Ontario Curriculum

Curriculum and Policy: Ontario Ministry of Education

This site provides full-text access to elementary and secondary curriculum, policy and reference documents. There are links to related education sites.

Curriculum Services Canada

Curriculum Services Canada is the Pan-Canadian standards agency for quality assurance in learning resources.

Ontario College of Teachers

The Ontario College of Teachers sets and enforces ethical standards and practices for teachers. College publications are available via their site, including their magazine Professionally Speaking.

Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner (OCUP)

The Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner is a software application and resource library on CD-ROM that supports Ontario teachers in designing, sharing, adapting, and managing instructional units, profiles, and resources. The Web site provides access to several resources, including check sheets, teacher companions, planner help kits, etc. Note that under Units there are sample curriculum units for teachers of single and combined grade classes, grades 1 to 8 in the areas of Mathematics, Science and Technology and Social Studies, History, and Geography. The curriculum units are considered to be resources written by teachers for teachers. The units were written using the Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner. Accessibility to the units in electronic format provides teachers with the opportunity to adapt the units to meet local needs (e.g., delivery in a combined and/or multi-grade class). They are available both in PDF and formats needed to be used with the Planner CD-ROM. The secondary school profiles posted here are provided for download in Planner-editable format (by teachers using the Planner). PDF format are available via the Ontario Curriculum Centre (see above).

Trillium List

The Trillium List contains the titles of those textbooks approved by the Minister of Education for use in Ontario schools. The textbooks named on the Trillium List have been subjected to a rigorous evaluation in accordance with the criteria specified in Section 4 of Guidelines for Approval of Textbooks.

Ontario Educational Resources Selection Sites

National Book Service

National Book Service is a Canadian wholesaler of print, video and audio along with cataloguing and processing services to members of the academic, school and public library community. They are not licensed to sell to the general public. Because their site is specifically geared towards educators and librarians their online catalogues and special bibliographies are arranged by school ages and descriptions of items include suggested grade levels. They have a store in Toronto that local school boards send their school librarians to for purchasing of materials.

Ontario Institutions With Education Faculties and Libraries

 

Brock University

In keyword search mode you can limit to location, including the IRC Faculty of Education Collection.

Education Resource Centre at York University

In Advanced Search mode have several limiters by type of materials.

Lakehead University

Can use Advanced Search and limit to Education Library.

Queen's University

Go to QCAT under Research Tools. Use More Search Limits option to limit to Education Library. The Education Library has an online guides to resources by subject. For any print title you think might be useful check TOPCAT to see if we have a copy in our collection.

UOIT

Click on Library Catalogue and limit campus to Education Library.

University of Ottawa

Use the Location limiter in keyword mode to search just the Learning Resource Centre of the Faculty of Education.

University of Toronto

Click on Library Catalogue and go into advanced search so you can limit to OISE resources.

University of Windsor

Can use Limits to just search the CRC (Curriculum Resource Centre) collection.

Publishers of Educational Resources

 

Corwin Books

A Sage Publications company. Corwin focuses on publishing professional development books for teachers.

Groundwood Books

Groundwood Books, established in 1978, is dedicated to the production of children's books for all ages, including fiction, picture books and non-fiction. They publish in Canada, the United States and Latin America. Their primary focus has been on works by Canadians.

Harcourt

Publisher of materials for primary through adult education. They are now being distributed in Canada by Thomsom Nelson Learning.

Heinemann Library

Publisher of non-fiction resources for the classroom. The material is geared for U.S. curriculum standards.

Heinemann/Raintree Classroom

Publisher of non-fiction resources for the classroom. The material is geared for U.S. curriculum standards.

Raintree

Publisher of non-fiction resources for the classroom. The material is geared for U.S. curriculum standards.

McGraw-Hill Ryerson

Publisher of materials for primary through higher education.

Oxford University Press Canada

The Education Division offers a wide range of resources, from Kindergarten through to grade 12, in the areas of Early Literacy, Social Studies, History, Geography, English Language Arts, Humanities, Economics, World Religions, Reference and French-As-A-Second Language.

Pearson Education Canada

Publisher of materials for primary through higher education. Distributor for Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall.

Pembroke Publishers

Publisher of materials for primary through higher education.

Psychology Press

Part of the Taylor and Francis Group. Publishers of books in psychology, including educational psychology.

Routledge Education

Routledge focuses on the post-secondary market. Routledge Education has titles covering educational theory and practice.

Scholastic Canada

Publisher of materials for primary education.

S&S Learning Materials

Publisher of materials for primary education.

Thomson Nelson Learning

Canadian publisher of materials for primary through higher education. Now Canadian distributors for Harcourt.

Peterborough Area Board of Education Resource Centres

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board Learning Resource Centre

Definitely a "must visit" for any KPRDSB teacher or Trent Teacher Candidate being placed in KPRDSB. Their collection is catalogued. MEDIANET is their online booking system. Teacher Candidates should contact their placements and make plans to have materials booked by their teacher supervisor.

 

Association Publications

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

The Association (founded in 1981) is an international, educational and professional not-for profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Publisher of Educational Leadership and Journal of Curriculum and Supervision. They also have a good selection of books on various aspects of curriculum development.

Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario

See the Publications, Papers and Briefs section for listings of their materials.

International Society for Technology in Education

Publisher of Learning and Leading with Technology and JCTE: Journal of Computing in Teacher Education. They also books on integrating technology in education.

Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association

See the online Book Store and Publications section.

 

 

Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation

Science Teachers' Association of Ontario

Trent teacher candidates have access to STAO publications via their website.

 

 

General Education Sites

 

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library

This is a searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).

 

 

The Education Resources Index

Provides over 3,000 links to education resources in 66 categories by subject or by life stage such as preschoolers, college students, etc.

Educator's Reference Desk

This site replaces the AskERIC site due to a decision by the U.S. Department of Education to overhaul the ERIC system. You can still access things like resource guides, lesson plans and the ERIC database via this site.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

NODE:Ontario's Network for Learning

The NODE/RÉDO is a network linking post-secondary course and program developers, faculty, administrators and learners interested in technologically-mediated teaching and learning. The prime focus is on the needs and interests of post-secondary distance educators and learners.

Te Kete Ipurangi - The Online Learning Centre

TKI is a bilingual portal and web community which provides quality-assured educational material for teachers, school managers, and the wider education community. It is an initiative of the Ministry of Education, New Zealand.

 

History Teaching Sites

Canada Year Book Historical Collection

View the Canada Year Book online from 1867 to 1967. They are snap shots of Canada's social, political and economic history.

Ontario Time Machine

This site was developed to support grades 7 and 8 students studying history from 1759 to World War I.

Lesson Plans

Lesson Planning Sites by Subject

Lakehead University Education Library links to lesson plans.

University of Western Ontario Education Library Links to Lesson Plans

UWO's Education Library's links to lesson plans.

Archives, museums, government, non-governmental and non-profit groups

These sorts of groups can be wonderful classroom resources, and they often have lesson plans on their Web sites. Examples are the Archives of Ontario and lesson plans from selected Canadian museums.

 

 

E-Books
		Mental Measurements Yearbook
		xreferplus An online collection of 100 reference books
General Reference Books
		Acquiring and organizing curriculum materials   LB 3044.72 .L37 1997 REF
		Brief reference of student disabilities-- with strategies for the classroom   LC 4031 .N53 2002 REF
		The children's literature dictionary : definitions, resources, and teaching activities   PN 1008.5 .L38 2002 REF
		Commonwealth universities yearbook  LB 2310 .Y5 REF (latest)
		The cyclopedic education dictionary   LB 15 .S73 1998 REF
		The dictionary of characters in children's literature   PN 1008.5 .D53 2002 REF
		Dictionary of multicultural education  LC 1099 .D53 1997 REF
		The directory of Canadian schools   L 905 .D566 2002 REF
		Directory of Canadian universities   L 905 .C45 36th ed. 2002 REF
		Education and sociology : an encyclopedia   LC 189.95 .E38 2002 REF
		The encyclopaedia of school stories   PR 830 .E38 E54 2000 REF
		Encyclopedia of special education : a reference for the education of the handicapped and other exceptional children and adults   LC 4007 .E53 2000 REF
		Guide to the successful thesis and dissertation : a handbook for students and faculty   LB 2369 .M377 1998 REF
		Health problems in the classroom, preK-6 : an A-Z reference guide for educators   LB 3409 .U5 H84 2003 REF
		International handbook of educational evaluation   LB 2822.75 .I563 2003 REF
		The Mental measurements yearbook  BF 176 .B9 REF
		Music in every classroom : a resource guide for integrating music across the curriculum, grades K-8   ML 128 .S25 S66 1998 REF
		Peterson's annual guides to graduate study   L 901 .P46 31st ed. 1997 REF
		Philosophy of education : an encyclopedia   LB 17 .P485 1996 REF
		Study abroad  LB 2338 . S86 REF (latest 2 eds)
		UNESCO Statistical yearbook   AZ 361 .U45 REF (latest 3 years)
		Well said, well spoken : 736 quotable quotes for educators   PN 6081 .W383 2001 REF
		The World of learning   AS 2 .W6 49th ed. 1999 REF
Bibliographies
		Education : a guide to reference and information sources  Z 5811 .B89 2000 REF
		Multiculturalism in academe : a sourcebook   Z 5814 .M86 M67 1996 REF
		The professional collection for elementary educators   Z 675 .P3 W55 1996 REF
		Teaching information literacy concepts : activities and frameworks from the field   Z 711.2 .T433 2001 REF
		World bibliography on international comparative adult education, 1945-1995  Z 5814 .A24 K85 1996 REF