teaching Mathematics in a First Peoples Context, Grades 8 and 9 - First Nations Education Steering Committee   

Seventh Generation Club Science Experiments Booklets
Each booklet contains 12 - 15  science experiments. Book 1 - Book 2 - Book 3 - Book 4 - Book 5 - Book 6 - Book 7 - Book 8 - Book 9 - Book 10

Other resources to support an Aboriginal curriculum. This includes many free websites as well as print materials that can be requested from the Education Library.

Authentic First Peoples resources: First Nations Education Steering Committee 

Integrating Aboriginal teaching and values in the classroom

Lessons and Units from the Alaska Native Knowledge Network

Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension from Strong Nations. Under Graphic Organizers" see the guide to Learning Strategies for Aboriginal Students

Our Words Our Ways:Teaching First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Learners from Alberta Education

Exploring Aboriginal Identity Through Art and Appendices: OSSTF
 

First Nations Education Resources

Online Teacher Resources for Literacy and Numeracy

A portal with free access to resources specifically crafted for Ontario educators seeking to improve their skills and knowledge. The site includes e-learning modules with video and lesson ideas created by Ontario teachers. Also see the Guides to Effective Instruction.

Ontario Educational Resource Bank: Requires username and password from D2L. Browse by grade for lessons across all subjects. This is a repository for online learning objects and lesson plans created by Ontario teachers.

Illuminations: Produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Illuminations is the math component of thinkfinity.org

Marilyn Burns’ Math Solutions: Select Educator Tools in the top menu, then Free Classroom Lessons.

Imagine the learning: elementary research success @ your library: A guide for elementary teacher-librarians and teachers to use with students: Download a copy of this book on how to develop inquiry-based learning. Log in with your Net ID to download a copy. This is password-potected for use by Queen's students only.

Google Tips for Teachers.  There are many useful lesson plans on the web, the only problem is finding them. Check out the search tips below.

Commoncraft's Web Search Strategies in Plain English

How do I search for Books in the Education Library?

1. Go to http://library.queensu.ca

2. Click on the tab QCAT Catalogue.

3. Click on the link that says Full Catalogue.

4. Under Limit To, select Education Library to find print materials that are located at the Education Library.

5. Select Keyword Boolean as your Search by method.

Use ? to expand words; use OR to broaden searches with synonyms Use AND to combine terms; use " " around phrases.
e.g. For classroom management ideas at the elementary level: "classroom management" and elementary

6. These items will be sent to you if you send the list along with your name and student number to education.library@queensu.ca.

Teacher Candidates have access to two videostreaming collections and some components of online textbooks for use in classrooms during their practicum. Passwords for these collections are available in the Faculty of Education online course mangement system called Desire2Learn.

To log in:

• Go to the Faculty of Education homepage
• Click Desire2Learn (left menu)
• Log in to D2L using your Queen's NetID
• Click on Resource F002 Faculty of Education Student Resources

Learn360: http://learn360.ca Search Guide for Learn360 | Learn360 Overview

• A multimedia resource package that includes 8,300 videos, video clips, audio files, speeches, images, newsreels, & articles from Encyclopedia Britannica.
• Licensed for 3 years beginning September, 2010, by Ontario’s Ministry of Education (via OSAPAC) for publicly-funded schools, First Nations schools using the Ontario curriculum, and Ontario Faculties of Education. You should see this in use on your practica.

Access Learning: http://www.accesslearning.com Search Guide for Access Learning

• Offers 3500 full-length videos and 40,000 clips from educational video-streamed programs.
• Curriculum correlations are available for all provinces.
• Programs and producers include Bill Nye the Science Guy, The Eyes of Nye, Animal World, Canadian Geographic Kids, BioMedia, Exploration Productions (Discovery Canada), Intelecom, and VEA.

National Film Board Videos Online: http://nfb.ca

Over 1000 online NFB films are free to all Canadians. Queen’s University Library has paid the classroom public performance rights for this product, so you can show an additional 500 videos in classrooms. To make your own account, get access to the teaching materials associated with individual films, create playlists and chapters, follow these directions to sign up. Please note that there is Canadian Aboriginal content here including aboriginal and Inuit stories but you will still need to screen each video to ensure acceptable content. Check out their latest Aboriginal Studies flyer.

TVO: http://ww3.tvo.org/

Select the Topics or Video tab to play a range of documentaries and TV Video on demand in the classroom. Essential for Ontario topics.

Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/

Over 1200 videos lessons covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, and biology.

TED-Ed: http://ed.ted.com/tour

Videos recorded by experts and then animated for teaching purposes. Each one includes a follow-up quiz and open-ended questions. Responses to these questions can be tracked to help you gauge students' learning as a result of watching the video. You can also "flip" a video that you would like to share with your students and add your own review questions. Students are directed to a unique URL where responses can also be monitored.

Annenburg Learninghttp://www.learner.org

Distributes more than 100 multimedia courses and workshops to help teachers keep current on the content they teach including research on the most effective teaching strategies along with their connection to national education content standards, and examples of these principles applied in real classrooms. The video components are paired with extensive Web sites that include online texts, course and workshop guides, and extensive background information to enhance the learning experience.

EduGains: http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/index.html

EduGAINS provides a wealth of resources to support Mathematics, Literacy, Differentiated Instruction, Assessment and Evaluation, English Language Learners and International Languages (Elementary). Go here to access video, web pages, and electronic copies of resources developed by or for the Ministry of Education including CLIPS (interactive web-based mathematics learning objects), STEP resources for ELL, the Think Literacy library, Growing Success with extensive video supports, etc.

TumbleBookLibrary: http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com

An online collection of animated, talking picture books created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

TumbleBookCloud: http://www.tumblebookcloud.com

An online collection of read-along titles for elementary, middle school, and high school students which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. Sentences are highlighted as they are being read and the pages turn automatically or manually. The collection features chapter books, graphic novels, early readers, YA/teen novels, high interest- low reading levels plus classics of American and English Literature.

YouTube

Given the changes in copyright law in Canada as of December 2012, any video on YouTube can now be shown in class for educational purposes. To save a video for screening in classes where there is no reliable internet connection, go to http://www.savetube.com and paste in the YouTube video so it can be downloaded for in-class screening.

See First Nations Films for other titles of interest.

Textbook producers are now making additional components of textbooks available online. The Education Library has purchased access to these and they may include an online copy of the student textbook, a teacher's resource guide that goes with the textbook, and additional materials such as assessment ideas and worksheets, images, PowerPoints, and even SMARTBoard lessons.

Nelson Mathematics 1 and 2 are not password protected sites: Mathematics 1 and Mathematics 2

Nelson Mathematics 3-8: http://mathk8.nelson.com/otr.html (get passwords in D2L). Click on Online Teacher Resource. FIles are downloadable. Complete copies of student text and teacher's guide.
 

TumbleBookLibrary: (get passwords in D2L) An online collection of animated, talking picture books created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in which you can read, or have read to you.

Search NoveList Plus, the online teacher resource for finding children’s books on a theme.  Go to the library home page http://library.queensu.ca >> click on the Databases tab >> type in novelist >> click on NoveList Plus >> search by topic or grade or theme.

You can access NoveList directly at the Knowledge Ontario website. Click on K-6 resources for the link. A great resource for all Ontario teachers.

Watch a demonstration of NoveList

High Water Press

Goodminds Distributors

Theytus Books

Gabriel Dumont Institute

Ningwakwe Learning Press

Pemmican Publications

Saskatchewan Indian Cultural centre

First Nations Films

Seven Generations

Northern Aboriginal Education Circle

Tree House Press

INAC

Anchor Canada

Kegedonce

Booklists on native history, children’s works, literature, poetry, maps: http://www.native-languages.org/nunavut.htm

You can access these from any public library page or from Queen's Library at http://library.queensu.ca/research/databases/subject/k-to-12-education-resources 

For professional development articles for teachers, follow these steps for Queen's resources:

Go to Queen's Library

Click on Connect from Off-Campus. Use your NetID. Click on Library Home.

Summon is the default search tool that is open. Types in your words. Once the results are listed, use the filters to restrict your serach to online resources.