Professional development and resources

Offord Centre for Child Studies: Online Resource Library for Teachers and School Professionals

Child and Youth Suicide Intervention and Prevention
The Education Network of Ontario and The Hospital for Sick Children, with funding support from The Office of Learning Technologies have joined together to develop this important project. The goal of this project is to help teachers and other school based professionals to understand, to identify and reduce risk for suicide with our young people.

The Mainstreaming Handbook: How to be an advocate for your special needs students
By Deborah Coughlin
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 2000
Format: 150 pp.
ISBN: 0 325 00226 6

This is a handbook for classroom teachers with students who don’t necessarily qualify for special services, but need special help nonetheless. You face the challenge of meeting their needs plus the needs of your other students. The Mainstreaming Handbook proves it is possible. Deborah Coughlin has never been trained in special education: she is a classroom teacher retracing the processes and questions that guided her efforts to advocate and accommodate the special-needs students in her classroom.

What About Me?: Strategies for Teaching Misunderstood Learners
Christopher Lee
Rosemary Jackson
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 2001
Format: 166 pp.
ISBN: 0 325 00348 3

In What About Me? Lee combines his special insight with Jackson’s expertise as a special education trainer to offer specific help to teachers and parents of other misunderstood learners. It is a practical yet personal book on how to help special learners grow into self-sufficient, responsible adults who can recognize their strengths and manage their weaknesses.

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar, Steven Zemelman, Deborah Meier
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 2001
Format: , 300 pp.
ISBN: 0 325 00324 6

Rethinking High School is organized around eleven fundamental choices all secondary schools must make. The book serves as a checklist, an agenda, and a study guide for high school reform. Instead of dictating right answers, the authors pose key questions and recount a range of creative alternatives developed by schools around the country. By offering this rich array of stories and models, the book speaks directly to readers who wish to improve existing high schools, break

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Action
Steven Zemelman,Harvey Daniels, Marilyn Bizar,
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: 1999
Format:
ISBN: 0 325 00195 2

In this videotape, Zemelman, Daniels, and Bizar take us directly into the classrooms of Best Practice High School, where real kids and teachers co-create a rich curriculum and supportive community.

What to Do With the Kid Who? : Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom
Kay Burke
Publisher: Skylight
Copyright: 2000
Format: 294 pp.
ISBN: 1 57517 344 1

Burke offers both new and veteran teachers updated strategies to meet the critical challenges of today’s diverse classrooms. This book features the latest research on classroom management, violence prevention, emotional intelligence, inclusion, and cooperative learning. It provides more than 200 specific teaching strategies to help students regulate their own behaviour, resolve their own conflicts, and celebrate their own learning.

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